I mentioned earlier that I'd be tweaking the formats of "Spireclaw" and "The Daedalus Transfer" to make them display better on eBook readers. I've uploaded the new versions and they're accessible via the existing PDF links on my website. The pages are now 6x9 inches, and they have linked contents pages. The font size is 12pt, so all should be good now... I hope.
I woke up early this morning on my 50th birthday. It was as bright outside as it would ever be at 5am due to it being the summer solstice, the longest period of daylight time. From here on, the nights get longer. Sitting in bed with a cup of tea I started to think about some of the first stories I wrote, and a few memories came back to me. The first thing I remember writing was in my penultimate year in primary school, so we're talking 1983-4. Successfully combining two major phobias of mine, it was called "Tarantursnake" and took up a whopping four pages of my English workbook. I remember getting a decent mark for it, but the only thing I could remember from the story itself was a man hanging on for dear life to a pole suspended over a pit of tarantursnakes. In fact, that may have been the whole thing. I'm not so sure it followed any conventional rules of narrative. Later, in 1987, in high school, a collection of us smuggled copies of the newly published paperback of
Thx for the update but could you please add more formats for example mobi, html, txt, etc etc. Check out this site www.mobileread.com for all your ebook questions.
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Clive
Thanks Clive,
ReplyDeleteIn response to your comment I have created HTML and TXT versions of the two novels.
I had a try at making MOBI versions but ran into a few problems. What I suggest is that if anyone wants to convert the existing texts into other formats, please go ahead, but please send me a copy of the file so I can add it to the website for others to download. I will gladly credit you as the file creator/convertor.
Hi Huw,
ReplyDeleteIf you could send me the html version of the two books I'll give it a try at converting them in different formats.
My addy is gibbothegreat@gmail.gi
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Clive, I sent you the HTML versions after you added your comment but the email has just come back to me, with the error: Message will be retried for 2 more day(s). Technical details of temporary failure: DNS Error: Domain name not found.
ReplyDeleteDo you have another address I could use?