Frustration in OD

I’ve decided to go ahead with the book thing. I’ve installed the Kindle app on my phone, as well as one that lets me read .pub files.

Thankfully Scrivener does the formatting for me so that’s less of a worry.

(I really hope I can scrape together the $40 I need for the full Scrivener license, cos I’ve only got 21 days left on the trial and I don’t wanna go back to using Word for my stories.)

I’m even getting cover art done. The person in question is extremely talented and has agreed to do it for nowt.

Sadly, I can’t compile from Scrivener quite yet, because I need to install another program first. This program is currently sitting on my phone memory card. I don’t have an adaptor to plug it into, have yet to get a cable to connect my phone to the laptop and, because my phone won’t recognise the file type, I can’t bluetooth it.

It also turns out that the official gmail android app will only let me email pics as attachments. I thought this was because my phone is old but it turns out it’s supposed to be like that.

Also, may have to ditch the pdf idea. Even with 12 stories, it’ll be about 35 pages long. Not sure how comfortable I feel about charging even £1 for that.

From what I’ve seen, page count matters less with Kindles and .epub files.

Someone in my last entry made a good point about needing a good editor/proofreader. Unfortunately, it looks like that’ll be me. I got lucky with the cover, but not sure I’ll be able to find someone to edit/proofread for just a copy of the finished book.

Incidentally, any of you with a Kindle or a Nook/other device that reads .pub files, I’ll need someone to let me know how it looks on a full grown device, not just my phone. Again, payment will be a copy of the finished book.

Remind me again, why was I mad enough to try this?

Will