{"id":115,"date":"2021-10-12T19:28:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T19:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/?p=115"},"modified":"2021-10-12T19:28:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T19:28:31","slug":"it-has-been-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"It has been published&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve had these icons on my desktop for about three years now&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alexenders.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/desktop.jpg?resize=133%2C499&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116\" width=\"133\" height=\"499\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See the &#8220;Kindle Create&#8221; and the &#8220;calibre&#8221; icons? Kindle Create is Amazon&#8217;s tool for making ebook format files out of your Word document file. Calibre is the open source version of the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although I did some fiddling around in Calibre, I ultimately chickened out and went with Kindle Create. Calibre offers a few more bells and whistles and more formatting choices, but I just saw those as a risk: the bells and whistles just made it more likely that I would get it WRONG and it wouldn&#8217;t work across ebook formats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Formatting an ebook from a properly formatted Word file is pretty easy, once you know what to do (I learned that one the hard way with Skywriting in 2013). Formatting a book for print is an utter pain in the ass, but the advantage is that, after you&#8217;ve done all the typesetting, pagination, margin control, headers, and page numbers, you submit a PDF document to Amazon &#8212; so you know exactly what the book is going to look like. I find that reassuring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book is technically available for pre-order now, but I&#8217;m not fully advertising it yet because I&#8217;m still waiting for the cover art to come back. When I have THAT in hand, I&#8217;ll feel better about advertising and marketing &#8230; and revealing the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had these icons on my desktop for about three years now&#8230; See the &#8220;Kindle Create&#8221; and the &#8220;calibre&#8221; icons? Kindle Create is Amazon&#8217;s tool for making ebook format files out of your Word document file. Calibre is the open source version of the same. Although I did some fiddling around in Calibre, I ultimately &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/?p=115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It has been published&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}