April 25th, 2012

Writing in InDesign is the only sensible choice for writers in the new paradigm of on-demand self-publishing

The greatly expanded and rewritten Writing In InDesign Second Edition has been released Buy it Now!

Versions available so far

Spiral-bound premium workbook $19.99 7×10 perfect-bound paperback $17.99 Kindle (with embedded fonts for Fire) $7.99 (Available in the Kindle Lending Library)

What started as a relatively small update turned into a large scale revision when I began adapting

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April 23rd, 2012

InDesign CS6 is all about promises for the future…

There are many exciting things to be found in the new version of InDesign. But if you read carefully, most of them are focused on an unspecified future where ePUB3 and HTML5 /CSS3 are the normal standards of ebook publishing. They are not now. In fact, there is no ePUB3 reader in common use at

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November 7th, 2011

Christian Thriller: Spitzer Hafen by Randall Franklin

When I received my review copy from the author, I was a little concerned.

My experience with Christian thrillers has often been boredom.

As I started reading it, I was immediately drawn into the story. My only concern originally was that the evil dudes weren’t nasty enough, but they were truly horrid as I got

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October 3rd, 2011

A look at the ebook revolution: known & unknown

Four years into the ebook revolution: things we know and things we don’t know – The Shatzkin Files.

I received a link to this from Joel this morning. It’s a good review and an eye-opener, if you haven’t been paying attention.

Mike says: “One could say (and I would) that the ereading revolution is coming

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August 23rd, 2011

Forcing InDesign to write acceptable CSS

Sometimes I feel so stupid. The solution to the incomplete CSS in exported ePUBs is so much more simple than I thought. Your mind just seems to turn a little corner and the solution pops up in front of you.

My beef with InDesign CS5.5′s ePUBs was the need to edit the CSS

I’ve posted

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