Oolite Bulletins

I can hardly believe it myself but I finally managed to finish it.

All I have to do is have a couple of proof reads, write the epilogue and thanks list and soon you will have a new 53,000 word, 20 chapter piece of OOfic to enjoy.

It's been a long time, about a year and a half in the making, but it will be released soon.

After release and when you've all had a chance to read and digest it, I hope to do a radio show in the style of Gravity Waves to help give a little sonic texture to the story and the main character.

Thanks to all who helped me on this.


Marc

maaarcooose wrote:

... I hope to do a radio show in the style of Gravity Waves to help give a little sonic texture to the story and the main character.

Excellent idea! I too had a soundtrack in mind for the currently-stalled wip, but I abandoned the idea eventually.

Still waiting for Mostly Deadly...!

Despite the callings of RL, I have finally finished my last proof read and to be honest I just want it out there.

I will be releasing this as soon as humanly possible, hopefully this week.

If anyone fancies making me a cover for it I would be eternally grateful.

Just trying to find some good epub software now.


The stupid thing is, I already have 2 more that I have started.

!m!

Calibre is your friend for ebook construction.

Cheers,

Drew.

drew wrote:

Calibre is your friend for ebook construction.

Cheers,

Drew.

I thought you would know a good one. I was about to PM you about that.

!m!

maaarcooose wrote:

The stupid thing is, I already have 2 more that I have started.

It doesn't stop, even when you release one (and I know that feeling of 'just want it out there')... the next character is waiting!

maaarcooose wrote:

If anyone fancies making me a cover for it I would be eternally grateful.

Any thoughts on what you'd like, or should I just read it first?

Diziet Sma wrote:

maaarcooose wrote:

If anyone fancies making me a cover for it I would be eternally grateful.

Any thoughts on what you'd like, or should I just read it first?

I think just go for it cold. I'll put anything good in the file.

Main possible things for the cover are:
The Elite rating.
Red haired woman in expensive clothes covered in blood (See first chapter post).
An exploding Copperhead ship.
A Cobra MK3, white paintwork, with black lines on each edge and sword decals on the 'wings'.

!m!

Sounds like weekend reading is sorted then.

Cheers,

Drew.

maaarcooose wrote:

Just trying to find some good epub software now.

I can recommend writer2epub, an extension for OpenOffice, for generating good clean ePub files with ready-made contents lists, metadata etc.

Thanks for the recomemdation of Calibre.
That's exactly the kind of program I was looking for.

I tried a couple of others and they were a bit crap at formatting the text.
Calibre just left it as is.

I would use the OpenOffice one but I'm afraid I'm using word 2011 on my Mac.
Yes, yes. I know I should be more open source like but it works and I love the full screen mode editor.

I shall get the main text released and then put a cover on later.
I've been trying to pursuade my wife to pose with a gun for the cover, but she's not keen.

Anyway....

!m!

maaarcooose wrote:

I've been trying to pursuade my wife to pose with a gun for the cover, but she's not keen.

Bribery tends to work best.. flowers.. a night out.. a nice outfit..