I’ve done most of the heavy lifting to convert the book into an e-book, with the usual problems that crop up once again cropping up.
So, here’s the thing: I write novels in Word. I’ve used Scrivener before, and it was fine, but the process of taking a Scrivener file in 2017 and converting it into an ebook was like pulling teeth. It was great for writing, but as soon as you wanted to do anything with what you wrote it was pure hell. The program has been around long enough now that I’m pretty sure they’ve fixed (or at least improved) that part of it, but gods, it was hell trying to actually do anything with the novel after I was finished.
Solution? Easy. Just use Word. Then take the Word document, transfer it over to an html/text editor, do all the fancy HTML-things that you need to do, and poof, e-book all ready to go.
And I’ve done that!
But my most trustworthy and diligent beta reader has now gotten back to me with a few more typos (gods, save me from typos). Which means I have to edit 2 different documents: the HTML-edited file to be converted into an e-book (which then means re-uploading the e-book), and the Word document itself so that if I want to make a paperback of the book I have a clean version to do that.
It’s a lot of very careful edits done very slowly so I make sure that they’re correct in all the places the book will eventually show up.
But the important part: almost done! WOOOO!
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!