making print on demand files

I spent most of yesterday (work-time, anyway) turning the ORRSP and Year of Miracles into a POD for my non-e-reader family members. With a few minor exceptions that I may not be able to defeat because I’m using Open Office instead of a Proper Layout Program, I’m quite happy with it. In another life, this is what I do for a living. The exceptions, in case anybody knows how to fix them, are as follows: – I’d like the page numbering/headers to not start until the first page of the…

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ORSSP: Complete!

The last Old Races e-book collection, AFTERMATH, has now been published! This collection has one reprint, “Perchance to Dream”, a Janx story also available in the anthology DRAGON’S LURE. It has the ORSSP stories “Awakening” and “Aftermath” (which was the surprise bonus story for ORSSP patrons who subscribed to the ORSSP in the first 5 months of 2011). The other two stories, “Betrayals” and “Choices,” are brand-new. Margrit Knight has broken the long-held covenants of the Old Races. Ancient rivals are scattered, friendships are broken, and the dragons, djinn, selkies,…

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almost done…

I’ve got one more short story to deliver for the NO DOMINION patrons, and then a small handful of other things (the limited edition print run, the calendar, and *bemused* a performance of “Wind Beneath My Wings”) to wrap up. Now that I’m reaching the end of this project, the crazy part of me is looking back on this and thinking “It has been SO! MUCH! FUN! Let’s DO ANOTHER ONE!” In, you know. My copious free time. :) But it really has been a lot of fun, and I’d…

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a monstrous beast

I need a new … well. Printer/scanner thing. One that ideally prints up to 8×10 color photos as well as has a 50+ppm b&w text print speed and automatically, no human interference required, will print double-sided pages. I want the scanner quality–well, what I /want/ is for it to be a high quality extra large bed scanner like they used to make in about 1998 before they realized they could charge a huge amount more for that kind of thing because the only people who really need scanners that size…

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woohoo!

I’ve been given the all-clear to post the MOUNTAIN ECHOES cover! Holy crap, guys! Penultimate Walker Papers book! (And damn, I wish I’d thought of saying RAVEN CALLS was the antepenultimate book when it came out, ’cause I love that word. :))