OUT OF ALL HOOPING

[pameladean]

I have, not exactly in my hand right now, but very near by, and honestly I think I might sleep with it under my pillow, the termination paperwork for The Dubious Hills AND the cancelled and as-yet unpublished sequel to Hills, that is, the work sometimes known as Going North.

This has been imminent for some weeks now and I have been trying to figure out what to do. I will let you guys know as soon as I have.

What I can say is that Going North needs to be re-expanded, not to its former two-volume length, but by perhaps 20,000 words; that probably not all of them will be words that I have already written; and that I am very well, indeed painfully, aware that people have been waiting for far, far too long for this book; so I will do my best to be expeditious.

One might well ask why I didn't do the revisions while I was awaiting the paperwork, but I can only say that they had not come properly into focus, and in fact I needed to write a short story first to get things to line up or clear up or whatever this analogy thinks it is doing just now. I would apologize for my creative process, but that wouldn't make it any less annoying.

Pamela

Comments

[pameladean]

I don't blame you for wondering!

And yes, I certainly am.

P.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

Well, I can promise you one sale.

[pameladean]

Thank you!

P.

[dejla.livejournal.com]

I can promise you 2. I think my roommate is teetering on pins and needles waiting for it -- but we will both be patient and wait for the process to wind its way through the canyons of your life.

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

I don't know what kind of manuscript format you're using, but I've got a well-tested mechanism for turning plain text files with minimal inline markup (_italics_ sort of thing; block quotes, bold, chapter divisions and speakers or title) into nice valid EPUB 3.0. Takes seconds.

I mention this in case it might prove useful.

[pameladean]

I'm using LibreOffice, which I don't actually understand very well, but I'm not sure how things will end up. Will bear your mechanism in mind; thank you very much.

P.

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

You're most welcome!

At the present time, per this handy documentation (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/EPUB/Converting_ODF_to_EPUB), there are a diversity of mechanisms that can do from Libre Office to EPUB.

(I'd much rather write in vim and process to EPUB with XSLT, but there may not be anyone else on earth of whom that is true.)