Is Tottenham a little village? Some one involved in the literature festival was a friend of a friend of mine, an ex-colleague of another friend and the colleague of another, although none of us knew about these connections until yesterday. [Link to the festival’s page]
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Tina
Tina
Tina is very opinionated and she likes writing. The result is a great conversationalist and an excellent writer.
She has written so much and so well, that she is now a paid columnist as a result, and she has already written inspirational , enraging, well-researched, enlightening and always interesting, reasonable pieces that makes one think.
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Steps to self-publish
More than a how-to, this is how I did it, in small scale, without big corporations, or at least doing it at minimum cost, paying some one else to do things I absolutely could not do myself.
Electronic publication epub: the e-book
I have now converted my book to electronic format.
Some say pdf is the ‘de facto’ format for electronic publication. It can be used for computers on all platforms.
However for other devices like mobile phones or tablets, it seems the EPUB format is better or more useful. I read a few manuals and ‘how to’s but somehow they all turned up to be over complicated, so here is a more simple how to convert to epub.
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Burnt books and cleaning – Freedom Bookshop clean-up report
I fist learned about the Freedom bookshop being firebombed via email. They had heard it either from twitter or facebook. Funny how these things spread so quick these days. People were already complaining that USA outlets were informing about it while there was no coverage at all in UK press, see: Washington Post, International Times, Huffington Post.
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Book on Palestine now out
After a little bit of networking and a bigger bit of biking, my book is now printed, and available in 56a and Freedom Bookshops, and through Active Distribution.
I have been most moved by the review published there, which goes on to add the ones I have already pasted on the book page itself.
Now the task is to make it into an ebook using either Ubuntu or Linux Mint.
Done.
NaNoWriMo is over and now I have about 52k words worth of trash – or at least prose-in-much-need-of-heavy-editing.
Some of it is readable, thought:
https://network23.org/fromfairtrade/
I will continue to update that (or another blog with a more appropriate title) with one or a few more characters.
NaNoWriMo
So, I have signed up for NaNoWriMo. I do not intend to write a fully finished novel by the end of the month, but at least I will have a serious first part in preparation for a first draft.
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LibreOffice styles – for a “book feeling”
I wanted my book to look like proper, published book. Some published books have the title of the chapter on each page, and I find this quite useful.
It was rewarding but a royal pain to attain this with OpenOffice, then LibreOffice. I am not sure I will [even try to] achieve that for my next book (yes, there is another one), but here are some of the steps I followed.