Comments on: I know it’s a lot to ask, but…

By: Kauket

Kauket — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:49:30 +0000

My personal favorite for creating an ebook from Word/HTML is http://www.mobipocket.com/en/downloadsoft/ProductDetailsCreator.asp. Free and very easy to use. Fine tuning and conversion to more formats is done with http://calibre-ebook.com/, as others have recommended.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:52:24 +0000

Just chiming in to echo the recommendation above for Sigil and Calibre. Sigil if needed for actual editing, Calibre for conversion type stuff. I’ve used both to get things into Epub format. I’d say start with Calibre and if you need to do something you can’t do in Calibre, open up Sigil :)
-Ben

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:29:23 +0000

Thank you very much, Tyrsalt.

What I’m trying to do right now is get the next big portion of Terin’s current story line done and posted, and THEN do a PDF/Kindle/Ebook thing with it. That’ll give me some mental space to keep going.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:27:50 +0000

No need to apologise, I still need to email you.

If you’re looking for a couple of descriptions of the two main characters currently in the story, I wrote and linked to descriptions that can be found in the main index, or alternately here;

Baron Terin Trendel: http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/09/03/pbem-addendum-terins-description/

Lauchlin MacQuarrie: http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/09/03/pbem-addendum-lauchlins-description/

Regardless of what you’d like to do, I’d be delighted to have a chance to see some of your artwork, simply to enjoy it. I always like seeing the things people create. My email is thebigbearbutt@gmail.com

By: Tyrsalt

Tyrsalt — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:35:42 +0000

As someone mentioned above. Copy the text to a word format and use Bullzip PDF Printer to get it to pdf form. Then download Stanza for desktop and you can convert the .pdf into a kindle format, epub, or just about any other format. I get most of my reading material as .pdf’s and use this method to get it to proper digital format. I could probably even do it for you and email you the digital format. It should only take a couple of hours.

By: Roseqwartz

Roseqwartz — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:22:09 +0000

Would you mind if i sifted through the story to find some of the descriptions of characters, or if you are able to send some, so i could do some rough concepts. My overall dream so to speak is to do a comic or a series of comics, but i haven’t got a literary bone in my body.

If you want i can scan in and send you some of my work, either some little one page comics like i did when you had the bearwall about the email ages ago. Or i can send you some of my character designs on my own.

If i’m appearing need i apologize, I’ve just been looking for a writer.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:53:18 +0000

Actually, manny and I had always envisioned this as a graphic novel or anime style story, about the scenes and imagery as much as the written story.

We simply don’t know any artists ourselves, and every artist I do meet have always seemed to be drawn far more into bringing their own ideas to life than to be in a long-term project like creating a graphic novel or webcomic, especially a project where the story that is advancing the plot is being written by someone else.

By: Roseqwartz

Roseqwartz — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:07:55 +0000

I assume that you are wanting this to be a regular book, as opposed to a graphic novel available for download. I only bring that up because i’ve read several parts of the story and instantly thought, “That would be awesome draw.” At which point the images can be saved as a format for mobile devices in a similar fashion to text…i believe.

Just a thought, If you like it hit me up a Bakaryuustudios at gmail.com

By: ursiheil

ursiheil — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:02:34 +0000

I guess I could take a crack at the actual formatting and so forth if you’d like… I’m working on my Aberrant New World of Darkness conversion… but your book would be a piece of cake comparably ;)

Drop me a message if you want some help. You got a few choices…

By: Sarriss (@facemauler)

Sarriss (@facemauler) — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:12:23 +0000

I also advise Calibre. It’s great for collating elements into an ebook format, adding covers, loading metadata etc. If you want a tool to edit in the ebook (epub) format, take a look at Sigil. Its a bit of a learning curve to start but pretty powerful once you get going with it. GL BBB :-)