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T-14 Days: Thanks, I think

September 21, 2011 by Steven Savage

As everyone knows I go through Lulu for most of my physical books and for ePub and PDF format. For Kindle, of course I go through Amazon. It's how I did Fan To Pro, Convention Career Convention, and the Best-Of Books.

So I'm going to release "Focused Fandom: Cosplay, Costuming, and Careers"

So here I am, and now? Lulu has some new ePub converters and such available for iBookstore and Nook distribution.

I should be happy. Hell, I've loved what Smashwords did with Meatgrinder. But . . .

Now I have a question. Do I do the ePub myself or try their converter?

See this will make my life easy – except to see if it WILL I have to try it out, and then if it's close-but-not-quite, I have to decide how much time to put into it.

Here's somethign to remember if you're self-published; things are changing. Rapidly. YOU will need to keep up on them and pace yourself.

Me? I gotta find another spare 2-3 hours to try this thing out . . .

– Steven Savage

T-26 Days: Open Your Office

September 8, 2011 by Steven Savage

26 Days Until Cosplay, Costuming, and Careers,

So I'm facing converting a book of 180+ pages if it was my usual 6"x9" print book to three e-formats: Kindle, ePub, and PDF.

Pretty much this means Open Office.

Focused Fandom: Cosplay and Costuming – T-29 Days – Formatting

September 5, 2011 by Steven Savage

Well Rob and his wife just launched their webcomic, and now it's time for a countdown of my own!

I've been working on a book on cosplay, costuming, and careers the last two months, and will be launching it as an ebook at http://www.focusedfandom.com/book-cosplay.html on October 4th or thereabouts (sometimes the file uploads get a bit tricky). So youre going to be getting assorted random updates as I go through this process. You've been warned.

So what is this? Basically an ebook on how people can use costuming and cosplay in their careers, from finding a profession to finding ways it improves them professionally.