So I spent most of the day beating my head against the wall, trying to make the html version of the Exile's Burn ebook. I want to offer it at least in PDF and html, and I'm going to try to convert to Plucker, PalmDoc, iSilo, and anything I can either figure out or have someone else do for me. Anyway, you'd think html would be simple, except for trying to convert out of Word, which loads down html with all sorts of unnecessary crapola. Dreamweaver has a function to strip some of the junk out, but unfortunately it wants to bomb when it comes to large files. To make a long story short, I spent several hours yesterday and today trying to make the file a reasonable size, with only necessary coding. My progress was incremental, until it occurred to me to open the file in TextEdit and save it from there...and voila!!!

In other news, I submitted my BAFII story, tentatively titled "Desperate Feast."

I uploaded the files to Lulu this afternoon, so in a couple of weeks I should have the proofs for the Exile's Burn print versions. Hopefully everything will look good, and I won't have to scramble to fix anything in time to have the books available in December (for those who want a print version, that is--the ebook will always be free).

I'm such a slacker. :sigh: Mainly, I've been getting ready for NaNoWriMo by doing research and trying to catch up on Exile's Burn so I don't have to spend part of November on that. My plan has worked out pretty well--I'm on a roll with EB, having gotten about three chapters done since the beginning of October. I'm going to keep on until November, so maybe I'll actually be ahead for once!

For NaNo, I'll be working on Darkworld, which is set in the EB universe, although on the other side of Zatvian space from where EB takes place. More on that as it develops, and I plan to post my daily word count here and on MySpace. :-)

The arm is coming along nicely. They removed the cast and pulled the pin out last week. Now I'm in a splint for the next couple of weeks, which is designed so I still have to type one-handed, but the end is in sight!

I finally finished the next chapter of Exile's Burn, after rewriting the beginning twice. I don't know what my problem was this month. Sigh.

And I got a wonderful new review for Prince of Ash!

Chapter 28 of Exile's Burn is now uploaded for your viewing pleasure.

I also have some new wallpaper up, featuring Pooka from Prince of Ash.

I finished the latest chapter of Exile's Burn, unless my husband has a major problem with it during the test read. :-) I just have to say that I did not see the end of this one coming! Iluka pulled a fast one on me, darn her. Now I have to figure out how to work this twist in along with everything else I have coming up.

In other news, I'll be working on galleys for the next couple of days, so I might be scarce online. :-)