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Part 3 – Building Your Storefront
This is the final step of my 3 part (and one introduction) series on setting up your own shop of digital short fiction. It’s much shorter and easier than the other parts. You’ll need the links to your products that were generated by FetchApp in the previous step. A thing to bear in mind This…
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Part 2 – Setting Up Your Online Shop
We’re onto Part 2 of our exciting adventure. The amusing header image here is courtesy of http://onlyhdwallpapers.com Time to Build a Shop By now you should have a handful of short stories converted into .epub, or at the very least one short story, from Part 1. If not, that’s cool, too. Stick around, and, uh,…
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Part 1 – Dance with me: Converting a Word .doc into clean HTML for ePub
Well, how could you resist an article with such a sexy, non-technical title? Part 1 – Converting a .doc file into clean HTML To go back to the main article, click here. Introduction The first part of our walkthrough is the hardest: finding a story you can sell. I’ve chosen to sell only previously published…
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Selling Your Shorts All By Your Lonesome
And no, I don’t mean pants. People! Honestly. This is a serious blog. I use swears sometimes. Introduction Books are complicated beasts. Books need legitimacy, and legitimacy is an ISBN. That’s a way for people to order your book. It files you in the Great Big Library in the Cloud. There’s no such unique code…
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I love Hue – A Requirements Specification (Addendum to the Hue Review)
[Update Feb 15, 2014: As time has progressed most of this specification is now redundant. The Hue doesn’t yet manage animations on the Bridge, and I’m not sure it will in the near future, but the rest of it is pretty thorough. I’ll leave this article up for historical purposes, but beware it’s mostly redundant…
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It’s not Me, It’s Hue (The Hue Review, Part 2)
[Update! As of early January 2014, I have added a follow up review here] [Update! If you just want to buy the best Hue controller app for iOS, get iConnectHue and don’t look back. I wouldn’t use my Hue system without it.] In part 1 I revealed the Secrets They Won’t Tell Hue and some of the…
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It’s not Me, It’s Hue (The Hue Review, Part 1)
[Update! As of early January 2014, I have added a follow up review here] [Update! If you just want to buy the best Hue controller app for iOS, get iConnectHue and don’t look back. I wouldn’t use my Hue system without it.] Overhue This is an account of my experience with the Philips Hue. It is my review,…
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Numenera – The Nightmare Switch Gameplay – Part 4/4 – Wrap Up
Back to Part 3 Lessons Learned If you are playing a one-off session, the party has no incentive to hoard their XP, and so will use it to reroll or stop your GM Intrusion, so take that into account. We rolled no 1s during our game, so no free intrusions this time. Combat is fast…
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Numenera – The Nightmare Switch Gameplay – Part 3/4 – The Adventure Continues
Back to Part 2 The Adventure Continues The party had some downtime while the quarry mistress headed off to organise the travel arrangements, and so Gabriel, Acrophelia and Arrowtail went for a walk through town, respectively healing, guarding and pickpocketing the tired townsfolk. Chronus went back to the ship where he convinced Deymish to walk…
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Numenera – The Nightmare Switch Gameplay – Part 2/4 – The Adventure Begins
Back to Part 1 The Adventure Begins And so our party found itself on Deymish’s ship, with 3 crewmen, passing through the Seshar region, which consists of huge artificial canals cut in straight lines through burning desert terrain patrolled by roaming margr tribes. Deymish was urgently shipping three crates to the Redstone clave of Aeon…