My Experience of Publishing The Woethief on Nantucket E-Books
This guest post comes from Seth Patterson, author of The Woethief. Seth sent this in to share his experience with using Nantucket E-Books and my markup language, Shanty.
Seth’s latest work is a preview of The Light Stone, a comic book he is producing with Autumn Patterson. Check it out! — NJB
I wrote The Woethief over several years. Over time, I used different editors and formats. Learning about Markdown changed my writing process because it allowed greater portability and the ability to work in the terminal.
When I discovered Nantucket E-Books (I think it was through a LibrePlanet talk), it was great to see how similar the Shanty markup language is to Markdown. With minimal changes, I turned a Markdown document into Shanty and saw a preview of my e-book in Arrowhead.
As someone trained in IT, I enjoy how Nantucket E-Books cuts through the clutter that other e-book publishing platforms suffer from. Using plain text allows me to focus on writing, not on remembering where formatting buttons are. With Arrowhead, I can preview my e-book in seconds instead of letting a website convert a Word document into an e-book and hoping it turns out.
Nicholas gave perceptive feedback and helped me trim distractions from The Woethief. It is a better story because of his editing. Nicholas also deeply understands the needs of speculative fiction authors and free culture advocates.
I recommend publishing with Nantucket E-Books for a smooth experience with great feedback on how to improve your storytelling.
Do you use Shanty or Nantucket E-Books for your work? Send a comment and I’ll include it here. Thanks for reading.
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