HTRASG is now reformatted to look nicer, inside, and it was work. This was my first book and, while it's also my shortest, it had a lot of things that needed updating. But it's all done, now, and Porno Manifesto is the last one to do...but it's being difficult, at best. For some idiot reason, I made the margins wider in my reboot, a few years back, and didn't notice a lot of the quotation marks were wrong. I feel like a complete idiot.
So I have to go through the whole book to make sure they're set up right, since I'm using Times New Roman as the font. I like how it looks and it's easy to read, but it is finicky. If you have a space before a quotation mark, like this -- ", it thinks you're starting a new sentence instead of ending one, so they face the wrong way. It's not obvious in the font I have on this blog (I don't have TNR Font available), but it looks goofy as you read.
Anyway, by the time I got done with settling the layout for the reformat, I had an additional 10 pages left to fill in order to keep the book at 176...so I added the first chapter from RIHC6. What the heck; it's the followup book. Now it's at the length I want. Tomorrow, I'm going through it and correcting the friggin' quotation marks. That'll be an all-day job. Cool.
I watched the first 2018 episode of Midsommer Murders on Britbox, as a way to relax, and found I really didn't like it. It felt a bit loose and some of the explanations as to what was happening were...convenient. With Vera, I believed these were cops on the job, even if I didn't think the mysteries were always top-drawer. This one...nowhere near as sharp in the dialogue and attitudes. And while the mystery's resolution wasn't as bad as In The Dark, it was still unimpressive.
Dammit...Prime Suspect and Vera spoiled me.
So I have to go through the whole book to make sure they're set up right, since I'm using Times New Roman as the font. I like how it looks and it's easy to read, but it is finicky. If you have a space before a quotation mark, like this -- ", it thinks you're starting a new sentence instead of ending one, so they face the wrong way. It's not obvious in the font I have on this blog (I don't have TNR Font available), but it looks goofy as you read.
Anyway, by the time I got done with settling the layout for the reformat, I had an additional 10 pages left to fill in order to keep the book at 176...so I added the first chapter from RIHC6. What the heck; it's the followup book. Now it's at the length I want. Tomorrow, I'm going through it and correcting the friggin' quotation marks. That'll be an all-day job. Cool.
I watched the first 2018 episode of Midsommer Murders on Britbox, as a way to relax, and found I really didn't like it. It felt a bit loose and some of the explanations as to what was happening were...convenient. With Vera, I believed these were cops on the job, even if I didn't think the mysteries were always top-drawer. This one...nowhere near as sharp in the dialogue and attitudes. And while the mystery's resolution wasn't as bad as In The Dark, it was still unimpressive.
Dammit...Prime Suspect and Vera spoiled me.
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