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[Elok]

Now working on Kindle conversion.  It's taking a bit of time to convert, possibly because the book is 500 pages.

[Unorthodox]

Okay, I think you might be overselling it. 

If any of you happen to like heavily intellectual science fiction

Not really. 

Looking at book...Hm, good title, CURSE...promising. 

Seven centuries ago, disaster struck the terraformed colony world of Corban, killing almost everyone and leaving the survivors with no technology but the fruits of their ancestors' genetic engineering experiments.

Ooo, planet of Dr Moreau sounds good...

Global civilization recovered, after a fashion, under the rule of a highly conservative and domineering priesthood.

Danger! Danger!  Politics warning.

Now that priesthood is itself beginning to fray at the seams, undone by indolence and corruption.

Evil priests have promise, but politics sounds more likely...

The face of the world is changing, but its final shape is as yet unknown.

I'm sensing this is political, not literal face of the world. 

Into this volatile situation is born Yunise Columabbi, a high-born young woman with fantastic powers of healing.

Well, at least it doesn't sound like accidental heroine trope...

As a living sign of divine grace, she presents both a threat and a promise to the priesthood. Now she struggles to find her place in a world that is tearing itself apart.

Horror sounding less and less likely...

An epistolary novel

Had to look that one up in the dictionary...meh.

interweaving three distinct perspectives

I do like those, but that is DIFFICULT to pull off. 

on a marvelous adventure through a strange and wonderful world.

 

I'm really sensing this is not my cup of tea.  I can't get through the DUNE novels, for instance. 

Totally congrats on getting it published and best of luck. 

[Elok]

Epistolary novel means it's told in the form of letters, diaries, and other documents.  And no, it's not horror, sorry.  I'd like to think it's a bit less obscure than Dune, though Dune was an inspiration.  Thanks for considering it, anyway.

[ColdWizard]

Honestly, I need sales more at this point than I need cash.  I'm not hurting for money, I just need my name out there.  Buy where it suits you, mon frere.  You should get it at the same time either way, since Amazon does the printing in-house and all (it's already available there).

I have Prime, so unless Amazon is lying to me (possible), it's saying I'd get it in two days. The eStore was saying two weeks. I assume that's media mail.


I also had to look up epistolary; I liked the one epistolary novel I remember reading but that was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein...

[Elok]

Huh.  It seems they're sabotaging the higher-royalty option.  The blaggards.  Oh well, I didn't really expect a lot of people to leave Amazon anyway.

[ColdWizard]

There were a number of people reaching that same conclusion, though CreateSpace's U.S. shipping charge appears to have come down significantly. International shipping for CS is allegedly still quite heinous.

[Elok]

The Kindle version may have to wait until I recover files from my busted PC.  Amazon doesn't give me the option to recover my submitted PDF from CS, and attempts to convert it between sites don't work.  It says "wait a few moments" for half an hour or more, and if the file appears at all in the end it's just a cover image and a single blank page.  Useless.

[ColdWizard]

I have a paid pdf software that purports to allow me to convert files to .docx format. On the rare occasions that I convert files, I go the other way so I don't know how well it might work. I'm also not sure how my ancient potato laptop would hold up to converting 500+ pages but I could try it if you want.

[Lorizael]

Dude, I'm in the book. Thanks, Elok, for giving me the opportunity to read the thing and help. It's pretty awesome to be able to hold the finished product in my hands.

[Elok]

No problem!  CW, I might take you up on that, if I can cajole Amazon into giving me my PDF.  CS doesn't give me an option to re-download an uploaded file, and my "hey, your conversion doesn't do crap" e-mail got me a "yeah, it does suck" reply, more or less.  IE, they won't do anything to help with it.  Until I get the PDF back--or get my PC back--or take my last thumb drive backup and painstakingly check and fix five hundred pages against the final hard proof--I'm dead in the water on the eBook front.

[Elok]

Okay, they gave me access to it.  First order of business was to save a backup on three separate thumb drives, even though I've got it permanently available on my CS page.  PM me your e-mail; it's only a single MB, since it has no images embedded, so I don't think your laptop will snuff it.

[Elok]

Dude, I'm in the book. Thanks, Elok, for giving me the opportunity to read the thing and help. It's pretty awesome to be able to hold the finished product in my hands.

I've thanked you a bunch of times, not least in the book itself, but you do realize you (and Buncle) were indispensable, right?  If you want to show your name off to any friends of yours who are into sci-fi, and maybe lend them the book, I would not mind that at all.   

Okay, I've got a Word version of the PDF.  I've got a fighting chance at this Kindle thing.  Thanks, ColdWizard!

[Spacy]

If the kindle works, please let me know. 

[ColdWizard]

Okay, I've got a Word version of the PDF.  I've got a fighting chance at this Kindle thing.  Thanks, ColdWizard!

Glad to help

[Elok]

Submitted to Kindle Direct Publishing.  Should be out in a day or two, once they've reviewed it for child pornography (or whatever they do) and done the minimal formatting necessary to fit my blurbs on the page.