Bees & Bugs

Bee on mint.

Sent from my phone. Nokia camera on auto, cropped, and ‘fixed’ which yellowed the bee a bit. 🙂

NEXT DAY: Adding a second photo – same bee, cropped, but not ‘fixed’ with the magic wand. I’ve never used the wand before, and wanted to see what would happen. You can see he is not as golden. The original of the other photo has vanished, else I would have shown you that. I’ve also cropped the first more, it had a bit too much of the out of focus mint blossom. (I’m standing over the mint, looking down)

Nokia Lumia, 5MP, auto, cropped, fixed

beemint

Nokia Lumia, 5MP, on auto, cropped only

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Writing

2015 Book Publishing Industry Predictions:

Mark Coker, from Smashwords, gives his 12 predictions for  2015 on his blog.

“Slow Growth Presents Challenges and Opportunities”

[I’ve added this later – perhaps making my post a little more ‘interesting’ and not so blankish looking.]

Tonight, I’ve been over to Smorgasbord – Variety is the Spice of Life blog catching up on the great ebook series of articles Tess has been reblogging.  I got to worrying about the formatting foibles ahead of me in a few months.

As I’ve mentioned before, I use a free writing software application called yWriter5 from Spacejock Software (I have no affiliation with the author/software fellow Simon Haynes). I’ve just come from visiting his website to check what he has to say about ebook conversion and I’m pleased – no, THRILLED – to discover that the very latest software update includes a new ‘export for e-book feature’.

yWriter5 already has a ‘convert to HTML’ but this new export feature is optimized for conversion to e-book using Calibre. Simon says the resulting e-book should format without any nasty surprises. He should know – he’d be using it for his own books.

Works in progress in Word of Open Office can be imported and converted with a minimum of fuss.

The man is a genius!

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