@orionkidder Honestly, it's been a pain in the butt - albeit a worthwhile one. The only software that I could find that would work well (eBook and print) were OpenOffice and Scrivener, so I had to import my documents then reformat there, both ways. Then I found out that reviews of my book were not appearing when people started emailing me and saying "they rejected my review." But... on the other hand, I've made SOME money on the books! 😃
Tern
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Author of The Short War series
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Company got bought by Alcatel and the entire warehouse system, conveyors, PLC's, all of it, was piled in parking lot and sold for scrap. "WE only use DEC VMS!" (Little did they know...) Inventory accuracy dropped to 87%. Shipping time went from three days to two weeks.
Company went under two years later - I'd already bailed.
@fribbledom
"Take tote 5 and put it on lower send pad and push button." Tote gets pushed out onto conveyor and goes to next station with parts for that kit. Very cool stuff and cutting-edge at the time. Achieved 99.9999% inventory accuracy.
"Take tote 5 and put it on lower send pad and push button." Tote gets pushed out onto conveyor and goes to next station with parts for that kit. Very cool stuff and cutting-edge at the time. Achieved 99.9999% inventory accuracy.
@fribbledom Early 90's - robotic warehouse. Tied IBM mainframe to HP3000 (MPE) to HP1000 (Unix) to Allen-Bradley PLC-3 (Ladder Logic) to Mac user workstations (FutureBASIC.) Had to write code for all of those except the IBM, learned a LOT. Took "kit orders" from HP3000 and wound up with a screen on the Mac saying "take 3 of these from the box" - where the box had a light next to it on the shelf on the carousel that had already spun to the right position - "and put them in tote 3" (also lit.)
@wion This makes no sense. If they built desalination plants, they could process ocean water without hauling icebergs around...
@srol No idea if you're the first - but "Don't EVEN talk to me until I've had at LEAST two cups of coffee in the morning!" There, I'm the second.
@srol It was OBVIOUSLY a dream - nobody in Canada ever gets mad! 😂
Research. Fact-checking. I've recently read some stories where the author obviously did ZERO research or fact checking on "minor parts" of their story - and effectively ruined it for me. We have Google. We have instances like this one where you can ASK if someone is familiar with a topic. Why write something totally ridiculous? It's just sloppy. Careless. If you're going to disregard basic facts because you're too lazy to look something up, why not just stop using spell check, too?
@keiyakins Check out Lois McMaster Bujold's "Falling Free" and the art from it's covers, etc. - that will give your artist some ideas to work from (or avoid!)
@reghan The writing process is always an emotional one. That's our creation we're putting out there! As soon as it leaves our hands, we start second-guessing... is it good enough? Did chapter 40's eleventh rewrite get it right? Did I forget a plot thread? The good news is that unlike 90% of the "writers" out there, you have actually FINISHED something to get feedback ON!
Speaking of which <cracks whip> I need to get back to work on book three in MY series! 🤦♂️