Last night, I was up until 1AM inserting HTML italics tags into a Notepad document as part of the finishing touches on my book, The Definity. In the publishing world, I would’ve simply handed my manuscript off to someone else and let some creative director deal with all the nitty-gritty details in regards to book covers and eBook versions of my story and I could rest at night on the piles of money that the publisher gave me. Instead, I was painstakingly searching line by line making sure that the book’s format wouldn’t “break” when someone loaded it up on their Kindle. From the cover (our artist Cody actually did all the characters and main artwork while I did layout) to design, publication, and promotion, it was a challenge to assemble this book over the past 15 months while working a full-time job and writing for the best web site in the world.
This one. That’s where you think ‘this one, FleshEatingZipper’.
Eleven years ago, I opened Macromedia’s Flash 5 to produce a sci-fi pew pew movie called Zero Wing, based loosely on the ‘All Your Best’ game. You can