Well howdy there internet peeps, It's Troy again
Back from the convention full of people.
I'm done peopling for a few days. Had an invitation to Lunch from someone I met there, and I had to put if off for a week. I'm peopled out. Will resume peopling next week.
And in other news, the hard drive crash and death of the laptop is still sending ripples through my world.
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I'm trying to upload printable files to a book printer based in the UK (with a partner in the US) to cover my three biggest markets (US, UK, EU)... and ...
I didn't have back ups current of all my book files. Of course, the best selling starter one of series one, is missing.
So I have to work on importing the PDF of it, saved on one of the various print services I use, and go chapter by chapter to import it into my main writing software. Then I have to clean up all of the page numbers, and title/author name from the top of the pages. I don't need those in the master file.
Then I have to clean up the line formatting, and end of line hyphenated words. Most of the text reflows, but if it had a word get hyphenated, then there are several lines to manually clean up.
Annoying. But my own fault for not making sure my backups were up to date. Yes, I know about time machine. My preference is to back up to drop box, and thumb drives. I do that every time I write a chapter. But, the old books fell through the cracks.
Time to crack on with the cut and paste. I've got some grandmum beta readers already signed up search for any formatting errors I miss today.