Cover's Coming Along

After a total of about, well too many hours of work, the cover drawing for my story is... finished? Waiting on some aesthetic/ conceptual feedback from a trusted source, who has already read the story. Then it's time to make needed adjust and/or begin adding title text.

Time to Design

I've developed a basic design for my new story's cover image. I made a pencil line drawing and scanned it into the computer. I'm laying in the base colors digitally via Photoshop. The tentative title is The Knight of Halloween. My goal is to have the cover done by Friday- image, color, value, text and all.

New Manuscript

Just completed a childrens horror story. It's approx. 140 pages and geared toward 8 to 16 year olds. The basic manuscript took about a month to finish. It is the first middle age book that I've written and I really enjoyed it. The process has opened several concepts in my mind for future projects.

New Outlet

A Day Without Words is now available for computer desktops, Smartphones, eReaders and Tablets at Kobo. Just click Here or visit my website for more information- Dark Porter Books.

Floaters by James Kinsak Reviewed

Floaters by James Kinsak approx. 8204 words. I downloaded this short story from Smashwords. From the description, it seemed like a simple suspenseful ghost story. Reading, it was that to a T; however, luckily, there were some twists and elements to the story that kept it fresh. I really liked the last half of the story, it picked up a lot and the ending was a thriller! ****

Rocky Road!

I was very excited after self publishing my A Day Without Words short story to Smashwords and Amazon. I had labored for days on trying to get the correct formatting that each site required. Amazon was a bit easier, since I was able to convert the book myself and then upload it to there site. When I check on it I was pleased and if it hadn't been for yet another typo escaping my leer, I would have been done with Amazon. I corrected the typo and re-submitted it- done! Smashwords was a much different monster. They run the original Word document through a converter that spits out the story in several formats, which is great because it allows reader to use Kindle, Nook or even their computer to read the story. Unfortunately, the converter they use is very picky and gives errors if you didn't follow the style guide. Having followed the guide, I was very shocked to see that I had errors, but I was excited and ready to correct them. Some of the issues were very odd, such as bold type when I had no bold type included. It took several days of doing and redoing the document. A major issue is that you have to have it completely published before you can actually preview how the story looks, so the process can take a long time.
I'm happy to say that I believe all the issues have been resolved (knock on wood) and that even the typos have been fixed... dare I dream. Both outlets are now linked to my web site's store:
 Dark Porter Books:Store

Milestone!

I just published the short story ebook A Day Without Words at Smashwords.com. It's available in many formats to fit most ereaders, but even has .pdf and .txt for the computer, so an ereader isn't needed to download and enjoy it! If you get a copy, please comment or review the story and let me know what you think.