{"id":148,"date":"2011-04-21T09:44:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T15:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2011-04-21T16:48:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T22:18:47","slug":"tech-warrior-putting-a-book-on-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/tech-warrior-putting-a-book-on-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech warrior: putting a book on Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B004GUSHDM\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B004GUSHDM\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-155\" title=\"STM Kindle image cropped\" src=\"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/STM-Kindle-image-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Slaying the Mermaid cover image\" width=\"125\" height=\"210\" \/>Slaying the Mermaid: Women and the Culture of Sacrifice<\/a> is now an ebook offered through Amazon. A triumph, for I did it all myself. Years in print publishing had worn deep grooves in my brain, so it  took some effort to wrap my mind around the basic ebook concepts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No pages.<\/li>\n<li>No fancy fonts for display type.<\/li>\n<li>No artful white space before and after chapter titles and subheads (but <em>enough <\/em>space and sufficient variation in font size so the reader knows that a new section is beginning).<\/li>\n<li>No index!<\/li>\n<li>On the bright side, endnote reference numbers are links. Click and  jump straight to the note. Click again and jump right back to where you  were in the text.<\/li>\n<li>On the agonizing side, guess who had to format each of 300 notes, one by one?<!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And since the book was originally published when copyediting was  still done on paper, I had no electronic file of the final text and had  to have the hard copy scanned. The scanner made mistakes, so the  resulting file needed proofreading.<\/p>\n<p>I solved formatting problems thanks to a lot of trial and error, plus  the Amazon Kindle support forums\u2014advice there was better than the  official Amazon instructions.<\/p>\n<p>Although the book has been out of print for some time, people are  still buying it used on Amazon. Every once in a while I hear from  someone who\u2019s read it. So I\u2019m really happy that it\u2019s in published form  again.<\/p>\n<p>The book answers this question:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why do so many women feel obliged to put other people\u2019s needs first, even when they don\u2019t want to?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And it answers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The self-sacrificing impulse comes from women\u2019s history, not their nature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Slaying the Mermaid<\/em> grew out of an amazing experience I had while working at a shelter for  homeless women run by nuns (well-trained in self-sacrifice) while  researching my first book, <a title=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Women-Outside-Meanings-Myths-Homelessness\/dp\/0520084381\/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1294180740&amp;sr=1-11\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Women-Outside-Meanings-Myths-Homelessness\/dp\/0520084381\/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1294180740&amp;sr=1-11\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Women Outside.<\/em><\/a> <em>Slaying the Mermaid <\/em>traces  the historical, cultural and mythic factors that gave women the  responsibility to sacrifice and suffer for the benefit of our entire  society. Then it tells you how to distinguish self-destructive giving  from positive, constructive forms of sacrifice, reclaiming the original  meaning of sacrifice as an act that both transforms and empowers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slaying the Mermaid: Women and the Culture of Sacrifice is now an ebook offered through Amazon. A triumph, for I did it all myself. Years in print publishing had worn deep grooves in my brain, so it took some effort to wrap my mind around the basic ebook concepts: No pages. No fancy fonts for display type. No artful white space before and after chapter titles and subheads (but enough space and sufficient variation in font size so the reader knows that a new section is beginning). No index! On the bright side, endnote reference numbers are links. 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