Pernell Rogers – Writer

Hello all. By a fluke of luck, I submitted this story for publication at smashwords.com on July 20, 2019. Exactly 50 years ago on that same day, man first set foot on the Moon. I’ve been interested in space ever since watching that historic flight, even to the point of majoring in astronomy and astrophysics while in college. During those years, and long after, I’ve been a lifelong learner.

With the publication of this collection, I wanted to submit my book in an epub format instead of a Word document. The biggest thing I learned is that there are too many epub readers. There was no way I could make it pleasing for each one. Therefore, I made a choice to use Calibre as the epub reader of choice. Smashword’s publication guide was extremely useful to assist me with the formatting.

I also learned quite a bit about the underlying HTML code for ebooks. It’s been over a decade since I delved into HTML, but it didn’t take long before a lot of it came back.

So, after multiple submission of my epubs files to smashwords, with rejections each time, I reverted back to submitting a Word document and formatted the story using their publication guide. This morning I was ecstatic when it was finally accepted into their Premium catalog which allows it to be distributed to the other websites. It’s never taken me eight days to get any of my stories into the Premier catalog, but I needed the experience before I submit my next novella, hopefully by the end of the year.

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