
and I cannot stress how misguided those recommendations are.


I can’t even count how many times I have read on message boards, not to use curly quotes, ellipses etc. By that, I mean a version that has proper curly quotes, correct dashes, including em dashes, ellipses and so forth. The first thing we need is a cleaned up text version of your manuscript. I know you’ve been waiting for this with held breath, so let’s just roll. Now that we’ve exhaustively covered the preliminaries, it is finally time to put it all to work for us and begin creating an actual eBook source file. To read the previous one, please click here This is the sixth installment of a series of articles.
