I’m running two deals right through June 30, 2011.
First, there’s a coupon on my twitter feed for 50% off of my retro action shooter game Derelict (for Mac or PC).
Second, I will send anyone that buys a copy of any of my software (even Derelict with the coupon) a free e-copy of Shattered.
You can find StoryBox and TrackerBox here..
This week, I’ve been working on a tool for tracking my book sales across all the sites I sell through. It’s been a fun break from writing, but I’m itchy to get back to working on the next Wizard’s Work book. However, I can’t stop working on the tool until it’s done.
I really want to get it to a finished state, which will hopefully be sometime early this week. We shall see. It’s already taken me longer than I wanted it to. Finishing software is hard.
Anyway, I will be selling this tool. It currently imports data from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords and CreateSpace. If you would be interested in this tool, but have sales reports from other sites that it currently doesn’t support, email me a sample report to the StoryBox support email and I’ll make sure it gets in.
I should have more information about the tool, soon.
Please update to 1.3.109. I found a bug today that I thought I had fixed, but it turned out worse than I thought. I’ve fixed it, and you really should update to this build as I don’t know when I introduced it. I’m certain it goes back at least as far as the .106 build.
The problem had to do with rearranging documents in the document tree. Their order wouldn’t get updated correctly in the project, causing potential conflicts when viewing index cards or outlines.
I’m sorry for the inconvenience.
Some minor features and a few bug fixes. The biggest feature is that StoryBox now keeps track of the session word count as well. You can toggle between the display by clicking the “Daily/Session” word count bar on either the main screen or the full screen view.
The biggest fix is for Kindle ePub export. Paragraphs with no text indent should now be properly formatted, and the text indent size should match closer to what you have set in your project. Don’t forget that you can directly upload an ePub to KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). The conversion in my one test with Shattered works great.
While adding a completely silly feature (background images for full screen mode), I came across an annoying bug that wouldn’t let you see the menu in full screen mode more than once.
So, fixed the bug, added the silly feature, fixed a couple other theme related issues, and here you are. A new release only one day later with two… TWO new features (you can also align the text area left, center, and right in full screen mode, now).
Here’s the latest update. It fixes quite a few things and adds shortcut keys for typographer quotes (smart quotes) that, if you need them, will help you put the right quote in the right spot. The current best algorithm for SmartQuotes has two flaws (Microsoft Word has them, too) in that it will not get a leading apostrophe correct, nor will it get the left single quote correct if it follows a double quote. ( “‘ )
Use the shortcut key’s to work around those two problems. They will not be replaced on export, so they will always be the right ones. If you do not plan to export with typographer quotes (if you are planning on sending your work to a publisher, for instance) don’t use them.
Also, don’t forget the coupon code for this weekend that will let you have 30% off your purchase!