Wow, Am I Having Fun… When Steph went down the road, Kris and I decided we wanted to make the switch to doing everything ourselves. Now we had done that in the early days of indie publishing, but employees took over some things and we didn’t learn some new ways. Now we are. And to be honest, we are both having a blast. I call them learning curves and I made a list of the top ten areas I needed to learn. First was get my skills back in InDesign. Check. And so on. Today Chris York and I worked our way through a pretty massive Excel spreadsheet. Now, she…

Just Got Hammered by the Learning Curve… Vellum is just plain strange, and for years I designed the interior of books in InDesign and before that Pagemaaker. Well over a thousand books. But unlike those two programs, Vellum has more things you can’t do than you can. And very little of what you can do is logical. And it does things automatically you don’t want done. (I got to learn how to turn some of that off.) So I am working on putting a collection together. Not difficult, right?  I did hundreds of them in Pagemaker and InDesign over the decades. First attempt was a mess as I tried to…