The Old Roads series is now available as an ebook!

[aithne]

Kathil Amell is a hero, so they claim. The only Grey Warden to slay an Archdemon and survive the experience. A living legend.

But after the war is over, after the need for heroes is done with, a mage with too much power and too many haunting memories is as much aliability as anything else. Kathil has spent years learning old magic; now the consequences of her actions are beginning to seek her out.

And all too easily, she begins to become something that nobody ever expected...

The Old Roads omnibus contains two novellas and three novels, packaged in one file for easy reading.  It’s free to download fromMediafire—if you have a Kindle, you want the .mobi version, and most other ebook readers will want the .epub version.  (To get the .mobi fileonto your Kindle, you can use your favorite ebook management system such as calibre, or send it to your Kindle email address.) 

I’ve been meaning to do this for ages, and I hope you all enjoy it!

(Also, if there's interest, it turns out that making your own ebooks is actually super easy if you know HTML.)

Comments

[amhran_comhrac]

I would totally be interested in info on making an ebook. Do you have any webpage recommendations, or would you be willing to do a short tute?

[aithne]

You want Sigil, which is a WISYWYG ebook editor: http://code.google.com/p/sigil/

And a basic tutorial is here: http://code.google.com/p/sigil/wiki/BasicTutorial

The big thing turns out to be making sure that your HTML is relatively clean before you put it into Sigil. It's easiest to make one big document out of your whole fic and clean it up in your favorite HTML editor before you import it into Sigil. With Old Roads, I spent quite a bit of time cleaning out old notes and such that didn't really need to be in the ebook edition--I downloaded the HTML of the whole fic from AO3 as my source material.

I then used calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) to convert the .epub into a .mobi edition for use by Kindles.

[amhran_comhrac]

Thanks so much for sharing this! I really want to do a giant AOA series ebook when all is said and done.

[lassarina]

Oooh, lovely. *clicks to download*

And thank you for the mini-tutorial above ^^^ on making ebooks! This is highly relevant to my efforts in another fandom. :D

[miri1984]

Also, if your fiction is on Archive of our Own, you can simply click the "epub" button and it will download almost perfectly cleanly. If you have calibre (which is awesome) you can then fiddle around with the metadata to create a cover and make it look pretty!

I'm in the process of doing this with my completed fics as well. I'll make a master post for POT where everyone who wants to make e-books can put their fic and that way we can have a POT E LIBRARY :D :D.

[aithne]

Yaaaaaay! *bounces*

[amhran_comhrac]

I love you like I love coffee. Have I mentioned that today?

[miri1984]

*blushes* Well now young lady! WE SHOULD GET TOGETHER AND HAVE COFFEE SOMETIME *eyebrow waggle*

[lenticularstudy]

Thanks for the link! Loved the series when I found it on ff.net, so glad to have it in a pretty, novel-ish format. :)

[aithne]

Thank you!