Red Room Where the Writers Are

After two reviewers knocking off a star for editing, I finally got the message and, for the second time, edited the Amazon Kindle version of War on the Margins. The .html format of Kindl-ese does not take kindly to unorthodox spacing practices (like the double spacing between lines of dialogue that I happen to like) and turns curly, directional quotation marks to weird runes that obscure other words. I suggest to my fellow writers, if there is any possibility that you might want to publish a Kindle version (and I think it's a good option), that you write your ms without double-spacing or other typographical idiosyncrasies, and do a find-and-replace with the quotation marks, for your Kindle edition. Then go wild with your dead-tree version. I hope I have saved a few people some bottles of eyedrops.