An Announcement

You may have noticed that I have not posted much recently. I have been very busy, and that is not going to change any time soon. But also, in part due to the special pressures of my work with the families of murder victims and other survivors of trauma, certain types of internet interactions and content have become very triggery to me.

In terms of internet interaction, I am going offline except for my own LJ/DW and Facebook, Goodreads, a few other LJ/DWs, and, of course, email. If you want to talk to me, please come here and comment, or else email. I will keep everyone on my f-list so they can read my locked posts, but will be cutting way back on my own reading. If you have a post that you think I would be sorry to miss, please comment or email me with a link.

Please do not email, comment, or otherwise inform me if anyone is saying mean things about me, lying about me, or making accusations about me online. I do not want to know, and due to cutting back, the only way I will know is if you tell me.

The one exception is if anyone makes overt or covert violent threats. (Overt: "I'm going to break her knees with a baseball bat." Covert: "It would be awesome if someone raped her. Ha ha! Just kidding! I would never do that!") If you see any of those, please screencap them and email me. If you don't know how to screencap, cut-and-paste the text and copy the link. I will report them to the appropriate law enforcement agency.

I'm not naming the other triggers here because, as you probably know, triggers can be complicated and very personal, and trying to explain would probably only make people feel like they're walking on eggshells. But no general topics are banned here. You can still come on over and talk all you want about trauma, murder, how much you enjoyed a violent movie, etc. If you hit on anything that pushes my buttons, I'll let you know. But honestly, you probably won't. I've had very few problems reading comments to my own LJ/DW.

Does anyone know e-book formatting? Especially for poetry?

I am trying to release a collection of stories and poetry, and I'm having huge problems formatting.

Everything looks correct in the doc. But when I upload it to Kindle, there are incorrect indentations in the poetry - indents where there shouldn't be indents. There are also a couple places where I can't get the title to center. One afterword has line breaks between paragraphs, when it shouldn't. And if a poetry line has to wrap around due to screen size, I want it to wrap to the same margin as the rest of the poem. Instead, it wraps to a shorter margin, which looks weird.

Also, while I have constructed a working table of contents on Kindle, I can't figure out how to do so for BN.

I can't figure out how to fix this. The errors don't appear in "reveal formatting." If anyone would like to take a look at this and advise, please email or PM me.