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March 17, 2012

Crowdsource Challenge!

 

My next ebook will be Aristoi, my insanely ambitious 1992 novel that came within a couple votes of a Hugo nomination.

But there’s a problem.  I can’t seem to format it properly.

See, parts of Aristoi had a unique structure.  The prose was displayed in two columns, the first a description of what was happening in the scene, the second a description of the complex things going on in the (posthuman) narrator’s head.

(This wasn’t gratuitous, but an attempt to visualize on the page what was happening in the narrator’s mental space.)

The only problem is that ebook formats don’t seem to take kindly to this unusual format . . .

Does anyone out there in Readerland have an idea of how to do multiple columns inside epub and mobi format?  And if you think you do, would you be willing to help me out, at least with a small sample section so I can learn how to do it myself?

Anyone providing an answer will receive a signed copy of any one of my works.  Your choice, provided of course that I have a spare copy myself.

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