We’re joined by Shelly Brisbin, author of the book iOS Access for All and host of The Parallel Podcast. As she’s written more than a dozen tech books, I asked her to come on the show to explain how she creates her books, what tools she uses, and how she migrated from using an agent and a big publishing house to doing self publishing. It’s a really fun episode because while you’d think creating a book is all about writing, Shelly gets into how she uses TextWrangler and writes her own Cascading Style Sheets to create her books.
You can find Shelly on Twitter @shelly and you can find her book at iosaccessbook.com/…, and The Parallels Podcast at parallelpodcast.com/….
Links to things Shelly mentioned in the show:
- Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur by Guy Kawasaki
- EPUB Straight to the Point by Elizabeth Castro
- OmniOutliner
- TextWrangler
- Marked
- Take Control Books
- Apple support page on making an ePub with Pages
- ePub Zip/UnZip AppleSripts
- ePub Converter
- ePubcheck
- TidBITS article on using iBooks to proof ePubs
- Fetchapp