{"id":10089,"date":"2016-10-18T17:12:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T00:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=10089"},"modified":"2016-10-18T17:12:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T00:12:23","slug":"ccatp-460","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/ccatp-460\/","title":{"rendered":"CCATP #460 Shelly Brisbin on Self-Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re joined by Shelly Brisbin, author of the book iOS Access for All and host of The Parallel Podcast. As she&#8217;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&#8217;s a really fun episode because while you&#8217;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.  <\/p>\n<p>You can find Shelly on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/shelly\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"no opener\">@shelly<\/a> and you can find her book at <a href=\"http:\/\/iosaccessbook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iosaccessbook.com\/&#8230;<\/a>, and The Parallels Podcast at <a href=\"http:\/\/parallelpodcast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">parallelpodcast.com\/&#8230;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10089-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2016_10_18.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2016_10_18.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2016_10_18.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/chit-chat-across-the-pond\/id1052401094?mt=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/NosillaCast\/artwork\/itunes_subscribe_button.png\" alt=\"itunes\" width=\"125\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"mp3 download\" href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2016_10_18.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">mp3 download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Links to things Shelly mentioned in the show:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2eseKoh\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"no opener\">Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur<\/a> by Guy Kawasaki<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ejlwNA\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"no opener\">EPUB Straight to the Point<\/a> by Elizabeth Castro<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/omnioutliner\/\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"no opener\">OmniOutliner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barebones.com\/products\/textwrangler\/\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"no opener\">TextWrangler<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marked2app.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"no opener\">Marked<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.takecontrolbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"no opener\">Take Control Books<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT202066\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"no opener\">Apple support page on making an ePub with Pages<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileread.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=55681\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"no opener\">ePub Zip\/UnZip AppleSripts<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epubconverter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"no opener\">ePub Converter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/code.google.com\/archive\/p\/epubcheck\/\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"no opener\">ePubcheck<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/15425\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"no opener\">TidBITS article on using iBooks to proof ePubs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fetchapp.com\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"no opener\">Fetchapp<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re joined by Shelly Brisbin, author of the book iOS Access for All and host of The Parallel Podcast. 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