Hi Simi, All great questions. The files are on my folder, and I currently use github - that's because I like to keep versions as I work through my manuscript. I find VS code the fastest to write with its autocomplete, intellisense plugins, and Markdown helps me work unobstrusively focused on text and nothing else. Finally, PQ lets me do a lot of stuff that cuts manual work (the docx conversion is just one part). For example, boxsets, updating backmatter material across the catalog, improving the look-and-feel of the catalog and so on, and it works great.

Wouldn’t it be cool if your novels let readers go to a Google Earth / Maps flyby for all the major locations in your book? That’s what I did for some of my novels, and many readers try it after reading the books. First, some context. My books are in the Ancient Historical…

Proofreading my work is one of the most painful stages of writing. I hate it, but it’s absolutely essential. …

In July 1996, a family of four German tourists disappeared into the wilderness of Death Valley. Egbert Rimkus (34), his son Georg Weber (11), Egbert’s girlfriend Cornelia “Conny” Meyer (28), and her son Max Meyer (4), vanished, seemingly into thin air. Their van was found, three months later, on Monday…

The timelines of Pharaohs and major events in Egypt presented in a series of simple, easy to follow graphs. I thought this would be helpful to many who want a “bird’s eye view” to this fascinating civilization. We always have many questions. How many Pharaohs were there? …

Vim is an awesomely popular programmer’s editor, and I’ve adopted vim mode in Visual Studio Code for writing novels and articles. In this post I cover my most used commands and how they make my writing so much faster. There are a ton more, but I’m only covering the once…

You’re thinking — whoa, hold on there, what? Aug 2021 Update: It’s been a while since I wrote this article. I now swear by it! When paired with PublishQuickly (I’m a beta user — it’s an online no-install Markdown to Kindle Word or ePub creator with many other features) this…

Chapter Series — Index. Rationale Organization (this post) First, let me explain my organizational needs. I write Fiction & Non-Fiction books, and Blogs. Within each category (Books), I have more than one book. For each book, I need to capture research, store blurbs, queries, and other material related to publishing…

Update Dec 2020: Note! Since this writing, I briefly went back to Microsoft Word, but I have since adopted a new system of writing with Visual Studio Code and then using a tool called PowerManuscript to speed up several aspects of the process. So, I previously wrote how I used…