Thanks

As I was writing this book, I had the good fortune to join up with the knowledgeable and helpful folks who follow the #eprdctn hashtag on Twitter. This book would have been a much less valuable resource without the tips, thoughts, questions, suggestions and real world experience of Lindsey Martin (@crych), Joshua Tallent (@jtallent), David Blatner (@dblatner), Anne Marie Concepcion (@amarie), Tina Henderson (@tinahender), Colleen Cunningham (@BookDesignGirl), Rick Gordon (@rcgordon), Anthony Levings (@anthonylevings), David Mundie (@mundie1010), Titusz Pan (@Titusz), Koan-Sin Tan (@koansin), Adam Jury (@adamjury), Walt Shiel (@slipdown), Mike Cane (@mikecane), Jose Afonso Furtado (@jafurtado), and Guy L. Gonzalez (@glecharles) and the folks at @DigiBookWorld. There are many others. You can come join us too by following #eprdctn.

Thanks also to Cliff Colby, my editor at Peachpit Press, who believed in this project, and who kept his calm when I moved things around at the last minute, and even let me move the last minutes themselves as Apple released new versions of iBooks.

And to David Van Ness, my production editor at Peachpit Press, whose help discovering all the widows and bad breaks help make this a much more pleasant read.

Finally, thanks to my friends (if I still have any) who endured months of “I’m almost done, can we get together next month” and to my family who quietly urged me on. I couldn’t have kept going without you. Writing a book is a crazy, intensive, very personal pursuit, which must both be done in solitude and with support. I have been very fortunate to have had both.

One of the things I love about EPUB is the same thing I loved about HTML in its infancy: anyone can do it. You, too, can use this technology to write and publish your own book. I hope you’ll tell me about it. You can find me at http://www.twitter.com/@lizcastro.