Unseen Author Journeys
Unseen Author Journeys pulls back the curtain on the publishing industry. Writer–publisher L. P. Rondanini explains why great books get rejected, what professional publishing really costs, how to avoid predatory deals, and the practical paths authors can take to reach readers.
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How I AI-Typeset a Book I Wrote Completely Myself (opens the original)
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The cost of professional typesetting, and how I built Fable to replace it. Professional book typesetting for a title heavy with mathematical equations can cost between two thousand and six thousand pounds per book. For an independent publisher building a ten-book series, that is not viable. In this episode I explain how I built Fable: a structured prompt document that instructs Claude, used as an extension inside Microsoft Word, to convert every mathematical expression in a manuscript into nativ
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