After learning a great deal of HTML through both my job with the Department of Applied Linguistics and the PDXX Collective, I craved more e-publishing (electronic publishing through web or ebook production).

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I took a course in the Winter 2013 term with Abbey that offered an introduction to the tools one needs to make ebooks. This was the first time I’d fooled around with CSS, XHTML, or zipping up and finalizing epubs. In the Spring 2013 term, I took a four-credit course on digital publishing with Amanda Gomm that would guide us more completely through the process of making an epub from start to finish. As the course progressed, I grew incrementally more comfortable with the terminology and with working in a text editor.

I wanted to write a note about this course because digital publishing is important to me. While writing and editing are much easier given my skills, I do enjoy the process of epub production—looking at a short story you’ve written in Notepad++ is a very interesting reversal of how the process began when all vaporous in one’s imagination. Also, I find e-publishing very empowering to the undiscovered human person. I appreciate this stage in technology and feel mostly hopeful that smart and passionate writers will take advantage of it.