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Although I have worn many hats since graduating from high school, my current line of work is where I feel that my particular skills and talents are expressed the best. I am the manager of the electronic book development team at WORDsearch Corporation, a software company based in Austin, Texas.
As an eBook editor and magager, I am engaged daily in proofreading, layout and other editing tasks, and I specialize in document transformations using automation techniques. For more information on what I do, check out my resume and my extended resume.
I also do other work on the side, including editing and proofreading, web development, and formatting books for the Amazon Kindle.
You can navigate this section using the file list below. Be sure to check out the helpful hints on editing, on coding in XHTML, and on other topics related to my line of work. One of my goals with this web site is answer some of the common questions that it seems no one else on the Internet has thought to address, so if you have a question that is just begging to be answered, please drop me a line!
Current Content
- Résumé
- Extended Résumé
- eBook Editing
- Unicode — An explanation of Unicode Character encoding and its relationship to the old ASCII encoding
- Normalization for Biblical Hebrew — A discussion of the normalization routines for coding Biblical Hebrew in Unicode
- ASCII Entities — This is a table of the 255 characters in the ASCII character set, which also take up the first 255 slots in the Unicode character set. They can be useful to lots of people.
- Services — A sampling of the services I offer.
Links:
Helpful Links
Introduction to the Kindle
Kindle Boards
Amazon Digital Text Platform (DTP)
DTP Forums
My posts on DTP
Independent Author Publishing Guides
Blogs
TeleRead
Kindle Reader
EduKindle
Blog Kindle
Kindleville - Joe Wikert
Windwalker
Amazon's Official Kindle Blog
Kindle Review
The Bookish Dilettante
Indie Author Guide
Recent Projects:
Fiction
![]() Entranscing |
![]() The Pro-Am Murders (Dion Quince) |
![]() Jumble Pie: A Novel |
![]() Thaddeus T. and Barnaby |
Non-Fiction
![]() Washington State Road Atlas |
![]() OH BOY! The Life and Music of Rock 'n' Roll Pioneer Buddy Holly |
![]() Sodium Bicarbonate - Rich Man's Poor Man's Cancer Treatment |
![]() Power Path to Love |
Joshua is a speedy technician and knows what he’s doing, has superb communication skills, a strong work ethic, is reliable, and has a pleasant personality. His rates are very reasonable and he works on your book till it looks ‘just right.’ He uploaded my book to Kindle without a hitch. Frankly, unless you’re a computer programming whiz yourself, I can’t imagine why you would even attempt to format a book for Kindle on your own. Contact Joshua!
Staton Rabin, author of OH BOY! The Life and Music of Rock 'n' Roll Pioneer Buddy Holly









