First off, thank you for following my project. I’ve been working on this book for over a year and I’m very close to (gulp) starting my pre-order campaign. One of the difficulties with this novel is that I’ve always imagined it being laid out as a "For Dummies" style help guide, with lots of sidebar facts and extra bits of info. Executing this in a basic Word document has been a bit of a ... what’s worse than a nightmare? An every-time-mare? Because that’s what dealing with formatting has been.

Anyway. For the purposes of the Inkshares site, I’ve placed the sidebar info in text boxes, roughly where they would appear. One thing I’d like to ask, O generous and kind supporter -- do you think the whole idea of boxes is too distracting? Should I just leave it as a regular old novel? Or should I stick with the help guide format? Any advice would be much appreciated, and I look forward to checking out your work as well! Thanks again --

mh