Stars and Stories

Over the past year I put together a book, Stars and Stories, using LaTeX (MiKTeX) as the typesetting software for both book and cover and Audacity for the audio. I just completed that project and I am now offering the pdf from this page.

The book is a selection of short tales. All of them except for one, Afterwards, were originally written for either Denise Farley’s Six Sentence Stories or for Sammi Cox’s Whispers and Echoes. Some of these stories were revised from their original versions.

Here is the cover, front and back:

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The print book is made and distributed by Lulu. It is pocketbook size (think, small) with heavier paper to better show the color illustrations. Because of that it is more expensive to print.

I used Amazon’s Kindle Create to make a replica of the print book as an ebook for Kindle readers. It looks much like the pdf file. As a “print replica” ebook, the text does not reflow. This preserves the illustrations in their original positions on the pages.

Now that I know how to do this, my next projects will be to make a larger, color book of photographs and poems and to create a Volume 2 of Stars and Stories.

You may read and download the book below as well as listen to the audio files. If you would like to review the book you are most welcome to do so. You may consider this pdf file as a review copy.

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    Author: Frank Hubeny

    I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

    24 thoughts on “Stars and Stories”

    5. Congratulations! I love your cover.
      We went through Lulu too when we published our books. The Alternative Book Club co-wrote 7 and are doing a webinar based on the 7th book. I wrote a book on my own for my business called, imaginatively enough, The Fegan Method.

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      1. The Fegan Method sounds like the perfect name for the business.

        Lulu seemed to offer all of the benefits that Amazon did except for publishing on the Kindle, but that was easily resolved. I was glad to be able to typeset everything, including the cover, in LaTeX. At first this seemed difficult. Now I can see no other way to do it.

        Congratulations on all of the books you have published!

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        1. Yup, The Fegan Method, my business, is a way to learn ANYTHING! It’s a process that I developed and it seems to work with everything from Kindergarten to College-level Statistics, and from Art to Football.
          Most people look at that and the first thing they think is, “Yeah, right… too good to be true.” And yet, it works.

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      1. Thank you, Jim! I was going to include the audio files with the Kindle ebook, but then I realized it would make the book 100 megabytes in size rather than 1 megabyte, so I just posted them here.

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    7. Congratulations Frank! I am putting your book on my Lulu order list. I usually order a few books then ship in one go. Look forward to reading it, hopefully not too far from the future.

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      1. Thank you, Cassa! Although I like the print book, my favorite edition is the pdf file that you can download on this page. You can zoom in on the images to see them more clearly than one can on the printed page. Blessings to you!

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    9. Frank, i listened to a few of these. They are deeper than most people i know dare to delve but God takes me deep too. I am happy you found a place for them.

      I am asking a few people, and am careful and prayerful about who I choose to pray for me. I am 30,000 words into a book, the furthest i have ever traveled. It is about me and the Lord Jesus Christ. I dont think it is a memoir, although I share many memories. It is not an autobiography, for my life is not yet done. It is both truth and fiction, for my memory I know is fractured. Maybe it is a narrative.

      Will you pray for the Lord to arrange my words so I can finish my book well and bring glory to His name, not my name?

      I also ask if i may use your name (first name only) within my pages, for you are one who inspired, among other things, six-sentence stories, and for that, I am so grateful.

      Those of whom I may never meet on earth, I will recognize in heaven.

      Blessings to you and I will listen to more of these as the Lord gives me opportunity.

      I especially like the card house.

      Mary Hood

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      1. Yes, Mary, you are welcome to use my name. I would be honored if you did.

        And yes, I will keep you in my prayers. May the Lord arrange your words so you finish the book well to bring glory to His name. Please pray for me as well. Everything we do, including all this writing, is not for our glory but for His.

        Blessings to you!

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        1. Thank you. My comment came.through as an email. I did not realize it was posted here. Totally unintentional on my end but here i am now, regardless. Just another comfirmation that I usually not aware of where i am going but end up, often, exactly where I need to be.

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      1. I like the pdf file the best of all. One can enlarge the images to see the details. I am considering animating those images in volume 2. The only way to see that would be to view the pdf. Thank you, Dora!

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