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Okay, I have a book I'm drafting which will be published in ebook only. For reasons that I don't want to reveal (it's a big spoiler for fans of my series, who might wander onto this thread on a google search), I have to have two first person narrators. My biggest worry about this is the possibility of confusion for readers.
I played with the idea of switching at chapter breaks, which I think would be less confusing, but it just isn't going to work, because the narratives have to be intertwined, and it would lead to super short chapters of a scene or two each.
I recently read The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness, and he pulled this feat off quite well by using different fonts for his narrators. Near as I can tell, I can't do that on Kindle or Smashwords. (Can I?) So I was thinking about switching between plain and bold text.
Which do you think is worse?
-Possibly confusing head-hopping every couple scenes all in the same type face
-Large blocks of text in bold
Thanks for your input.
EDIT: Apologies if this should have gone in the formatting subforum.
I played with the idea of switching at chapter breaks, which I think would be less confusing, but it just isn't going to work, because the narratives have to be intertwined, and it would lead to super short chapters of a scene or two each.
I recently read The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness, and he pulled this feat off quite well by using different fonts for his narrators. Near as I can tell, I can't do that on Kindle or Smashwords. (Can I?) So I was thinking about switching between plain and bold text.
Which do you think is worse?
-Possibly confusing head-hopping every couple scenes all in the same type face
-Large blocks of text in bold
Thanks for your input.
EDIT: Apologies if this should have gone in the formatting subforum.
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