Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Sept 17, 2021 15:59:01 GMT
Ha, I did have a topic. If you write science fiction or fantasy, how do you handle the fun and unusual spellings and pronunciations for the characters and places in your books?
I think it would be cool to insert a pronunciation into each word, so that if the reader hovered over it, the pronunciation would pop up. But that probably wouldn't render on kindles, and wouldn't work at all with paperbacks.
I've also considered linking the first mention of a new word to the glossary, but that might make getting back to where they were reading difficult. Do kindles have back buttons like browsers do?
I've also seen writing out the pronunciation in tags like these (theeze) next to the word. And I've seen including it in a footnote at the bottom of the page with an asterisk next to the word. Or you could go old school and not have any explanation and just let readers guess.
How do you prefer to handle this in your books?
