---
title: "Dirtside to Spaceside – the novel"
date: 2003-11-29
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2003"
    url: "/tag/2003.md"
---

# Dirtside to Spaceside – the novel

I’ve published my Nanowrimo novel on Read/Write Web [as an HTML file](https://web.archive.org/web/20040225151021/http://www.readwriteweb.com/gems/nanowrimo_novel_nov03_0.9.htm). The PDF version will have to wait till Monday. I tried to use the [Adobe Online Conversion service](https://web.archive.org/web/20040225151021/http://createpdf.adobe.com/), but I couldn’t get the file size under 600KB for some reason (which is odd because the Word file is only 350KB). So I’ll use Distiller at my work on Monday.

***Update, Monday 1 Dec**: A PDF version of my novel is now available:*

**[Dirtside to Spaceside (PDF – 344KB)](https://web.archive.org/web/20040225151021/http://www.readwriteweb.com/gems/nanowrimo_novel_nov03_0.91.pdf)**

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2003/11/29.html#a160))*