I am– once again– trying to get a clean manuscript of The Benevolence Archives uploaded to Amazon.  The version on Smashwords hasn’t been touched, because that’s the one I actually get movement from and I’m not fixing it until this is ironed out.

If I look at my document in Word, it looks like this:

(“Queris” is yellow because I used the search function to find this particular spot.)

Note that there are spaces between all the words.

Now look at one happens in Amazon’s online previewer after it converts the file for Kindle:

Note that the space between “to” and “the” has been arbitrarily removed.

Note also that this happens all over the damn place.  And it appears to not only be arbitrary and random, but unfixable– and Amazon’s spellcheck isn’t even finding those mistakes any longer, as it reported this manuscript to be free of typos, ignoring not only the spacing errors it introduced but also words like “Queris.”

I am angryified at the moment.

EDIT:  I think I’ve got it.  There are still a couple of spots of wonkiness but at least it doesn’t look like it’s filled with typographical errors any longer.  God, that was annoying.