diff --git a/fanficfare/story.py b/fanficfare/story.py
index 6de6d699..6fa49fb9 100644
--- a/fanficfare/story.py
+++ b/fanficfare/story.py
@@ -148,7 +148,6 @@ except:
                 return (data,imgtype,imagetypes[imgtype])
 
     except:
-        raise
         # No calibre or PIL, simple pass through with mimetype.
         def convert_image(url,data,sizes,grayscale,
                           removetrans,imgtype="jpg",background='#ffffff'):
diff --git a/fanficfare/writers/writer_html.py b/fanficfare/writers/writer_html.py
index 09664b82..39c2d78d 100644
--- a/fanficfare/writers/writer_html.py
+++ b/fanficfare/writers/writer_html.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-# Copyright 2011 Fanficdownloader team, 2016 FanFicFare team
+# Copyright 2011 Fanficdownloader team, 2018 FanFicFare team
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -15,13 +15,16 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 #
 
+from __future__ import absolute_import
 import logging
 import string
 
+# py2 vs py3 transition
+from six import text_type as unicode
+
 import bs4
 
 from .base_writer import *
-
 class HTMLWriter(BaseStoryWriter):
 
     @staticmethod
@@ -107,7 +110,7 @@ ${output_css}
         self._write(out,FILE_START.substitute(self.story.getAllMetadata()))
 
         if self.getConfig('include_images') and self.story.cover:
-            self._write(out,COVER.substitute(dict(self.story.getAllMetadata().items()+{'coverimg':self.story.cover}.items())))
+            self._write(out,COVER.substitute(dict(list(self.story.getAllMetadata().items())+list({'coverimg':self.story.cover}.items()))))
 
         self.writeTitlePage(out,
                             self.HTML_TITLE_PAGE_START,
diff --git a/fanficfare/writers/writer_mobi.py b/fanficfare/writers/writer_mobi.py
index ec7a2599..3806f077 100644
--- a/fanficfare/writers/writer_mobi.py
+++ b/fanficfare/writers/writer_mobi.py
@@ -25,9 +25,6 @@ from ..mobi import Converter
 from ..exceptions import FailedToWriteOutput
 
 # py2 vs py3 transition
-from six import text_type as unicode
-from six import string_types as basestring
-from six import binary_type as bytes
 from six import BytesIO # StringIO under py2
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
diff --git a/fanficfare/writers/writer_txt.py b/fanficfare/writers/writer_txt.py
index 7199311e..9f3c9980 100644
--- a/fanficfare/writers/writer_txt.py
+++ b/fanficfare/writers/writer_txt.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-# Copyright 2011 Fanficdownloader team, 2015 FanFicFare team
+# Copyright 2011 Fanficdownloader team, 2018 FanFicFare team
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 #
 
+from __future__ import absolute_import
 import logging
 import string
 from textwrap import wrap