What’s Happening: Work is underway to add native Markdown import support to LibreOffice Writer. This development, led in collaboration with a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) developer, aims to enable opening and editing of Markdown files (.md) using the MD4C Markdown parser.
That’s nice! After that, we will only need a better/optimized epub export tool to be able to easily self-publish using only dear LO Writer :)