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October 16, 2009
For a limited time, Rollo's first comic adventure, My Inflatable Friend, will be available as a free ebook download in EPUB, Sony Reader, and plain-text formats on SmashWords. List-price ebooks are still available for platforms Kindle, Ingram PDF (DRM), and Mobipocket.If you then yearn to read the sequel, Rubber Babes, you'll have to shell out $1.99.
Like so many players in the 21st century publishing biz, I've been puzzling over what business models will emerge for ebooks. And while we're at ...
October 8, 2009
Last Sunday (October 4) in West Hollywood Park.Here's some of the gang doing the meet-and-greet with aspiring and working writers at the IWOSC booth.
(L to R) Linda Lichtman, showrunner Lyn Corum, Sally Hawkridge, and The Boychik.
Photo by Joshua BarashGerald Everett Jones
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October 5, 2009
October 1, 2009
This Sunday, Oct. 4, West Hollywood Book Fair, West Hollywood Park (just west of the Pacific Design Center), at 4 PM on the stage called The Lounge.Bonfire of the Vanderbilts is a new novel about a Gilded Age art scandal and a murderous love affair, set in Paris and Newport in the early 1890s and in Brentwood in the present day.
I'll also be in the IWOSC booth 2 - 4PM.
Parking free, show free, air still free while it lasts!
(Bring a big straw hat, a bottle of water, an empty backpack, and some ...
September 28, 2009
I've previously defined boychik as a young man with more chutzpah than brains. Georja and I recently reviewed Wagner's opera Siegfried, the third episode in his marathon cycle The Ring. It's playing now at LA Opera.In the myth, Siegfried represents the human race, which in the dawn of history is just coming into its own. In this installment of the story, Siegfried will slay the fearsome dragon who guards the ring--the symbol of ultimate power. Thus will begin the ascendancy of humans and the ...
September 23, 2009
Sony Reader is now (finally) running a consumer-oriented TV ad, and the NY Times reported yesterday on the iRex launch. You can bet Amazon will hype Kindle to the max in the coming weeks, along with its promotion of the Kindle 3 large format in the college textbook market.
Apple is conspicuously absent, although you can use apps like Stanza to read ebooks on your iPhone. But that's hardly a competitive strategy for Apple. I'm betting they come out with a docking screen for some or all of the i...
September 22, 2009
The "lost symbol" in Dan Brown's big bestseller of the same name is a geometric shape called a circumpunct. Which turns out to be the logo of Target Stores. Creeeeeepy!
I bet Manny, Mo, and Jack are in on it, too!*
Many readers probably suspected that The Lost Symbol would be an exposé about the Masons in much the same way that The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons revealed occult lore embedded in the history of the Catholic church. But this latest book from the master of page-turners is neit...
September 17, 2009
The Twelve is a parable reminiscent of The Celestine Prophecy. Aside from my wondering how the Mayans managed to come up with an end-of-time date that turned out to be a nifty number in the Julian calendar, I enjoyed this. I'm not at all objective because Bill Gladstone has been a friend and colleague of mine for about 30 years. Here's affirming that the book will generate a lot of thoughtful buzz.
Gerald Everett Jones
La Puerta Productions
www.lapuerta.tv
Gerald Everett Jones
La Puerta Productions
www.lapuerta.tv
