Ruth Nestvold's Blog, page 46
May 29, 2013
I HAS HARD COPY! *g* Yseult published to CreateSpace
After weeks of work, and ten days waiting for the proof, Yseult arrived in Germany today — and it looks gorgeous! See for yourself:
Ok, that last is a bit dusty, I admit. 
Right now, I’m happy I went ahead and took so much time to get this book right, and that I spent the money on one of Joel Friedlander’s templates for the interior. It was still a heck of a lot of work, but here’s what it looks like:
I’m ridiculously proud of myself. *g* So off I went to CreateSpace to approve the proof. Yse...
May 26, 2013
Getting back to the writing: Revisions on Island of Glass
Not a lot of progress on Island of Glass to report for the week, since revisions are hard to quantify. What I can say is that I’m in the middle of chapter four now (of ten), and during this rewrite, I’ve added an additional character as a foil for Chiara. That has resulted in about another 2500 words to Island of Glass, which is now coming in at just under 20,000 words.
It might not be a lot of words for the week, but I don’t think it’s smart to count words while revising. I’m just mentioning...
May 25, 2013
Epic Fantasy Ebook Sale Party!
Just yesterday, I found out about a group promo for epic fantasy, being organized by Vera Nazarian on the Kindle Boards. It started today, but Vera was still accepting participants, so I decided to jump right in. If Yseult and Shadow of Stone aren’t epic fantasy, both coming in at close to 200,000 words, I don’t know what is! I have a freebie scheduled this week for Shadow of Stone, so that wouldn’t qualify — the promo is for sale books between 99c and 2.99. So I reduced the price of Yseult...
May 23, 2013
Almost All the Way Home From the Stars now available on Amazon, iTunes, B&N, & Kobo
I just realized that I never posted the links to Almost All the Way Home From the Stars (the first collection of my stories with Jay Lake) here on my blog, only on Facebook. So without further ado, here are the links to the various ebooks stores where you can buy it:
The CreateSpace version is still in the works. Draft2Digital is a great service, but it’s still in Beta, after all, and the helpful folks there are working on a way to generate a Table of Co...
May 19, 2013
“Story Hunger” up on Amazon, a new mini collection – and various other updates
After getting my story collection with Jay Lake, Almost All the Way Home From the Stars, up on Draft2Digital, I decided to get one more big thing off my to-do list, and finished another collection of my own stories, Story Hunger:
Here’s the blurb:
“Story Hunger” is a short collection of two stories and one flash fiction piece: a tale from the cycle of the Rose knights; a fantasy prose poem; a story of Native American magic and of Raven in an alternate Pacific Northwest.
What these stories have...
May 15, 2013
The Canadian Who Won’t be Returning From the Stars
Ooof. I finally got the first collection of SF stories I’ve written with Jay Lake up to Draft2Digital tonight, Almost All the Way Home From the Stars. Here’s the blurb:
“Almost All the Way Home From the Stars” contains seven science fiction short stories by award winning writers Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold. The settings range from distant worlds, to the near future, to an alternate US where slavery was never abolished. Here a sampling:
“Rivers of Eden”: In a world transformed by a virus affect...
May 11, 2013
Slowly but surely getting there on the paperback version of Yseult
This is what I spent most of the day on today:
I’m not very Photoshop savvy, and my daughter was out and about today, so I decided to tackle it myself. Of course, I had the front cover of Yseult already, designed by the lovely and talented Derek Murphy of Creativindie Covers. I’ve sat beside my daughter many a time while we designed covers together, have tweaked them myself in accordance with feedback. Besides, Britta is moving to the States soon, which will make it a lot harder to work on co...
May 8, 2013
On losing work (and other frustrations)
I spent several hours on Monday doing revisions of Island of Glass: addressing critique comments, filling holes, researching some things I’d left out. It felt really good to have a nice block of time for serious writing again, after all the writing business I’ve been doing lately, what with the formatting for the hard copy version of Yseult and the short story collection I’m putting together of my stories with Jay.
Then yesterday I opened the file — and none of the revisions I did on Monday w...
May 6, 2013
Progress on various books and an interview with me
The weather was finally nice again for a change yesterday, so I took the day off and spent it in the garden. Everything’s a bit late this year, since winter went on forever, but right now, the tulips are blooming like crazy.
I don’t think I’ve been doing enough “replenishing” lately — need to spend more time in the garden, appreciate all the work I’ve put into it over the years.
On the writing work front, I’m moving forward with the science fiction collection with Jay Lake and sent him a copy...
May 4, 2013
Feature of Shadow of Stone today on the Kindle Boards blog
I don’t have much to add, other than I think it’s cool:
http://www.kboards.blogspot.de/2013/05/shadow-of-stone-by-ruth-nestvold.html
Will have more soon on the progress creating the first paper book. PDF has been created and is now being inspected by significant other.
