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July 2, 2013
Self-Publishing for the Rest of Us, by Karen Wyle
Today I'm welcoming author Karen Wyle to my blog with a very timely post (for me anyway) about the reasons for choosing to self-publish. Karen's new Twin-Bred novel, Reach, has just been released and I thoroughly enjoyed the first novel in the series--Twin Bred; you can find my review here)--so I'm really looking forward to reading Reach. Meanwhile, here's Karen's post on the choices and commitments involved in self-publishing a novel--very relevant to me, as I said, since my beloved Divide b...
June 26, 2013
Lawyers, Killers and Endangered Birds ?
I've just got back from a family reunion in England and found an advance copy of Darryl Nyznyk's The Condor Song waiting for me. After sharing the domain of our feathered friends and watching too many movies on the plane, a tale of condors, inspired by the Sierra Club vs Walt Disney, seems just the thing to inspire me. But can I inspire you to read it too ? More importantly, can I inspire you to buy a copy from Amazon on July 1st? Read on and see why...
Author Darryl Nyznyk practiced law for 2...
June 25, 2013
History's mystery and book reviews
I used to say I'd never write historical fiction because it's too easy for someone to prove me wrong when they've really studied the subject. Perhaps that just means I'm too lazy to do the research, or else I'm too scared of my big brother who really does know way more than I ever will about history and politics. But then, if I write science fiction, won't I be subject to science advancing beyond my imagination? If I write of the present day won't someone else know better than I what's really...
June 22, 2013
Virtual Fairground for Real EBooks
Why I like ebooks... I can pack my kindle for a trip in the tiniest space in my bag and have a whole library at my fingertips. I can read five whole books on a plane flight from the US to England without doing my back in carrying them around.Why I don't like ebooks... That kindle gets pretty overloaded after a while and the pages turn as if they're glued with molasses. But help is at hand! Just reset it to "factory settings" and go to Amazon to download the books I really want for my trip. Th...
June 19, 2013
Real world, sci-fi or fantasy?
One school essay question asked "Would you rather have a short exciting life or a long boring one?" I chose long and boring because I'd be able to enjoy so many short exciting ones through fiction over the years. One I've heard of more recently asks "Would you rather live in the real world, a sci-fi future, or a fantasy world?" I'm wondering which answer to give. After all, I've been eager enough to embrace computers and ebooks. Does that mean I really do hanker after living in a sci-fi futur...
June 15, 2013
Sampling Saturday again
The virtual ebook fair looks set to continue through summer and it's filled with great reads for your kindle, kobo, computer or whatever ereader you like to use. (Don't forget, if you haven't got an ereader you can always download one FREE to your machine and read ebooks the same way you read this blog!)I've got another Five Minute Bible Story at http://sheiladeeth.blogspot.com for you to sample (and share with your children, grandchildren and more). Then if you head on over to http://samples...
June 11, 2013
Reading a Romantic Interlude
My first romantic novel, Love on a Transfer, should come out soon with Willow Moon Publishing. One chapter's set in Blackpool, near where my Mum lives, and the other day I saw pictures on the internet showing volunteers climbing up and down The Big One there to raise money for injured soldiers... Those views of the beach and tower certainly took me back. And the view from the top of the Big One reminded me of days when I was braver and younger and dared ride super-roller-coasters with my brot...
June 10, 2013
"I read your book" and a cat tale in paperback
It happened! That moment I've dreamed of for years, that time I've read of with shared delight and secret jealousy in other writers' blogs, that preciously impossible wonderfully glorious moment! A total stranger came up to me and said "I've read your book and I enjoyed it"!
The book she'd read was Flower Child, and the stranger had read it on her kindle--she was even planning to share it on kindle with her daughter. So I smiled for the rest of the day and the day after it, and more. She'd rea...
The book she'd read was Flower Child, and the stranger had read it on her kindle--she was even planning to share it on kindle with her daughter. So I smiled for the rest of the day and the day after it, and more. She'd rea...
June 8, 2013
Are you going to the virtual ebook fair?
It's Sample Saturday again and I'm posting an excerpt from my Five Minute Bible Stories Series (TM) at http://sheiladeethstudies.blogspot.com again in honor of the event. Great for bedtime stories (or so I'm told) and for Sunday School (which I can verify because I've used them there). They're even fun for Bible studies--we used them in a summer women's group one year. So head on over and see familiar stories through slightly different eyes, then visit the virtual fair at http://samplesaturda...
June 6, 2013
What makes a literary novel?
I've just posted reviews for two more novels and would have tagged both as literary, if only I'd thought to create a literary shelf in my Goodreads library. But can you imagine going back through those 952 reviews to see which books should have been literarily shelved? Of course, if someone would sell me more hours in the day (preferably free) I'd give it a go... but no-one's offered yet. So the books are shelved under mystery and cultural instead. Meanwhile I'm wondering, what makes a novel...
