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September 22, 2012
We have a Winner in the September Goodreads Giveaway!
We have a Winner in the September 2012 Goodreads Giveaway for a copy of
"SCARECROWS: A DANDY World" and a SWAG BAG! Congratulations to our Winner J.D.! We hope you enjoy the read and your SWAG!
"SCARECROWS: A DANDY World" and a SWAG BAG! Congratulations to our Winner J.D.! We hope you enjoy the read and your SWAG!
September 21, 2012
SCARECROWS up on Kindle for FREE Today
Yep, you can get "SCARECROWS: A DANDY World" on Kindle today for FREE... if you do not have a Kindle you can send it to your phone or download Kindle for PC for free... Please pass the news on to people you think might be interested. Hope you read it and enjoy it!
September 10, 2012
SCARECROWS - Giveaway Winners
Congratulations to our August 2012 giveaway winners - Maureen, Zoey42, and Amalia -- for SCARECROWS: A DANDY World, and I posted their signed novel and SWAG Bag today. We also have our second winner, for Europe. In a little less than an hour we will have our third winner for Asia! I will be posting the books and SWAG Bags to the Europe and Asia winners on Thursday. We are finding all this very exciting, and cannot wait to hear back from the winners to see if they enjoyed the book and liked their SWAG! Also I want to hear back from folks so I know they actually got their goodies, hopefully safe and sound. Best Regards, WE
"SCARECROWS: A DANDY World" now on KDP Select
SCARECROWS: A DANDY World now available on Kindle and through KDP Select!
http://www.amazon.com/SCARECROWS-A-DA...
http://www.amazon.com/SCARECROWS-A-DA...
August 24, 2012
Finally, Kindle US is LIVE!
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0091HBUPW -- now just waiting for it to be linked to the print copy ;)
August 23, 2012
Kindle is LIVE!
Scarecrows is live on Kindle now, the pages for the UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy are all showing. For some reason the US is not up yet, go figure.
However, those interested in Europe can get their Kindle versions now!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0091HBUP...
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0091HBUPW
https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0091HBUPW
https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0091HBUPW
https://www.amazon.it/dp/B0091HBUPW
Huzzah!
However, those interested in Europe can get their Kindle versions now!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0091HBUP...
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0091HBUPW
https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0091HBUPW
https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0091HBUPW
https://www.amazon.it/dp/B0091HBUPW
Huzzah!
August 22, 2012
"SCARECROWS: A DANDY World" Giveaways
Wow, I looked at the numbers for the Giveaways and Goodreads members have really responded in a positive way. We have the SWAG Bags ready to go as soon as Goodreads notifies us who the winners are! Please remember, if you are a winner, let us know when you get your items in the post. Especially for overseas. We will be sitting in the dark, not knowing you got your loot, if you do not let us know you DID get it ;) We really want to know that people actually get their SWAG and signed copies of "SCARECROWS: A DANDY World".
August 18, 2012
E-book conversion process = Tartarus
A number of folks have asked us over the last few weeks when we will have an ‘e-book’ edition of “SCARECROWS: A DANDY World” available. I can tell you now that we should have it up within the next few days. I wanted to explain why there was such a delay in getting our e-book edition out.
We put in for a ‘Kindle’ conversion soon after we published on 21 May 2012. When we got the draft back we found a number of errors. So, Jonathan carefully compared [three times] the hard copy edition with the Kindle draft, noted every error in a separate document, and sent the list back to our ‘Kindle Conversion Team’. The Team was very responsive, and apologetic, regarding the errors and got immediately to work on fixing the draft. We are very happy with the responsiveness and professionalism of the CreateSpace Kindle Conversion Team. There was a learning curve, as well, because we had never dealt with the intricacies of publishing an e-book before.
Now, we could have just run with the flawed edition, and gotten it out there on the market quickly. Many of our friends who voraciously read e-books have told us that they often find many errors in their e-book editions when compared to their hard copy editions of the same books. We are wondering if that is because OCR technology may be used to convert the book to an e-book. Anyway, Jonathan and I made a conscious decision that we did not want to put out something that we would consider grievously flawed. We want to be proud of our product, and make sure that the folks who purchase the e-book edition get one that is comparable to the hard copy edition.
After all, it is all up to us, we are doing all of the work on this end. The ‘buck stops here’ so to speak. Frankly, this portion of it was all up to Jonathan. I was there for moral support, to make phone calls, to bounce questions off of, feed him [literally, spiritually, and emotionally] and to crack the whip when needed. Jonathan is the slightly 'Left Brained' Taurus type, and I am the 'Left and Right Brained' Leoness type -- which part of my brain I am using depends on my mood. Yes, I am a big cat -- I accept this fact and understand it. So, in this instance he is better with confirming the position of a word in a novel, and hanging paintings straight...
We just got the corrected e-book draft back this evening. We will go over it this weekend to make sure all the errors were addressed. If they have been sorted out, we will launch the e-book edition shortly thereafter.
Such are the joys of self-publishing, but with great power comes great responsibility – and work ;)
We put in for a ‘Kindle’ conversion soon after we published on 21 May 2012. When we got the draft back we found a number of errors. So, Jonathan carefully compared [three times] the hard copy edition with the Kindle draft, noted every error in a separate document, and sent the list back to our ‘Kindle Conversion Team’. The Team was very responsive, and apologetic, regarding the errors and got immediately to work on fixing the draft. We are very happy with the responsiveness and professionalism of the CreateSpace Kindle Conversion Team. There was a learning curve, as well, because we had never dealt with the intricacies of publishing an e-book before.
Now, we could have just run with the flawed edition, and gotten it out there on the market quickly. Many of our friends who voraciously read e-books have told us that they often find many errors in their e-book editions when compared to their hard copy editions of the same books. We are wondering if that is because OCR technology may be used to convert the book to an e-book. Anyway, Jonathan and I made a conscious decision that we did not want to put out something that we would consider grievously flawed. We want to be proud of our product, and make sure that the folks who purchase the e-book edition get one that is comparable to the hard copy edition.
After all, it is all up to us, we are doing all of the work on this end. The ‘buck stops here’ so to speak. Frankly, this portion of it was all up to Jonathan. I was there for moral support, to make phone calls, to bounce questions off of, feed him [literally, spiritually, and emotionally] and to crack the whip when needed. Jonathan is the slightly 'Left Brained' Taurus type, and I am the 'Left and Right Brained' Leoness type -- which part of my brain I am using depends on my mood. Yes, I am a big cat -- I accept this fact and understand it. So, in this instance he is better with confirming the position of a word in a novel, and hanging paintings straight...
We just got the corrected e-book draft back this evening. We will go over it this weekend to make sure all the errors were addressed. If they have been sorted out, we will launch the e-book edition shortly thereafter.
Such are the joys of self-publishing, but with great power comes great responsibility – and work ;)
