Colleen Cowley's Blog - Posts Tagged "the-opposite-of-magic"
In print
I love ebooks -- they're so convenient. I can read a few pages on my phone whenever I grab a spare minute or two, wherever I happen to be.
But there's still something about a physical book, isn't there?
So I'm thrilled to have a print edition of The Opposite of Magic out. All thanks due to my husband, who badgered me in a loving fashion to do it and then put a lot of time into helping it come to pass.
To celebrate, I'm trying out a three-book giveaway on Goodreads.
Goodreads thinks there's something about physical books, too. No ebooks allowed in giveaways.
And when I handed my librarian mother a proof version of the novel, she stared at it in something like wonder. My daughter has a book. I didn't get quite the same reaction when the ebook went up for sale last fall. She was excited -- my God, she'd been hearing about it and reading various versions of it for years, poor woman -- but ... there's just something about a printed book.
But there's still something about a physical book, isn't there?
So I'm thrilled to have a print edition of The Opposite of Magic out. All thanks due to my husband, who badgered me in a loving fashion to do it and then put a lot of time into helping it come to pass.
To celebrate, I'm trying out a three-book giveaway on Goodreads.
Goodreads thinks there's something about physical books, too. No ebooks allowed in giveaways.
And when I handed my librarian mother a proof version of the novel, she stared at it in something like wonder. My daughter has a book. I didn't get quite the same reaction when the ebook went up for sale last fall. She was excited -- my God, she'd been hearing about it and reading various versions of it for years, poor woman -- but ... there's just something about a printed book.
A woohoo
The idea of the Book Readers Appreciation Group's B.R.A.G. Medallion is pretty cool -- the indie-book version of the Good Housekeeping seal.
So I did a little dance, as much as you can dance while sitting in a computer chair, when The Opposite of Magic got a medallion. Yay!
My life's been so crazy this year that Project No. 2 -- a trilogy -- has been slow going. It'll be done in roughly a decade at the rate I have time to work on it. But whenever I do snatch a few hours here and there, I get that fizzy this-is-fun feeling. As much as intrigue and assassination attempts can properly be described as "fun."
So I did a little dance, as much as you can dance while sitting in a computer chair, when The Opposite of Magic got a medallion. Yay!
My life's been so crazy this year that Project No. 2 -- a trilogy -- has been slow going. It'll be done in roughly a decade at the rate I have time to work on it. But whenever I do snatch a few hours here and there, I get that fizzy this-is-fun feeling. As much as intrigue and assassination attempts can properly be described as "fun."
