E-Book Sales! Two of Them! Now Through January 3 Only!

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As happens with some frequency, Open Road Media is having an e-book sale. Actually, two of them. As clipped from the email they sent me: 

ISBN13TitleAuthorPromo TypeCountryStart DateEnd DatePromo Price

9781504036511Tales of Old EarthSwanwick, MichaelORM - Rank BoostCA2024-12-272025-01-03$1.999781504036474In the DriftSwanwick, MichaelORM - Rank BoostUS2024-12-272025-01-03$1.99



Tales of Old Earth is a short story collection and In the Drift is my first novel. If you've been curious about either of them and were hoping to get them cheap... well, here's your chance.
I believe in the soft sell.

And to make this post less boring . . .
When I submitted the manuscript of my first novel to Ace Science Fiction, it was titled simply The Drift. But my editor there quite rightly observed that this made it sound like a horror novel, like The Fog or The Hunger or The Exorcist.
Then they retitled it In the Drift.
It was a terrible title, but I could not think of anything better. 
The novel was a fix-up of three previously published and closely related novellas connected by two short-shorts written to connect them. And the first novella was titled "Mummer Kiss."
A year or so later, I received the French translation from Denoel. It was titled Le baiser du masque. I got out my Petit Larousse (this was before the Web, children) to see what that meant.
It was titled Mummer Kiss.
And I felt like such a fool for not having thought of that myself. 
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