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I recently received cover flats for the mass market paperback of Captain Vorpatril's Alliance. Amazon gives its pub date as August 26.
The foil never does scan very well, alas. How visible and/or striking it is on a bookstore rack tends to depend on the angle of the light striking it.
Another view here...
http://www.amazon.com/Captain-Vorpatr...
I see it has the "Look Inside" feature, always a plus.
Speaking of e-book marketing, I have lately learned how to use the "Let us send your Kindle a free sample" (which I think duplicates the "Look Inside" offering), and found it very nice indeed for armchair shopping. All I need is a float chair, and I can live like the characters in Wall-E.
Ta, L.
The foil never does scan very well, alas. How visible and/or striking it is on a bookstore rack tends to depend on the angle of the light striking it.
Another view here...
http://www.amazon.com/Captain-Vorpatr...
I see it has the "Look Inside" feature, always a plus.
Speaking of e-book marketing, I have lately learned how to use the "Let us send your Kindle a free sample" (which I think duplicates the "Look Inside" offering), and found it very nice indeed for armchair shopping. All I need is a float chair, and I can live like the characters in Wall-E.
Ta, L.
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I don't recommend living like the characters in Wall-E. IIRC, they were NOT a very healthy bunch.
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Ed wrote: "I don't recommend living like the characters in Wall-E. IIRC, they were NOT a very healthy bunch."I much enjoyed Wall-E, but I thought it embedded a very Californian view of the world. The Lamarckian evolution was a bit bemusing, too.
Ta, L.
Easy access to books tempts me into a life of the mind sort of state as well!
I use the samples as a sort of "wish list" of books I'm interested in reading at some point, but am not quite ready to buy or borrow. Having the samples on my Kindle keeps them from fading into forgotten. So the answer to the question What was that book? is often, Let me go look.
Hm, That's a good trick. I usually jot titles down on scrap paper, which then gets lost or thrown out.Which does keep my reading pile down to something less than my life expectancy, but still.
Ta, L.
I've bought too many books that looked good in stores or online. But if I don't already know the author, the peek inside or kindle sample has prevented a lot of bad purchases. My kindle sample list is insanely long though too.If I enjoy the sample, it moves to the top of the to buy list.
Not so long ago my husband came home with «Miles in love». One day I picked it up and entered it. And then I stayed in there for one and a half day before looking up again. I waited some days clearing my head and then sneaked into my son’s room and got away with his Kindle. After some days my son questioned me what was happening to his Kindle, he kept getting new messages about books being bought. I told him not to worry, that it was just me reading through a series of books. That he would love to read them when I was finished, but that he shouldn’t expect his kindle back in at least a week. Or two.
Neat!The advent of Kindle (and iPad and Nook) have made a huge difference in the availability and sales of my backlist, I must say.
When do you get your own Kindle? Birthday, Christmas, anniversary...?
Ta, L.
I’ll forward the question to my husband, as a suggestion for any of the occasions. In this post I also found the answer to why this book had another price than the others, I was so new to the Vorkosigan saga that I did not know this book was new. I really, really enjoyed it tremendously. The first time I read one of your books was when I just stumbled across the Paladin of souls. And until now that book and The Curse of Chalion were the only two I knew about. But speaking so warmly of the Paladin for such a long period it made an impression on my husband and the next time he saw your name on a book he picked it up.
I have asked around and looked at Norwegian book-sites, it seems like there are not so many people here that knows your books. So I guess when we do find one and your universe and totally amazing storytelling hits us we just want to have it all, and Kindle will come in handy.
Beate wrote: "I’ll forward the question to my husband, as a suggestion for any of the occasions. In this post I also found the answer to why this book had another price than the others, I was so new to the Vor..."
Norway, cool!
I have not had many sales for translations in the Scandinavian countries -- just Shards of Honor in Finnish, so far, and that did not do well for its small-press publisher. I have no idea how large or active the SF markets in northern Europe are, or what the higher-end sales possibilities may be. Do any F or SF titles do well there, in translation or not?
And, yes, my career generally has always been dependent on word-of-mouth.
Curious, L.
Most Norwegians who read SF and fantasy do so in English. Even my children have read English books from the age of 11. (They started out with Narnia, already well known from Norwegian translations.) With an exemption of books like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson and others of that kind, mostly targeting younger readers, there is not much SF and fantasy translated. Even writers such as Neil Gaiman are mostly known just to a minority of readers.
Also, the good fantasy writers we have in Norway are not translated into English. This is a pity. It is not a large marked for them here, not so strange since we are just 5 million people. I do think you would have loved to read a book called “Song for Eirabu - Slaget på Vigrid” . https://www.goodreads.com/series/5880...
I do know that novels are normally published in 3000 copies and that for writers who are not best sellers 2000 copies sold is considered “not bad”. (The libraries are given 1500 copies.)We rate a book as a bestseller in Norwegian if it has sold more than 5000 copies. Usually when it is sold in such an amount it will sell a lot more, trough book clubs, and more public knowledge of the book.
We have a small, new book publisher which is specialising in translating books into Norwegian. I do hope they will succeed: http://vendettaforlag.no/forfattere
I have really no idea about the rest of the Scandinavian countries, but I do know people who might know, so I will keep my ears open.
I must say, I am going to start collecting the paperbacks because I've just become a true Vork-head (is that how you call your fans?... or the dendariiies). I do love that your books are available on electronic format. I have a very hard time holding fat paperbacks or hardbacks for long periods of time (early onset arthritis), so my Nook with Glowlight is something I treasure very much and the ability to get an author's backlists is very important to me. I must say, I love Ivan. Miles is amazing, but... scary as in I'd feel like a blathering idiot next to him, but Ivan... Ivan is cuddly. So, I am really happy Captain Vorpatril's Alliance is coming out in paperback. I am looking forward to those artistic renditions of Tej and Rish.
Vivian wrote: "I must say, I am going to start collecting the paperbacks because I've just become a true Vork-head (is that how you call your fans?... or the dendariiies). I do love that your books are available..."Heh. "Bujold readers" usually sums you all up -- there is more to my work than the Vorkosiverse, after all. Also, my surname is fairly unique in the field, so there's not too much chance of a mix-up.
E-books have been working very well for me as both a writer and a reader -- not arthritis yet (though it looms, starting in my spine, apparently), but pinching open paperbacks for long stretches gives me tennis elbow, of all things. Hardly seems fair -- the injuries of exercise with none of the benefits.
Ta, L.
Lois wrote: "Vivian wrote: "I must say, I am going to start collecting the paperbacks because I've just become a true Vork-head (is that how you call your fans?... or the dendariiies). I do love that your book..."I found your work through your Chalion series... which I do hope you will resume some day (I am a fantasy reader first. You're the only sci-fi author I read. You and Jules Verne). And I had a blast reading the Sharing Knife series. That being said... there is just something about the Vorkorsigan saga that is spellbinding. I think you won me at Cordelia.
