Immortal on Amazon Kindle

Ebook challenges part two Yesterday I dove back into the Ebook fray for two reasons: Immortal was still not set up on the Kindle; and we’d gotten back feedback from Smashwords on the ebook version we’d uploaded that required addressing. As you know, I had issues reformatting Immortal to accommodate the Smashwords Style Guide, but…

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Immortal as eBook

The important news first You can now purchase Immortal as an eBook in any format your heart desires thanks to the folks over at Smashwords.  Go there now to buy your copy: Immortal eBook. EBook formatting is hell The book was actually “available” on Kindle at the beginning of November, for about half a day.…

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In defense of Amazon

Outrage You have, I am sure, heard at least a portion of the story: Amazon.com allowed an e-book that instructed pedophiles on how to be better pedophiles (I’m guessing) to go on sale through their vast retail empire.  When the book was discovered– and I’m sort of interested in figuring out what search parameters led…

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International and electronic Immortal

Death of the “local” customer As I have discussed before, the e-book revolution sort of took me by surprise.  I still like paper books, but I’m coming to realize that every day I cling to them is another day for me to look like a guy on horseback on a freeway. And I’m still trying…

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Promoting Immortal

The month in summary It has been quite a good month for Immortal, the little novel that could, but only after six years of couldn’t.  On penalty of death, I can’t mention specific sales numbers, but if you count both the books bought through Amazon and from my personal supply… well, we did okay. And…

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Immortal: a short delay

Publishing is F-U-N! I held off on formally announcing this for as long as I could, but it looks as if there is going to be a delay in availability for Immortal.  How big?  Five or six days. Not big, in other words.  But since I’ve been touting the very entertaining 10-1-10 release date for…

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IMMORTAL: Resale cover

Resale cover Below is a copy of the first official resale cover for Immortal.  We could fit only one blurb on this cover, so the others are inside on the front.  Additional blurbs will be either added to the back– we may take away some text there in the future– or included in the front,…

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Brave new world of e-publishing

A long time ago in a land far, far away Way back in 1999–which (and I hope you’re sitting down) was eleven years ago(!) (!!)– I was asked a question by an online friend, said question being this: do I have a novel I would like her to publish? This is a question many of…

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Immortal on Amazon.com

I might make this more complicated than it needs to be Here is the short version of the larger point of this blog entry: Immortal is listed on Amazon, and you can add it to your wish list right now by clicking here. But wait, don’t click that yet.  I have more to tell you…

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