I have to thank Teddypig for spotting this. In his blog today, (here) he pointed out that Penguin is offering The Fountainhead in Kindle format for $27.99. No that’s not a typo. How many ways can we spell insane?? Since I got my Kindle 2, I haven’t bought a single novel in print format, either [...]
I love a good online spat. Childish I know. But when supposedly rational professionals start acting like a bunch of prize idiots, it just gets too funny. Publisher’s Weekly posted an article on their site called: “Agents Weigh the Growth of Alternate Publishing Options”. You can find it here Only the title seems to be [...]
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/05/piracy-again.html I’d never even heard of Mr. Konrath before this month (I’m not much of a thriller reader) but I swear I’m fast becoming a fangirl. He’s becoming the go to guy when it comes to the business side of epublishing/self-publishing from a I-did-it-and-you-can-too successful writer’s point of view. I bought a Kindle copy of [...]
So two of my favorite historical romance authors (Julia Quinn and Lisa Kleypas) have new books coming out next week. Another favorite (Stephanie Laurens) has a new story the end of June. These three are some of my “autobuys”. So I started thinking about the kinds of books that end up as my personal keepers. [...]
http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2010/05/13/review-sinful-by-charlotte-featherstone/ Well, I guess I spoke too soon. I read the review of Sinful by Charlotte Featherstone on Dear Author, was mildly surprised that it was written by a man but didn’t think anything more. Well, about comment line 40 or so, it turns out that John is a 15 year old boy and the [...]
It’s 12:30 am here and I can’t sleep. Sigh… My cat suggests a game of mousie throw. Only when I do, she immediately shoves her toy right back under the closet door. I am not fishing it out for her again (tonight). I do have my limits. From the official RWA emails I’ve seen lately, [...]
Good Lord! This is the first time I’ve tried to use WordPress. Arrrgh!! To call it a steep learning curve is the understatement of the year. I refuse to tell you how long it took me to get WP up and running. You’d just lose all respect for me.