In which I am blogging elsewhere
I have two recent entries on other blogs that you might want to check out--they're giving out freebies! You can find me blogging for my publisher about writing enriched content for ebooks--did you know that when you buy one of my ebooks there is always exclusive content in them you can't find anywhere else? True story. There are recipes, letters--all kinds of goodies.
I'm also over at Writerspace chatting about how I created the blueprint for the first Julia Grey book. It's a story I end up telling fairly often because people always want to know how you got started, and they always gape at me when I tell them I stopped writing for a year. ON PURPOSE.
I'm also over at Writerspace chatting about how I created the blueprint for the first Julia Grey book. It's a story I end up telling fairly often because people always want to know how you got started, and they always gape at me when I tell them I stopped writing for a year. ON PURPOSE.
Comments
I loved the Writerspace
I loved the Writerspace entry, especially the part about chucking the book across the room if it didn't catch you in a few pages. My husband and I have the "60 page rule," although sometimes I will give up on a book before that. But we figure, we don't have to take a quiz or write a book report, so, if we aren't engaged, why bother? What especially tickled me to read your comment is that SITG caught me with the first paragraph!Lynn
I did come across your ebooks
I did come across your ebooks with enriched content (think it was at EReader), but they came with the trilogy, and since I already had all three ebooks (plus printed editions), it was a bit much. IF it had been published earlier, say, when the indovidual ebooks came out, I would've bought them. The things is, I don't think most ebook readers even mind paying a bit more to get a nicer-looking digital edition (though it should still cost less than a printed book). Even though I've mainly bought ebooks for more than a year now, I still have very mixed feelings about most of its publishers. More often than not, I feel quite cheated. For one, a lot of my ebooks have no covers, instead it has a grainy text-image. When I bought Thompson's Gaslight Myseries, none of them had covers! Sure, it says "cover page", but what I really get is a page with the title and author of the book. Thanks. I know I paid a few dollars less for the ebook, but that doesn't mean I'm pond scum.Even if I *do* get a cover for my a-few-dollars-less ebook, I get no table of content, even with elegant ebook formats such as Adobe Digital Editions.I'm not asking for much, am I? But! What really gets my goat is when I buy an ebook which costs roughly the same as the printed version--yet I still get no cover, or the table of content is missing. This makes me want to do a HULK SMASH!Ahem. Stephen Fry once compared the Windows OS as a concrete box, and that millions of people work everyday in this kind of environment. Same goes for ebooks, though reading is a leisure activity, which actually makes it worse. Honestly, publishers of ebooks should think 'Mac', not 'Windows'./rant
Family Trees?? Yay!
Family Trees?? Yay!
I am a map junkie, so I would
I am a map junkie, so I would always love to see maps or drawings of real or imagined places your characters have been!!