Thought you might like to be involved in Read An E-Book Week this year. Info is below:

Read an E-Book Week (March 8 – 14) is fast approaching. In preparation for the big event this year we have completely redone our website – and it’s a beauty. http://www.ebookweek.com

This year we welcome several new supporters – Tor.com and Warren Adler to name a few. One, and possibly two, well-known guest writers are working on articles about the future of e-books for our site. We want to give you enough notice to ensure your name appears along with theirs on the “Partners” page. Plan your promotion early and let us know what you will do to promote e-books during Read an E-Book Week.

We note that the International Digital Publishing Forum released the October sales figures from the Association of American Publishers. Although only 12 -15 trade book publishers participated in the survey, the data shows sales of $5.2 million — a 73% increase over the same period in 2007. Even more impressive are the figures released by Ingram’s Education Solutions unit. E-book sales from January to May surpassed the 2007 figures by 400 percent!

So help us celebrate Read an E-Book Week. Mark your calendars for March 8 – 14 and let us know about your promotional event. Most publishers provide a free e-book to visitors who come to their site during that week. If you would like a banner, they are available for downloading at: http://www.ebookweek.com/ebook_banners.html Feel free to resize them to fit your website.

Rita Toews
Founder – Read an E-Book Week

http://camerashy.cemestos.com

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“I’m sitting on tenterhooks (isn’t that what they’re called) waiting for the rerelease of P.C. Hodgell’s first two Jamethiel Dreamweaver novels as an omnibus (this time called the Godstalker Chronicles) by her first big publisher BAEN (who already offer all the current releases in ebook format – and there’s an excellent series synopsis at the link) not just as a hardcover, but as trade paperback.
I so hope they sell well, so that she not only sells the newest book in the series (which ought to be delivered to the publisher sometime next year), but gets additional contracts for more in the series, now that she’s not tied down with a regular day job anymore. She’s been writing them since the 80ies and I think of her as one of the best epic female fantasy authors that no one knows (because her previous publishers were very small or – like Meisha Merlin – went out of business).
So I spam threads like this whenever I get the chance, in case people haven’t heard of her yet.”

A quote from the ebook collection at webscriptions.net:

Richly-alluring High Fantasy from a Master Fantasist Ripe for Rediscovery!
Have you been looking for a fantasy world-builder on the level of Patricia McKillip, Guy Gavriel Kay, Fritz Leiber or—dare we say it? Yes, we dare!—J.R.R.Tolkien himself? P.C. Hodgell is nigh.
Welcome to the world of the Kencyrath, where ivory-armored, carnivorous horses travel in herds called “rages,” pretty butterflies might very well suck your life’s blood, and tree leaves migrate south for the winter. It’s a dangerous and beautiful place where it’s easy to get yourself killed. And resurrected. And possibly become bound to somebody else’s soul in the process.

Excerpt from the first chapter in the first book of the omnibus, God Stalk.
Excerpt from the first chapter of the second book in the omnibus, Dark of the Moon

This is one continuing saga, so the second excerpt might not make much sense without reading the first book ^^..

It’s SIR Pterry!

have a look at the other reviews while you are there…

I’ve come up with a method for quickly and conveniently archiving all of your ficlets, as well as the ficlets other people wrote connected to them.

But rather than me tell you about it, I’ll let Wil Wheaton do it.

And a fantastic podcast, StarShipSofa: http://www.starshipsofa.com/

First the article:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28390773/

Then the toy:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/tools.html?pg=3

or

http://www.parents-choice.org/product.cfm?product_id=15562&award=xx&from=XM%20Take%205

JJB

My First “Finished” Story from 2002 finally got sold six years later and now published: “Le Grand Bazar” is over at Space Westerns.

Thanks!

Dr. Phil