June 15, 2002
Volume 1 No. 30
ISSN 1530-5287
eBook Ecstasy
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eBook Ecstasy is a free monthly newsletter aimed at introducing readers to great ebooks. In upcoming issues, we plan to include information on worthy ebook news. So, epublishers can feel free to send us their press releases about innovations, authors should send notification of book signings, awards or other achievements and readers should provide feedback as to the features you would like to see added to eBook Ecstasy. This is *your* newsletter.
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Content
Special Announcement
ePublishing News
Market News
Sponsors
Tech Corner
E-Book Reviews
New Releases
Classifieds
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Featured E-Author: John Gorman
Featured E-Author: Joyce and Jim Lavene
Featured E-Publisher: Terry R.L. Williams
Featured Reviewer: Cindy Penn
Featured Reviewer: Harriet Klausner
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***Special Announcement***
E-authors and E-publishers - If you would like to contribute an article to eBook Ecstasy,
please contact me so we can highlight you and your web sites. E-book reviewers, I am especially
interested in four star reviews of upcoming releases.
Lida E. Quillen 
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2002 Hugo Award Nominees available at Fictionwise.com.
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Allie McCormack has an author interview up at Escape to Romance:
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His story, "Ishaak's Blade" is currently appearing at Quantum Muse
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Ms. Lowenstein and Ms. Hyder are two of more than twenty Poets from
around the world who contributed work to The World Healing Book
and The Book of Hope, a direct response to the fall of the towers
and its outcome around the world.
Poems by both Terry and Annette Marie will appear in upcoming issues
of Twilight Times ezine.
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Awe-Struck E-Books will be open to general submissions for a
short time. Go to the Authors Submissions page to read the instructions
for submitting a manuscript. Submissions may only be open until July.
Domhan Books now open to submissions from the 1st to the 15th
of each month.
Electrifying Mysteries Short Story Contest. Grand Prize $100.
First Prize is publication in the first Ebooks Mystery Short Story Anthology
and one free copy of the electronic edition. All entries must be post marked
by Sept. 30, 2002
New Concepts Publishing is open to submissions.
NovelBooks, Inc. is offering a Science Fiction Short Story Contest
for the best science fiction short story around a space station. Open to
published and unpublished authors. Submissions will be accepted through
midnight, July 31. Total total number of entries is limited to 60. ~ For
contest details, write: gail@novelbooksinc.com
Whistling Shade pays $20 for stories. $10 for poetry.
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Purchase of the hardcover version of War of Honor by David Weber
will include a free CD-ROM with e-books of all available Honor Harrington
books on it.
Romancing The Web Reviews is temporarily closing.
Shadowmarch, an episodic online fantasy publishing project by
popular author Tad Williams will soon cease.
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"Are There Legal Limits to Web Linking?" from ABC News
"Automating Your Ebook Delivery System: Part One" by Eva Almeida, ebooksnbytes.com.
CyberRead, Inc. and MobiPocket Announce Partnership. CyberRead adds
Cross-Platform eBook format to eBook offerings.
eMartCart™. Free shopping cart system for PayPal Business or Premier
accounts.
Mals-E full featured shopping cart. Free.
Open Source eCommerce Solution.
Option cart is free solution for small businesses seeking an easier
way of handling products into their Mals-E Shopping cart.
The Franklin eBookMan operating system now comes with the MobiPocket
reader, which will display text, HTML and PDB (Palm format) ebooks.
Samsung computer with folding screen is aimed at ebooks.
Voyager - flip pad workstation from Xentex.
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Outlining Made Easy
Joyce and Jim Lavene
Most writers hate outlining. Some are terrified of it. Non-fiction writers
are used to it as a necessity. Fiction writers stay as far away as they
can. But outlining can be the fiction writer’s best friend, especially
the fiction novel writer.
Outlining accomplishes 3 very important functions:
· Takes the writer from the
brainstorming aspect of creating the novel to putting the ideas in a logical
order.
· Gives the writer a chance
to take a step back and get an overview of a large piece of work.
· Helps focus your creativity
on your writing because you already know where you’re going.
Outlining prevents getting lost or repeating your ideas. When you see
the order of your work in front of you in an outline, you can change sequence
before you begin to write, helping to prevent rewrites or revisions.
Some writers believe that you can’t be creative without keeping your
ideas close to you, not writing them down or discussing them before you
begin the novel. These are seat-of-your pants writers who would rather
be boiled in oil than create an outline. That’s fine until you get to chapter
17 and suddenly your plot is not where it should be and you’re writing
the same ideas that you wrote in chapter 3. And what about that sagging
middle?
Most professional writers have to be able to discuss their storylines
with editors and agents. They don’t have the luxury of being silently creative
or keeping their plot a secret before they write it. Every writer should
be able to detail their ideas for a novel in an outline or synopsis as
well as minimize them into a single sentence. It’s just what writers do
at one time or another in their professional career.
Let’s throw away the old notions about outlining that we learned in
school. Your outline only needs to be what you need to express your ideas
for each chapter of your book.
· An outline doesn’t have
to have Roman numerals.
· It doesn’t have to be broken
down into subsections. Or complete sentences.
· It doesn’t have any rules
that you don’t give it. This isn’t a 6th grade English assignment!
· It isn’t engraved in stone.
Your outline should be expansive, creative and flexible. Think of it as
a travel guide to where you’re going-not an inescapable prison barge.
If you can’t write a page that basically describes what you want to
happen in each chapter, write a paragraph. If you can’t write a paragraph,
write a sentence or two. You can always go back and fill in as you discover
more about your work.
Your outline can:
· Define your beginning and
end.
· Place character changes
· Show shifts in time and
place within the story.
Okay! You're ready to outline!
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Joyce and Jim Lavene have written and sold forty novels, both in print
and electronic format, since 1999, (including the award winning Sharyn
Howard mystery series) as well as a wide array of non-fiction articles
and short stories. They are active in local and national writer's groups,
where they lecture and give workshops on the craft of writing. They live
in North Carolina with their three children, two grandchildren, and assorted
cats, dogs, computers, and herbs.
They welcome readers to their websites at www.joyceandjimlavene.com
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Copyright © 2002 Joyce and Jim Lavene
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Writing Historical Fiction
John Gorman
In writing historical fiction, the most important element can be summed
up in one word: authenticity.
Obviously, the history in your novel must accord with the known facts
of the time, especially when real persons and events play a prominent role.
Straying from this base turns the work into fantasy, not an inferior genre,
but something quite different. Not letting your readers know at the start which
genre they are dealing with can severely impede that "suspension of disbelief"
needed to keep them reading.
e.g. A current e-novel deals with Hitler's efforts to do away with President
Roosevelt, because the dictator feared his interference with the "final
solution" for the Jews. Actually, Franklin Roosevelt did nothing
to hinder the Holocaust, although its horrors were well known to the American
government. A reader aware of these facts would find this book tough going,
no matter how well it was written.
The second area in which authenticity is crucial is details. Get a few
important ones badly wrong, and you've lost your readers forever. To help
ward off these errors, there is a series of books from Writer's Digest,
entitled Daily Life in _________. From these, it is possible to find out
when various inventions came on the scene, and how long it took them to
become part of people's routine. You can learn how dangerous it actually
was to go from one side of London to another in 1686. What kinds of crime
and punishment were the order of the day? Where were pirates operating,
and what were their tactics and goals? How did someone become a pirate
anyway?
Obviously, there is no need to make yourself an expert in the period
or to master much more that an few convincing and accurate details within
a well researched historical context.
Sometimes, however, you may have to deal with a time for which there
are few sources, and even they are doubtful.
For Part One of my own King of the Romans, the sole original
sources were a paragraph in Gregory of Tours, the official historian of
the Franks, writing a century after the events of my novel had taken place,
and some letters from Bishop Sidonius to a man who may have been the hero
of my novel. For the second half, I relied upon contemporary historians
to give me an idea of the laws, customs and usages of the time. Individual
characters and events, however, were my own invention.
Many cultures have left us no written records, and what we know of them
comes mostly from ancient ruins and burial sites. Here, you try to learn
enough from archaeology to avoid obvious "howlers," like having a Mayan
princess ride off in a carriage or letting a tribe of Neanderthals be chased
by dinosaurs.
Emotional authenticity is by far the the most difficult, as we try to
project ourselves backward into the minds and hearts of our characters.
Historical accounts tell us how people acted, but they rarely give us much
insight into how they felt. For that information, it is best to turn to
the fiction of the time. e.g. Virgil's Aeneid is hardly reliable as a historical
account of the founding of Rome, but it is an excellent source for how Romans believed
they should feel about these events in the past, and how they should conduct
themselves in the present.
Jane Austen's novels are far more the emotional history of her characters
than they are of the great events of the time, which are barely mentioned.
Anyone writing about that period would be hard pressed to find a better
guide to how people in the early 19th Century British upper middle class
felt about themselves and each other. For the middle of that century, Charles
Dickens is enormously helpful, as are Henry James and Edith Wharton for
the turn of the Twentieth, etc. Even bad literature can tell us much about
people's emotional lives.
As we come nearer to our own time, magazines and newspapers open a window
onto the day-to-day backdrop of people's lives and, by inference at least,
their attitude toward those lives. e.g. What magazines were "ladies" supposed
to read? What lessons were they expected to learn from them? What stories
were regarded as suitable for growing boys? Who were the characters to be imitated or shunned?
No matter how much we study, however, we are always looking backward
though our own eyes from our own lives, the only ones we can really know.
But this knowledge can protect us from allowing wishful thinking to make
our characters think and act in ways that were not just unusual, but literally
inconceivable, in their day.
No amount of research, however, is a substitute for good writing, for
interesting, plausible stories of people we care about. Writers owe it
to their readers not to put obstacles in their path, not to trip them up
with historical blunders that shatter the
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John Gorman is a freelance journalist based in Miami Florida and a 2000
Eppie finalist with his historical novel, King of the Romans, e-published
by Awe-Struck.net
Copyright © 2002 John Gorman
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Terry R.L. Williams, Publisher of Electric eBook Publishing
eBe: Why did you get started as an ebook publisher?
We started epublishing because we saw fewer and fewer authors being
able to break into the traditional print market. Publishing has become
overwhelmed by the explosion of internet access to information. The end
result is more people are writing than ever before, but these same writers
aren't able to get their books to market due to limitations of entering
the marketplace.
We thought that by creating a process that allowed authors to get into
the marketplace, the quality of their work could be exposed to the world.
In our process, we eliminate the technical difficulties of the author's
work and assist in marketing through both traditional methods and the Internet.
eBe: Do epublishers currently have a reputation for producing
quality novels?
Epublishing, like their traditional counterparts, have strong publishers
and weak publishers. The quality of the book, from a technical merit standpoint,
is no better or worse than in the traditional model of publishing. The
process is identical, except that an ebook is printed to an electronic
media (disk, CD, hard drive) rather than a paper media. Electric eBook
Publishing strives to create quality novels.
eBe: What will you do to earn a good reputation for your company?
Reputation is a very subjective thing. It totally depends on the perception
of competence whether it be true or false. Part of the process we go through
is careful reading of talent and content in each submission. When we find
a mix we feel is marketable, we issue a contract with the author to produce
the book. What we find is, regardless of talent, much of the marketability
of the book depends on the amount of time the author and the publisher
spend in promoting the book to targeted readers. Marketability = sales
= reputation.
eBe: What changes, good or bad, have you recently seen in the
epublishing industry?
There have been both good and bad changes. Of the good changes, the
most notable is the slowly growing acceptance in certain areas of ebooks.
These areas include education, science, technical journals, and data intensive
non-fiction.
The difficulty is that many new epublishers get into the business expecting
a fast take-up by the public centred around the fiction market. The fiction
market is the most difficult market to break into. As a result, there is
a high failure rate among epublishers. This is similar to traditional publishing.
One of the key issues still evolving around this business is the standardization
of a programming language that allows a functional general ebook reader
to access the many different demands of electronic publishing. These include
hypertext links, video, audio, and numerous other interactive aspects.
There is also a great deal of controversy around encryption and protection
of ebook files. The higher the level of protection, the fewer devices able
to access it. This creates a distribution nightmare. If half the money
spent by publishers on encryption was spent on marketing, more authors
and publishers would be profitable.
eBe: What do you have to offer that perhaps traditional (print)
publishers do not?
Speed to market, ease of access, updatability of materials, interactivity,
and lower market entry costs. The author perceptions around this are still
in the formative stages though, and as a result many of the books being
written are not utilizing the capabilities that make epublishing unique.
eBe: What genres do you offer?
We presently offer fiction, non-fiction, inspirational, and interactive
children's books. However, our focus is changing toward educational materials
which will enable young people to learn how to utilize the benefits of
the web while learning to read.
eBe: What do you see as the future of ebooks?
As the cost of readers decreases, and the industry standardizes its
format requirements (still probably a five year task), ebook acceptance
into schools and businesses will increase. As this shift occurs, there
will be larger take-up by the reading consumer.
This industry is still in the educational phase--it is teaching the
general public that it exists and provides benefits that traditional books
do not. As this task progresses, ebooks will become more widely accepted.
Once this happens, they will be treated the same as print books. The pocketbook
industry went through the same process 50 years ago. Ebooks will follow
a similar path.
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Electric eBook Publishing is a two-year-old epublishing company. They
have released over 20 books, have nearly a two year schedule of books to
be released, and receive over five hundred submissions a month, from which
they accept one to two.
They were recently recognized by the International eBook Award foundation
as a finalist in the Frankfurt eBook Awards, a first in the independent
epublishers. Terry Williams says, "While we are proud of this accomplishment,
we are constantly trying to improve our author's experience in publishing.
As a result, we are soon to be partnering with a new company doing short-run
printing and distribution to Canadian book sellers. Our hope in this process
is to allow more authors to take their books from Thought to Print to Market."
Electric eBook Publishing
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Title: Magick
Stunning! Very highly recommended
Frightening dreams haunt Diana Plaas' sleep as she helplessly watches
terrifying imagery unfold. Diana sees a man covered in blood lays on an altar,
and a woman thrown across him and brutally sexually used by a tattooed
High Priest. She tries to persuade herself that her dreams are not precognitive
in nature; just as she wants to believe that her previous dreams of a plane
crash did not foretell death for her husband and his father. Certainly
Diana does not suspect that her new neighbor moves in next door to protect
her and to complete his first assignment as a Wizard.
Win Sayre's first assignment as a Wizard. Sworn to uphold the balance,
Win must protect Diana from the vicious evil that comes for her. He does not
understand the powerful physical attraction he feels toward Diana nor the bonds
that will bind them. Certainly Diana looks nothing like the women that usually draw
him into their beds. Nevertheless, Diana possesses both magickal skill and physical
attraction that neither she nor Win yet suspect. But it will take all of Win's skills and Diana's
blossoming abilities to protect her from Shiva, the nightmarish Priest
who stalks her dreams.
Author Mary Taffs brings a powerful understanding of the metaphysics
of magick to her fascinatingly created MAGICK. Taffs utilizes traditional
magickal elements and paranormal skills, with strong ethical considerations,
as the foundation for her own unique mythology. While readers may traditionally
associate human sacrifice with devil worship, Taffs puts an interesting
spin on the narrative by making this a battle between two forms of matriarchal
energy. Vividly realized characterizations and events come alive with Taffs'
deft pen, as nightmarish imagery, strong character motivation, and a fast
paced plot result in a stunning read. In addition, readers will be pleased
to learn that the delightful Mr. Bill, the feline who owns Dee, is based
on Taffs' own pet. Very highly recommended.
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Cindy personally reviews 50-60 books a month.When she's not reviewing
or working on WordWeaving, she spends time with her beloved teen sons and
soon-to-be husband. Owned by 21 cats, two dogs, four tarantulas, one snake,
two bearded dragons, and two fire bellied toads, Cindy threatens to sell
tickets to the 'Zoo' to raise extra cash so she can buy more books.
Copyright © 2002 Cindy Penn
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Title: Command Performance
The coalition-Triad war is over and now the former enemies are allies
against the Illithians who want to rule the universe. Former coalition
captain Tasha "Sass" Sebastian commands the spaceship Vaxxar, second in
power to Triad Admiral Kel-Paten, who is part human and part cyborg. Sass
doesn't know it but Kel-Paten, who isn't supposed to have any feelings,
is in love with her.
Pirate Jace Serafino, a renegade telepath, is beamed aboard the Vaxxar
when his ship is destroyed in a space war. He is a wanted man in the alliance
because he was coerced into working as an undercover agent for them in
their war against the Illithians but disappeared before he could deliver
anything really useful to them. Jace has let himself become caught by his
enemies because he has knowledge of a plot by the Illithians to conquer
by stealth what they could not take by force. Now he has to convince his
most deadly enemy the Admiral that he is telling the truth and he needs
Sass's help to do it. Then they must try to stop the intrigue before they
are killed because both Sass and her admiral are marked for assassination.
COMMAND PERFORMANCE is a space opera in the tradition of Star Trek and
Star Wars, complete with romantic heroes, dashing rogues, evil aliens and
adorable space pets called furzels. The protagonists of this novel are
well drawn and easily engage reader interest and empathy even as the plot
races at hyperspeed. Linnea Sinclair raises the bar of excellence in science
fiction romance several notches.
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Harriet Klausner was born in the Bronx where she obtained a Masters
in Library Science. Her thesis topic was the Impact of Science Fiction
Reading by High School Seniors on Standardized Reading Scores. Harriet
met her spouse Stan when he read her palm in a Bronx outdoor cafe. She
takes immense pleasure informing other readers about newcomers or unknown
authors who have written superb novels.
Copyright © Harriet Klausner
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Alexandria Digital Literature
Dancing With The Devil
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A Will of Her Own
Magick
Observations from a Lookout
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Taggert of the Marines
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A Sense of Duty
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Lady Killer
Panache
Voice of the Turtledove
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Wandering Heart
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Thy Brother's Reaper
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Shadow in Starlight
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Crossroads of the Galaxy
Dawn Song
In Name Only
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A Will of Her Own
Castle Spellbound - Book 7 of the Castle Perilous Series
Dream Thieves
Lyonesse - Book I: Suldrun's Garden
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Death Benefits
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Shifters
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Head Over Heels
Improbable Solution
Winter Fire
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The Seventy-Ninth Prince
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Sometimes There's a Dove
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Fanged Justice
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ePublishing News
http://www.fictionwise.com/
http://www.escapetoromance.com/spotlight-mccormack.html
A Mouth Full of Shell by Connie Gotsch has won first place (Full
Length Fiction) in the New Mexico Press Women's 2002 Communication Contest.
Published by DLSIJ Press.
Bent Lorentzen, an ebook author from Copenhagen, Denmark, won
third place in the Copywrite, Ink.'s Summer 2002 GroundZero literary contest
with his short story, "Passage."
http://www.copywriteink.com/
Cynthia Ward, author of the literary ebook Sometimes There's
a Dove has an author interview posted at Writers Manual.
http://www.writersmanual.com/article1180.html
E2K: A journal for the new literary paradigm was a recent
Inscriptions Link of the Week. Inscriptions' comment:
"Searching for a commendable selection of fiction, poetry, articles
and interviews for writers and readers? Look no further than E2K, the brainchild
of Robert Marcom. In a vast sea of Internet sites for writers that are
mediocre, Marcom's site is fresh, interesting and bookmark-worthy!"
http://www.netauthor.org/e2k/apr2002/index.html
Franklin Electronic Publishers has signed a distribution
deal with AOL Time Warner. Franklin is best known for its eBookMan handheld
device. In addition to AOL Time Warner's book division, Franklin says it
has distribution deals with Houghton Mifflin, McGraw-Hill, Columbia University,
Collins U.K. and Merriam Webster, among others.
http://www.franklin.com/
From Dyslexic to Published Author: The Inspiring Story of author Cynthia
Ward.
http://www.easyfunschool.com/article2231.html
Author Gary Allen is currently making some of his earliest stories
available as downloads from the fiction section of his site:
http://www.lathroug.com/stories/here.htm
http://www.quantummuse.com/
Inscriptions weekly survey - "Do you believe e-published novels
are finally garnering as much respect and recognition as their print counterparts?" 10 % of respondants answered
Yes and 90% answered No.
http://www.inscriptionsmagazine.com/Survey.html
Kluwer Online Bookstore will contain over 400 recently published
titles, grouped together by subject area, available individually for download.
http://ebooks.kluweronline.com/Default.asp
Making eBooks Work, Part 2: Fictionwise by Jeff Kirvin.
"Despite the gloom and doom over ebooks in the popular media, some epublishers
are doing brisk business selling ebooks. What's the secret of their success?"
http://www.writingonyourpalm.net/column020506.htm
Mary Taffs won Sime~Gen's Spring Reviewer Choice Award for Favorite
Fantasy Author.
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/ReviewersChoiceAwardSpringResults.html
May/June Issue of Vision includes articles by genre writers
along with the transcript of an on-line conference held at Foward Motion
with Avon/Eos editor Diana Gill. Theme for this issue was 'Writing
and Editing.'
http://lazette.net/vision
Mugging the Muse by Holly Lisle - free e-book from her web site.
An author says, "It's loaded with 'goodies' for writers."
http://www.hollylisle.com/
On the 30th anniversary of the June 1972 Watergate break-in, John Dean
and Salon.com will unmask the real Deep Throat. Dean, whose testimony
during the Watergate hearings broke through the Nixon administration's
stonewalling and led to its downfall, will name Deep Throat ...in an exclusive
e-book that Salon will offer for sale on their Web site.
http://www.salon.com/letters/editor/2002/05/02/deep_throat/
R.R. Bowker, the leading provider of bibliographic information
in North America, has partnered with Booksurge, LLC, to make available
Booksurge's innovative on-demand book printing service to publishers of
all sizes.
http://booksurge.com/bowker/press_release.php3
Spotlight Author for May at Romance At It's Best was Allie McCormack:
http://www.romanceatitsbest.com/spotlights/alliemccormack.html
Stefani Sobers, author of Blessed Be the Jewel, a magic
realism novel, has an interview up at the Writers Manual web site.
http://www.writersmanual.com/article1179.html
Submitting Your Magnum Opus, an article by Allie McCormack.
http://www.romanceatitsbest.com/columns/allie/may02.html
Poet Terry Lowenstein had a reading of her poem "The Eagle
Weeps" at St. Agnes Branch of the New York Public Library and has also
been invited to read her work on the radio. Annette Marie Hyder also had
a reading of her poem.
http://this.is/poems/hope/
http://www.twilighttimes.com/
Ralan's Webstravaganza recently received the SFReader.com Firebrand
Fiction Reviews' Seal of Approval. It was also named one of the Writer's
Digest 101 Best Web Sites for Writers -- for third year in a row.
http://www.ralan.com/
The Eternal Night recently won the Preditors and Editors™
Truly Useful Site Award.
http://www.eternalnight.co.uk/
The Let's Talk interview for May/June 2002 is up at the EPPRO
website. Barbara Hodges talks with Michele Bardsley - "... mother, wife,
senior editor at Hard Shell Word Factory, and multi-published author."
Read the complete interview:
http://eppro.net/
The Second Gutenberg - the Full Interview with Michael Hart,
founder of Project Gutenberg.
http://12.108.175.91/ebookweb/discuss/msgReader$1362
The short list for the 2002 Independent e-Book Awards is now
online.
http://www.e-book-awards.com/
The Viacom Inc. publishing unit announced Hemingway's entire
list of books, including literary classics like A Farewell to Arms
and For Whom the Bell Tolls, will be available in the electronic
book format beginning in August.
http://www.simonsays.com/about_release.cfm?id=909688722
Top Ventures, Ltd., the majority partner in Top Publications,
Ltd., recently acquired the popular literary website, Bitbooks.com. Top
Publications is a small press located in Dallas, Texas. The site was acquired
from Phil Flora of Roanoke, Virginia who originally conceived the idea
of providing a place for authors to list their titles and link them to
a website where an excerpt could be read. Readers could then return to
Bitbooks.com and rate the excerpt.
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Wendy Maree Peterson is Author of the Month at Denise's Pieces.
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Wings ePress recently announced the winners of their first semi-annual
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http://www.wings-press.com
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SpecFicWorld.com is offering the poetry anthology Thorns
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http://www.specficworld.com/thorns.html
JIT for eBook CD's & Paperbacks will be offered by The Dragon's
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stands for "just in time" order fulfillment. This means their store handles
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Terri and Janet wrote, "If you have your eBook titles currently available
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The Eternal Night Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Fiction
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http://www.eternalnight.co.uk
Twilight Times Books offers some exciting fantasy ebook releases
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by Cynthia Ward.
http://www.twilighttimesbooks.com/
Writers Exchange E-Publishing has published an inspiritional,
Milk
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poems, and energizing stories, this free ebook was written by a group of
Christian authors.
http://www.writers-exchange.com/
Writer's Know-how -- technology tips for writers. Subscribe
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Christian E-Authors, in conjunction with Writers Exchange E-Publishing,
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FrancisIsidore Electronic Press is pleased to announce the release
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SFF.NET's E-STAND - the first site you should check to find the best
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The Music of the Straits by Raul E. Jimenez is now available
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The Writer's 12 Step Inspirational Program by Michelle Bardsley
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Twilight Times Books maintains a Freebies
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Which Food Which Wine by Larry Sanek, former owner of a wine
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