Libby Schmais's Blog

so I finally got around to making The Perfect Elizabeth into an ebook, having wrangled the rights back from the Publisher after all these years.

My sister did a great cover and i'm pricing it to sell at $3.99.....

It is available as a Kindle:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Perfect-Eli...

and a Nook Book

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/perfe...

If anyone's interested in a great hardcover book converter service, I recommend ebook Architects - and putting the book up on the sites is a breeze...although strangely nerve-wracking

so I finally got around to making The Perfect Elizabeth into an ebook, having wrangled the rights back from the Publisher after all these years.

My sister did a great cover and i'm pricing it to sell at $3.99.....

It is available as a Kindle: 

http://www.amazon.com/The-Perfect-Elizabeth-Sisters-ebook/dp/B00BVBHJZG/

and a Nook Book

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/perfect-elizabeth-libby-schmais/1102536495

If anyone's interested in a great hardcover book converter service, I recommend ebook Architects - and putting the book up on the sites is a breeze...

Thanks to Claire for her review of Tudor Rules on her informative and entertaining website, The Anne Boleyn Files: Review of Tudor Rules by Claire Ridgeway - in which she describes Tudor Rules as " ideal reading material for any "teenage girl interested in Anne Boleyn and the Tudor period."

Claire has a new book out as well--  on Anne Boleyn of course -- entitled,  "The Anne Boleyn Collection: The Real Truth About the Tudors" - Check it out: The Anne Boleyn Collection



Tudor Rules: How Anne Boleyn helped me survive High School

I just got an email about the latest batch of B&N Discover Great New Writers, and I started thinking back to how lucky i was to be chosen for this, back in 2000 for my novel ,"The Perfect Elizabeth"    But when I look at the list, it's hard not to compare myself to some of the other writers or feel envious of some of them, whose careers have gone a bit differently than mine. I'll show you what I mean:


Spring 2000  B&N Discover Great New WritersWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert Bee Season by Myla Goldberg The Sooterkin by Tom Gilling Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss The Sunday Tertulia by Lori Marie Carlson From Our House by Lee Martin Under the Skin by Michel Faber Iron Shoes by Molly Giles Money, Love by Brad Barkley The Perfect Elizabeth by Libby Schmais Quickening by Laura Catherine Brown Driving Mr. Albert by Michael Paterniti After Life by Rhian Ellis Damned If You Do by Gordon Houghton The Dark House by John Sedgwick Jim the Boy by Tony Earley Beyond the Sky and the Earth by Jamie Zeppa Trumpet by Jackie Kay In the Drink by Kate Christensen Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison The Blossom Festival by Lawrence Coates

I am proof.  Not knowing that anyone actually reads my cranky posts, I recently vented my thoughts about Starbuck's price increase at @writergirl22

Here's what I wrote:
 
writergirl22 Libby Schmais Really @ starbucks -- $2.01 for tall coffee! you couldn't just make it $2? and then, lo and behold,  a writer (a very nice man called Jeff Sommer) from The New York Times asked me to call him and wanted my thoughts for an article that actually appeared in the most recent Sunday New York Times!   If you don't believe me, here's the link:  Me in NYT article about Starbucks 
 Aftermath: (my mother was very impressed that i was  called a novelist and two guys i went to high school contacted me) So Twitterers out there, remember, someone may be reading your cranky twitters and similar things may happen.  My next twitter will be about Sephora, after an unpleasant experience trying to return some concealer at the Time Warner Center - and me being a VIB and all (very important beauty customer).  Watch out @Sephora!

I  finally got the cover I wanted (instead of the lame cover the publisher had originally suggested & no one has asked me to change the title or plot or make it more G-rated or made me feel bad about my writing
I get to keep more profits (assuming there will be some, fingers crossed).
I get to charge a reasonable price for book -- a price I would feel good about paying (how does $3.99 sound?)
Owning the rights to my own work (still waiting to get rights back from St. Martins)  Things I miss about Legacy Publishing
Having a deadline
Getting a sizable check up front
Having the illusion there will be publicity
Feeling validated - as in I was published by so and so…..(Random House, St. Martins and Putnam in my case).
Feeling like someone is waiting for my book (see deadline). 
Having a publication date  (Still haven't picked mine - but it will be soon - I promise!)

Tudor Rules!

Tudor Rules
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Le Paperback of The Pillow Book of Lotus Lowenstein is finally available! only $8.99

get them while they're chaud!

thanks!!
Libby

Merci Alan for picking moi for your list and calling me "Tres likeable" Vous avez beaucoup de taste, je pense.

http://www.alan-ya.org/2010/04/alans-...

ALAN's Picks: March 2010

ALAN's Picks is a monthly book review column that is compiled and edited by Dr. Pam Cole of Kennesaw State University. Be sure to check the site often to see a preview of the latest titles in YA Lit.

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Merci mes amis!!!
Lotus