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Template in POD paperback
Recently, Paizo Press reverted to me the paperback rights to Template: A Novel of the Archonate, a stand-alone space opera that is the book I most often recommend to new readers who want an introduction to my work. It also represents the only time I've consciously tried to write a "Jack Vance novel," although the themes and concerns embodied in the story are my own.
With the paperback rights returned to me, I've run the work through CreateSpace's print-on-demand system, so it's now available via my webpage bookstore for $12.99. It should start showing up on the various Amazons in the next few days. Down the road, it will even be orderable from brick-and-mortar bookstores all over the place.
With the paperback rights returned to me, I've run the work through CreateSpace's print-on-demand system, so it's now available via my webpage bookstore for $12.99. It should start showing up on the various Amazons in the next few days. Down the road, it will even be orderable from brick-and-mortar bookstores all over the place.
New versions of my ebooks
Hardware malfunctions have kept me from updating here since late September, but now I'm back. I have a number of things to post about but 'll do them one at a time over the next few days so as not to be constantly tugging on your sleeve.
My gifted book designer and webmaster, Bradley W. Schenck, has sent me new and improved versions of my self-published ebooks, Fools Errant, Fool Me Twice, Template, The Meaning of Luff, The Complete Guth Bandar, 9 Tales of Henghis Hapthorn, and Paroxysm.
If you've bought them on Amazon, the updated content will automatically come through. If you haven't bought them, now would be a good time.
My gifted book designer and webmaster, Bradley W. Schenck, has sent me new and improved versions of my self-published ebooks, Fools Errant, Fool Me Twice, Template, The Meaning of Luff, The Complete Guth Bandar, 9 Tales of Henghis Hapthorn, and Paroxysm.
If you've bought them on Amazon, the updated content will automatically come through. If you haven't bought them, now would be a good time.
Free copy of Template
I'm trying something new in the realm of building a readership: InstaFreebie, a web service that lets me give away ebook copies of my work in exchange for the recipients signing up for a newsletter I'll be starting to produce next month. I'm told that a newsletter is a better way to reach readers than blogs, Facebook, and Twitter.
So I'm giving away up to a thousand copies of Template, my standalone, space-opera Archonate novel that's been previously published by PS Publishing and Paizo. It's an Oliver Twist tale and probably the most deliberately Vancean of my novels.
It's available in pdf, mobi, and epub formats. Here's the link to claim a free copy:
So I'm giving away up to a thousand copies of Template, my standalone, space-opera Archonate novel that's been previously published by PS Publishing and Paizo. It's an Oliver Twist tale and probably the most deliberately Vancean of my novels.
It's available in pdf, mobi, and epub formats. Here's the link to claim a free copy:
great deal on ebooks
Bundoran Press is offering a StoryBundle bargain: four classic SF ebooks for US$5.
And if you up your payment to $15, you get eight more books by established stars and up-and-comers.
The basic four includes my standalone Archonate novel, Template, my only serious attempt to write a Jack Vance space opera.
Buy the whole package and you get novels by greats like Tanya Huff, Robert J. Sawyer, Edward Willett (some of whose books I’ve edited), and a never-before-available short story collection by James Alan Gardner.
Great books at great prices. Here’s where to go.
This is a time-limited offer, with three weeks to go. Get ’em while they’re going, because by the end of the month, they’ll be gone.
And if you up your payment to $15, you get eight more books by established stars and up-and-comers.
The basic four includes my standalone Archonate novel, Template, my only serious attempt to write a Jack Vance space opera.
Buy the whole package and you get novels by greats like Tanya Huff, Robert J. Sawyer, Edward Willett (some of whose books I’ve edited), and a never-before-available short story collection by James Alan Gardner.
Great books at great prices. Here’s where to go.
This is a time-limited offer, with three weeks to go. Get ’em while they’re going, because by the end of the month, they’ll be gone.
Interview re TEMPLATE
To help promote the Bundoran Press StoryBundle -- a dozen Canadian SF ebooks for $US15 -- I've done an interview about how I came to write my most deliberately Vancean space opera. And why so many of my protagonists -- like TEMPLATE's Conn Labro -- are social and psychological outliers.
There's also some advice for aspiring authors.
The StoryBundle deal has 17 days left to run. Some good stuff there by established Canadian authors and the up-and-comers who may well be tomorrow's new stars.
There's also some advice for aspiring authors.
The StoryBundle deal has 17 days left to run. Some good stuff there by established Canadian authors and the up-and-comers who may well be tomorrow's new stars.
Last chance for StoryBundle
The Bundoran StoryBundle bargain ends today. Twelve SF ebooks (11 novels, one short story collection) by Canadian specfic authors, for US$15. Includes my Archonate space opera, Template, the book I most often recommend to people who want to read me for the first time.
The books are all DRM free, so you can lend them to friends. And the deal offers support for two charities, one that encourage girls and women to write and another that promotes literacy in disadvantaged communities.
Great books, great price, good causes. But it's going, going, and soon to be gone.
The books are all DRM free, so you can lend them to friends. And the deal offers support for two charities, one that encourage girls and women to write and another that promotes literacy in disadvantaged communities.
Great books, great price, good causes. But it's going, going, and soon to be gone.
