Desert Sky

by Mike Macartney

An enhanced ebook for the iPad. Includes interactive media. A photography portfolio of the American West.

37 pages, ebook

First published January 9, 2013

About the author

Things have changed. In 2005 I wrote a book about alternative energy and climate change and went looking for an agent and publisher - and an editor. What an adventure. It is hard to say which were the biggest pains of the three. Bottom line was "No platform, no publishing, thanks for dropping by. We only want fiction books. Etc." Life got busy on a new job commuting from Silicon Valley to Detroit and the book got put away.

Seven years later and it is all different now. The Internet changes everything. With 200,000 books per year now published digitally and print on demand the problems now are discoverability and quality control, not getting an agent and a New York publisher.

My personal writing is mostly short stories and I will have a new book of them out in October. There is about 40% of a novel and 40% of a memoir written, but that is not my thing. May finish them along the way at some point.

The alternative energy book? I thought about changing it to a book about scale, but non-fiction is hard work and it takes grit to go back and update all the engineering and economics in it over again for 2012. Maybe one of these days.

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