• authorlife,  E-books,  NaraMalone,  Personal,  ReadanE-BookWeek,  TheTiger'sTale

    My First Glamourous Day as an E-book Author #ebookweek

    I couldn’t get online because heavy rains knock out the sat link and leave me with no Internet. So I’m sitting in a local beauty  shop, with glittery purple goop in my hair, blogging. The purple goop, I’m told, will leave my hair soft and shiny and not at all purple. Let’s hope this is true. This would be a bad week to wind up with purple hair. But that was the price to pay for the only wi-fi in town, so I made the sacrifice. In all the years I was imagining the day I made my debut as an author, I never once pictured it like this. The…

  • E-books,  e-reading,  Reanane-bookweek,  THursdayThirteen

    Thirteen Things about Reading E

    John Dewey on educative experiences on Flickr – Photo Sharing! 1. I can take my library on vacation. 2. There’s no space for one more book in my house. 3. My house doesn’t come with a search feature to tell me which room, which pile, which box, which shelf holds the book I’ve spent three hours looking for. 4. Paper books don’t come with a search feature to help me find a particular line. 5. Paper  books don’t come with a search feature that searches all my notes and bookmarks. 6. My iPod Touch can hold several hundred books and fit them in my pocket. My pocket can’t. 7.  I…

  • E-books,  e-library,  ReadanE-BookWeek,  wine-library

    Celebrating E-library Winners

    Celebrating Labor Day by kthyprn on Flickr – Photo Sharing! Today’s Winner is Julie Jordan Scott.  You can check out her website Julie Unplugged and give her a high five. Okay, this being my first giveaway means I’m learning as I go and I suspect spam filters may be coming between me and the winners. So I’m going to announce them by the name they commented under.  If it’s you, check your spam filter. I’m sending another email this morning. If it’s someone you know, give them a poke and tell them to get in touch with me. Their comments don’t have links so I can’t track them back to…