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…
Party Time for more #ebookweek winners and The Tiger’s Tale release day
Party Time DUC #178 on Flickr – Photo Sharing! Anthony North is the newest winner in the e-library give away. Congrats, Anthony. Retta L. has claimed her library. I have two more two more flash drive libraries to give away, so if you’re just dying to get your hands on my new novel, The Tiger’s Tale, you’ve still got a shot. If you don’t want to wait that long, today is release day. Just click that book cover (I believe the buy link at the bookpage will appear around noon) and grab yourself a copy. You can read an excerpt while you’re waiting.
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How can we combat the greed and misperception that perpetuate e-reading illiteracy?
When I ask someone if they read e-books, I usually get some version of that meme about “the smell and feel” of a “real” book. But when I show someone an e-reader they say, Wow! When I pull my e-reader out in a public place to read, it always attracts attention and I happily answer questions and show people how easy it is to use. Very few people know what an e-reader looks like or how to acquire an e-book and read it. And that’s a shame, because there are so many free digital repositories of knowledge and great literature. After helping find e-reading solutions for a woman who’d given…