A couple of people have asked me how to read it if they don’t have a Kindle. No problem. You can download a “kindle reading app” from Amazon. Pick your platform, download the app, then buy the book. If you have some other preferred reader, once you download the file, you can find it on your computer, then convert it with Calibre. Again, if you like it, spread the word, write a review, let me know.
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Plugged at PJs
Whoo-hoo! I got plugged. Er, perhaps I should explain.
My book, The Stars Came Back, got a plug in the Book Plug Friday over at PJ Lifestyle, part of the Pajamas Media Megaplex. Be interesting to see what effect it has on sales. Looks like Peter Grant’s book, Take the Star Road, is in there too.
Fling that sucker, it’s ALIVE!
“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.” — Winston Churchill, speaking to the National Book Exhibition in London.
Flung, available at Amazon.
Now… the waiting.
Artist
Looks like I may have found an artist to create the cover art. The best image idea I have is the collision between Tajemnica and the Hussein’s interceptors. If anyone has any better ideas, let me know.
Sunday Traffic Spike
On a daily basis, this site doesn’t get a lot of traffic. But the last two Sundays it jumped considerably, from ~5 a day to over fifty. Did I get found by a web-crawler just tracing links, or are people starting to check in once a week to see how close things are to finishing, and just dropping by for a moment? Drop a note if it’s the latter.
Editing is moving, but never as fast as I’d like. Cover art is even slower, but I’m ever hopeful. Any volunteers out there want to help it along?
Update: Looks like it’s web-crawlers. Sudden spike to 30 page views in a very short period of time.
Latin
I added a new menu item, Latin. In the book I use several Latin phrases and words, and I thought having one place with proper translations and pronunciations would make sense. Thanks much to Paul for his help with some of them.
Catagories and summaries
I’m working on figuring out what the best categories for Amazon would be, and what are the “critical features” to include in the short written summary to attract buyers.
Because they only allow two categories, I was thinking “military fiction” and “libertarian fiction”. Would general SF be better, or Space Opera, or Action Adventure, or …? Thoughts, suggestions?
As for the intro, should I have more than the following:
Helton Strom is a reasonably ordinary guy dropped into extraordinary circumstances while doing nothing more than going to another planet to visit his sister, while he was on a break between teaching contracts. After running afoul of law-enforcement, space pirates, the mob, parts of officialdom, the captain of a naval cruiser, and only making a few friends along the way, he struggles to establish a new life and earn a living by getting a very old spaceship flying, only to discover it’s more than a bit unusual.