Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Coming soon (I hope):

I hope to do some interviews, via e-mail, with some of the authors whose books I have listed on this site. Stay tuned...

A new publishing adventure awaits...

I recently bought a Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader. I wasn't going to, as I really like books. But this is a very cool device. You can cram a truckload of books, electronically speaking, into the thing's brain and still have room left over. I'm enjoying it immensely. Which brings me to my newest publishing adventure: ePublishing...

While we were at the B&N store where I bought the Nook, my lovely wife asked me if any of my books are available as e-books. Unfortunately, I had to tell her that they are not. But all that is going to change in the relatively near future. I'm currently in the process of formatting Complications: The Deputies Book 1 as an ebook. From there, I'm planning to set it up with Borders.com, then move on to the Amazon Kindle. Then, if I can get B&N to talk to me, I'll attempt to get it set up with them as well. Once that's done, I'll start on formatting for Book 2. I'm using the same Adobe Creative Suite software that I use to format my print book blocks, so there really wasn't any new software to learn, I just had to refresh my memory as to how CS4 does things...

The whole e-book thing is quite intriguing. One buys the book online, wirelessly downloads it to the reading device, of which there are numerous permutations, then read away. We have a wireless network set up in our living room so Internet and stuff are a relative snap. We even have a wireless printer. Since I bought the Nook I've already read Tom Clancy's new book, I'm currently in the middle of Stephen Hunter's I, Sniper, and I've read the book that started the whole Reacher phenomenon (for those of you who have never heard of Reacher, he's a former Military Police major who roams the country trying to be left alone and very rarely succeeding). Lee Child is the author of the Reacher books, and I haven't read one yet that I don't like...

e-Readers seem to be all the rage nowadays. I know when we were in the B&N in Boise Christmas shopping, they were sold out of everything except the super-expensive Nook Color...