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alfreda89 ([personal profile] alfreda89) wrote2010-09-29 11:33 pm

Everything Works in Theory! FIRES OF NUALA

So -- Today is the day. FIRES OF NUALA, ISBN 978 0 9828440 7 6, cover art by noted astronomical artist Don Dixon, 110,000 words plus appendices, is available in four formats over at Book View Cafe -- PDF, MOBI, PRC and EPUB. The first three of those formats will work on a Kindle, so don't wait for a so-called Kindle version, because that is months away. Getting the other two books in shape to become E-books is more important. Sony eReader and B&N Nook can read PDFs.

The book can be purchased here.

There should be a link on the front page of Book View Cafe tomorrow, Thursday, leading to the first scene of the book. I've broken the 110,000 word novel into 54 blocks that vary from 2500 to 3500 words -- the size of a short story. You can start the novel and read on-line every Thursday from now until the cows come home. Or -- you can buy a copy a soon as you'd like! This edition contains all the extras that pertain to this part of history -- maps (in my own, spidery handwriting) time, calendar, language, genealogy -- and the thieves' cant that was left out of the original novel.

I hope you enjoy it. If you like it, tell the world! I plan to put up the other two books, and hope to get back to writing in here, too. I need to either sell a bunch of books or get a part time job this fall, building up my strength to work full time again. The fate of this e-book, and a few submissions out there, will determine whether fiction is full time, or the hobby after everything else is taken care of.

I'll leave a LJ post open for comments, discussion, etc. each week, if people would like to talk book. Remember to hide spoilers! This is a new book to many. http://alfreda89.livejournal.com/

Thank you for your support, and your belief. Special thanks go to writers Vonda N. McIntyre, Pati Nagle, and Amy Sterling Casil of Book View Cafe -- this would not have been possible without them. When you visit BVC, be sure and look up their books, too -- Vonda's Starfarers Quartet is also now available in E-Book formats!

Here we go again....

[identity profile] sheilagh.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
oh! can you talk Dixon into making his Nuala cover the picture of the day tomorrow, and linking to your book page??

I don't know --

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
If not tomorrow, maybe next Thursday when I post the interview with him?

[identity profile] originalkitsune.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
oooh congrats on getting it out!

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[identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
It's my current reading book--will post soon as I finish!

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh great!
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay, I never had an opportunity to read this yet.

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Your chance has arrived!
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I bought it after I commented ^^.
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I have a huge TBR pile, but since I joined GoodReads.com this year, I try to write at least something about every book I finish, so I'll write my impressions there when I read it.

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
My TBR pile could damage me, it's gotten so high.... ;^)
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2010-10-01 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
If you have the space it helps to start separating the genres, then it doesn't look so bad ^^. I have my sf to be read in one of the three huge drawers built into my custom-made bedframe. I have the romance tbr in one shelf of my bookcases in my library/living-room, I have the tbr manga in one of these (http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0028LFLKS/ref=oss_product) to the right side of my bedroom wardrobe and some more books that I'm in the process of reading in another one of those to the left side.

Oh and then there are the ebooks on my reader. If no further books should be published from now on - which God may forbid - I could probably last a year (I do have a full-time job) from my TBR, and then I'd finally have the time to re-read!

But after three years I guess I'd be slowly going insane.

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-10-23 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I used to have that. I have fiction and non-fiction piles, or did, and separated the SF/F and Mysteries. Then I could not read for two years. I will go back to this eventually, when I have room to spread a bit. Now? Not so much room to spread!
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2010-10-24 09:36 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I only started separating the piles when I moved into my current flat four years ago, because I finally have the space to do so.