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Hummm.....

Well, I tried to tell them about the new edition and upload a new cover and back blurb. I even tried to figure out where to do a blog. Nothing has shown up other than the old book covers I uploaded. And I get a message telling me where to check into making a Kindle edition.

I don't have time to do that right now.

So -- anyone writing a review, you might include my web site or something, or even see if you can get Book View Cafe's name mentioned. Since apparently I won't be selling books through them, more's the pity.
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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....

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A very good friend has just stepped from the halls of nonfiction and short pieces to her first novel, from Chanter Press in the Texas hill country. It's a story about fathers, daughters and sons, and how two strangers discover that although their fathers had secrets that they told to no one, sometimes a trail of clues will lead to the truth.

I recommend it. Anyone who likes WWII stories will probably love this book. Cheryl has a gift for just the right phrase, and tells a story that brings truth and new beginnings from mistakes and heartbreak. We have a WWII German solder, a late 20th century Air Force Colonel, and a young woman who is both observant and loves a father she never really understood. This will make a great gift.

Here's from the launch party at Facebook:

AVAILABLE BEGINNING JULY 4, 2009 FOR $12.00 (+s&h) FROM:

Chanter Press
Lulu.com

COVER COPY:

"Lives are often stories not yet written down. Not always ended, either, which can fuse the living and telling into a path not always clear. Some tales take a long time to tell, especially when they start in 1944 and flow into 1996, and the characters weave in and out across those years without knowing one another.

Retired Colonel Matthew Rankin’s sudden death at a party in 1996 leaves a gap in many lives. Deepest, perhaps, in that of his daughter, Manda, whose grief is overwhelming as she realizes how little she knows of who her father was. His strict and formal way kept Matthew at odds with his daughter.

The coincidental arrival of Pieter Becker, a man following a just-found trace of his own father’s World War II disappearance, sets the two of them in motion to solve the puzzle of their fathers’ connection. At first, the only clue they have is a photo taken of the two men together in Grand Central Station in 1975 by Willi Prang, a garrulous former WWII POW who says he knew Pieter’s father.

In 1975, Matthew Rankin was an on-the-rise Colonel in the United States Air Force, successful and devoted to doing the Pentagon’s bidding.

The other man in the photograph is Pieter’s father, Franz Becker, according to Willi Prang, whom Pieter meets at a reunion of ex-German POW’s.

But Pieter’s father died in World War II.

Or did he?"

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