Invitation to a virtual book signing

[Douglas Roberts-2]

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Dear FRIAM friends, colleagues, and acquaintances (you all can envision the Venn diagram that places you in your particular state-space):

Please join me in celebrating the fact that today I published my first book.

Second Cousins is a science fiction novel, set in the current day.  From the "Dust Jacket":

Preface

24,000 years ago during the last ice age, what is now White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico was then a 1,600 square mile lake which geologists have named Lake Otero. Gradually the weather became drier and warmer as the ice age retreated, and the gypsum that had been dissolved in the lake deposited out as the lake dried up, leaving the modern-day pure white dunes of gypsum sand.

At the southern end of this range of dunes on what is now part of the White Sands Missile Range, the sands have drifted, exposing something that should not have been there.

___

Second Cousins is available as a Kindel e-book for the ridiculously affordable price of $0.99.  Here's the link to it:

http://www.amazon.com/Second-Cousins-ebook/dp/B004WF4DXE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1302741713&sr=1-1

Don't have a Kindle?  No problem.  If you really want to splurge the 99 cents, Amazon has free Kindle apps for practically any device.  Check it out:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_ipad_mkt_lnd?docId=1000493771

The first 100 people who request one will also receive a free signed copy of the book cover.  The cover art was done by the marvelous Jenica Cruz, graphic artist extrordinaire!

Cheers!

--Doug

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[Tom Johnson]

Congrats, Doug.  I would like to talk with you soon about your experience with Amazon's program.

-tom

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Douglas Roberts <[hidden email]> wrote:

***  Apologies to those of you who see this more than once this due to social network overlap ***

Dear FRIAM friends, colleagues, and acquaintances (you all can envision the Venn diagram that places you in your particular state-space):

Please join me in celebrating the fact that today I published my first book.

Second Cousins is a science fiction novel, set in the current day.  From the "Dust Jacket":

Preface

24,000 years ago during the last ice age, what is now White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico was then a 1,600 square mile lake which geologists have named Lake Otero. Gradually the weather became drier and warmer as the ice age retreated, and the gypsum that had been dissolved in the lake deposited out as the lake dried up, leaving the modern-day pure white dunes of gypsum sand.

At the southern end of this range of dunes on what is now part of the White Sands Missile Range, the sands have drifted, exposing something that should not have been there.

___

Second Cousins is available as a Kindel e-book for the ridiculously affordable price of $0.99.  Here's the link to it:

http://www.amazon.com/Second-Cousins-ebook/dp/B004WF4DXE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1302741713&sr=1-1

Don't have a Kindle?  No problem.  If you really want to splurge the 99 cents, Amazon has free Kindle apps for practically any device.  Check it out:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_ipad_mkt_lnd?docId=1000493771

The first 100 people who request one will also receive a free signed copy of the book cover.  The cover art was done by the marvelous Jenica Cruz, graphic artist extrordinaire!

Cheers!

--Doug

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[Steve Smith]

Dude -

I'm Downloading now...   Kindle-for-Mac reader first then my splurgy $.99 book...

I'm sure I'm not the only one curious about the process (to date, and in the future as it unfolds).

What did it take to get published this way?
Is there a paper-edition in the works (if you get enough digital sales first)?
How did you discover this mechanism, was it obvious/well-publicized?
What is their deal?  Is it like Apps where you get a significant percentage?
If I think it is crap, can I ask  for my $.49 (if that is your cut) back?
Can I take it out in good Bourbon?  Or Patio Bricks?

- Dud

***  Apologies to those of you who see this more than once this due to social network overlap ***

Dear FRIAM friends, colleagues, and acquaintances (you all can envision the Venn diagram that places you in your particular state-space):

Please join me in celebrating the fact that today I published my first book.

Second Cousins is a science fiction novel, set in the current day.  From the "Dust Jacket":

Preface

24,000 years ago during the last ice age, what is now White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico was then a 1,600 square mile lake which geologists have named Lake Otero. Gradually the weather became drier and warmer as the ice age retreated, and the gypsum that had been dissolved in the lake deposited out as the lake dried up, leaving the modern-day pure white dunes of gypsum sand.

At the southern end of this range of dunes on what is now part of the White Sands Missile Range, the sands have drifted, exposing something that should not have been there.

___

Second Cousins is available as a Kindel e-book for the ridiculously affordable price of $0.99.  Here's the link to it:

http://www.amazon.com/Second-Cousins-ebook/dp/B004WF4DXE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1302741713&sr=1-1

Don't have a Kindle?  No problem.  If you really want to splurge the 99 cents, Amazon has free Kindle apps for practically any device.  Check it out:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_ipad_mkt_lnd?docId=1000493771

The first 100 people who request one will also receive a free signed copy of the book cover.  The cover art was done by the marvelous Jenica Cruz, graphic artist extrordinaire!

Cheers!

--Doug

--
Doug Roberts
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505-455-7333 - Office
505-670-8195 - Cell

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[Douglas Roberts-2]

Amigo,

In rough order, answered as asked:

An account on kdb.amazon.com.  And a book.

Paper?  What's that?

I read an article on SlashDot about a NYT best selling author who spurned a $500,000 book deal from a large publishing house to self-publish instead (at $0.99 per).  I read one of his books & decided I could do at least as well.

Amazon offers two basic royalty deals: 70% to the author, as long as you price the book between $2.99 and $9.99, or 35% royalty and you price as you wish.

Finally, if you think it is crap, you are obligated to feed me Bourbon (or a decent single malt Scotch, or Chivas -- a blend that I find myself partial to) whilst explaining why.

There, I think that about covers it...

Dude^2

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:

Dude -

I'm Downloading now...   Kindle-for-Mac reader first then my splurgy $.99 book...

I'm sure I'm not the only one curious about the process (to date, and in the future as it unfolds).

What did it take to get published this way?
Is there a paper-edition in the works (if you get enough digital sales first)?
How did you discover this mechanism, was it obvious/well-publicized?
What is their deal?  Is it like Apps where you get a significant percentage?
If I think it is crap, can I ask  for my $.49 (if that is your cut) back?
Can I take it out in good Bourbon?  Or Patio Bricks?

- Dud

***  Apologies to those of you who see this more than once this due to social network overlap ***

Dear FRIAM friends, colleagues, and acquaintances (you all can envision the Venn diagram that places you in your particular state-space):

Please join me in celebrating the fact that today I published my first book.

Second Cousins is a science fiction novel, set in the current day.  From the "Dust Jacket":

Preface

24,000 years ago during the last ice age, what is now White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico was then a 1,600 square mile lake which geologists have named Lake Otero. Gradually the weather became drier and warmer as the ice age retreated, and the gypsum that had been dissolved in the lake deposited out as the lake dried up, leaving the modern-day pure white dunes of gypsum sand.

At the southern end of this range of dunes on what is now part of the White Sands Missile Range, the sands have drifted, exposing something that should not have been there.

___

Second Cousins is available as a Kindel e-book for the ridiculously affordable price of $0.99.  Here's the link to it:

http://www.amazon.com/Second-Cousins-ebook/dp/B004WF4DXE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1302741713&sr=1-1

Don't have a Kindle?  No problem.  If you really want to splurge the 99 cents, Amazon has free Kindle apps for practically any device.  Check it out:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_ipad_mkt_lnd?docId=1000493771

The first 100 people who request one will also receive a free signed copy of the book cover.  The cover art was done by the marvelous Jenica Cruz, graphic artist extrordinaire!

Cheers!

--Doug

--
Doug Roberts
[hidden email]
[hidden email]
505-455-7333 - Office
505-670-8195 - Cell

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[Victoria Hughes]

Hello Doug-

I add my congratulations, on the finishing of the book as well as the technology of your publishing!

I already have my Kindle-for-Mac app, so I could get the latest Seth Godin...Yours is next.

fyi:

In the same week as Barry Eisler turned down that half-million advance, Amanda Hocking, a 26-yr old phenomemon who has already made 2 million dollars writing specifically for kindles et al, signed a $2million deal with a major publisher so she could reach more readers through bookstores.

 In the publishing business newsletter in which this was all cited, Nathan Bransford added

"Industry sage Mike Shatzkin calls it "a key benchmark on the road to wherever it is we're going." 

Victoria

>  Get SFX to develop an app for authors to sign ebooks/kindles/etc

On Apr 13, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:

Amigo,

In rough order, answered as asked:

An account on kdb.amazon.com.  And a book.

Paper?  What's that?

I read an article on SlashDot about a NYT best selling author who spurned a $500,000 book deal from a large publishing house to self-publish instead (at $0.99 per).  I read one of his books & decided I could do at least as well.

Amazon offers two basic royalty deals: 70% to the author, as long as you price the book between $2.99 and $9.99, or 35% royalty and you price as you wish.

Finally, if you think it is crap, you are obligated to feed me Bourbon (or a decent single malt Scotch, or Chivas -- a blend that I find myself partial to) whilst explaining why.

There, I think that about covers it...

Dude^2

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:

Dude -

I'm Downloading now...   Kindle-for-Mac reader first then my splurgy $.99 book...

I'm sure I'm not the only one curious about the process (to date, and in the future as it unfolds).

What did it take to get published this way?
Is there a paper-edition in the works (if you get enough digital sales first)?
How did you discover this mechanism, was it obvious/well-publicized?
What is their deal?  Is it like Apps where you get a significant percentage?
If I think it is crap, can I ask  for my $.49 (if that is your cut) back?
Can I take it out in good Bourbon?  Or Patio Bricks?

- Dud

***  Apologies to those of you who see this more than once this due to social network overlap ***

Dear FRIAM friends, colleagues, and acquaintances (you all can envision the Venn diagram that places you in your particular state-space):

Please join me in celebrating the fact that today I published my first book.

Second Cousins is a science fiction novel, set in the current day.  From the "Dust Jacket":

Preface

24,000 years ago during the last ice age, what is now White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico was then a 1,600 square mile lake which geologists have named Lake Otero. Gradually the weather became drier and warmer as the ice age retreated, and the gypsum that had been dissolved in the lake deposited out as the lake dried up, leaving the modern-day pure white dunes of gypsum sand.

At the southern end of this range of dunes on what is now part of the White Sands Missile Range, the sands have drifted, exposing something that should not have been there.

___

Second Cousins is available as a Kindel e-book for the ridiculously affordable price of $0.99.  Here's the link to it:

http://www.amazon.com/Second-Cousins-ebook/dp/B004WF4DXE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1302741713&sr=1-1

Don't have a Kindle?  No problem.  If you really want to splurge the 99 cents, Amazon has free Kindle apps for practically any device.  Check it out:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_ipad_mkt_lnd?docId=1000493771

The first 100 people who request one will also receive a free signed copy of the book cover.  The cover art was done by the marvelous Jenica Cruz, graphic artist extrordinaire!

Cheers!

--Doug

--
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[hidden email]
505-455-7333 - Office
505-670-8195 - Cell

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[Douglas Roberts-2]

Pretty cool, Tory.  As I mentioned to someone else tonight, if I were the head of a large publishing house right now I'd be scrambling for a new business model in response to the  impact of self publishing venues.

--Doug

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Victoria Hughes <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello Doug-

I add my congratulations, on the finishing of the book as well as the technology of your publishing!

I already have my Kindle-for-Mac app, so I could get the latest Seth Godin...Yours is next.

fyi:

In the same week as Barry Eisler turned down that half-million advance, Amanda Hocking, a 26-yr old phenomemon who has already made 2 million dollars writing specifically for kindles et al, signed a $2million deal with a major publisher so she could reach more readers through bookstores.

 In the publishing business newsletter in which this was all cited, Nathan Bransford added

"Industry sage Mike Shatzkin calls it "a key benchmark on the road to wherever it is we're going." 

Victoria

>  Get SFX to develop an app for authors to sign ebooks/kindles/etc

On Apr 13, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:

Amigo,

In rough order, answered as asked:

An account on kdb.amazon.com.  And a book.

Paper?  What's that?

I read an article on SlashDot about a NYT best selling author who spurned a $500,000 book deal from a large publishing house to self-publish instead (at $0.99 per).  I read one of his books & decided I could do at least as well.

Amazon offers two basic royalty deals: 70% to the author, as long as you price the book between $2.99 and $9.99, or 35% royalty and you price as you wish.

Finally, if you think it is crap, you are obligated to feed me Bourbon (or a decent single malt Scotch, or Chivas -- a blend that I find myself partial to) whilst explaining why.

There, I think that about covers it...

Dude^2

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:

Dude -

I'm Downloading now...   Kindle-for-Mac reader first then my splurgy $.99 book...

I'm sure I'm not the only one curious about the process (to date, and in the future as it unfolds).

What did it take to get published this way?
Is there a paper-edition in the works (if you get enough digital sales first)?
How did you discover this mechanism, was it obvious/well-publicized?
What is their deal?  Is it like Apps where you get a significant percentage?
If I think it is crap, can I ask  for my $.49 (if that is your cut) back?
Can I take it out in good Bourbon?  Or Patio Bricks?

- Dud

***  Apologies to those of you who see this more than once this due to social network overlap ***

Dear FRIAM friends, colleagues, and acquaintances (you all can envision the Venn diagram that places you in your particular state-space):

Please join me in celebrating the fact that today I published my first book.

Second Cousins is a science fiction novel, set in the current day.  From the "Dust Jacket":

Preface

24,000 years ago during the last ice age, what is now White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico was then a 1,600 square mile lake which geologists have named Lake Otero. Gradually the weather became drier and warmer as the ice age retreated, and the gypsum that had been dissolved in the lake deposited out as the lake dried up, leaving the modern-day pure white dunes of gypsum sand.

At the southern end of this range of dunes on what is now part of the White Sands Missile Range, the sands have drifted, exposing something that should not have been there.

___

Second Cousins is available as a Kindel e-book for the ridiculously affordable price of $0.99.  Here's the link to it:

http://www.amazon.com/Second-Cousins-ebook/dp/B004WF4DXE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1302741713&sr=1-1

Don't have a Kindle?  No problem.  If you really want to splurge the 99 cents, Amazon has free Kindle apps for practically any device.  Check it out:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_ipad_mkt_lnd?docId=1000493771

The first 100 people who request one will also receive a free signed copy of the book cover.  The cover art was done by the marvelous Jenica Cruz, graphic artist extrordinaire!

Cheers!

--Doug

--
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505-455-7333 - Office
505-670-8195 - Cell

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Doug Roberts
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505-670-8195 - Cell

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505-670-8195 - Cell

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