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Re: Invitation to a virtual book signing

Posted by Steve Smith on Apr 14, 2011; 2:48am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Invitation-to-a-virtual-book-signing-tp6271241p6271366.html

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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