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Along with a new look to the Amazon Kindle DTP Support Screen (which no longer says it’s in beta), Amazon Kindle also launches its 70% royalty option today. Here are details from the Community forums which were posted back in early May: In January, Amazon announced details of a new program that will enable authors [...]
Tammy Wynette and KLF were right when they sang about “Justified and Ancient.” The justification of text dates back to the process of typesetting when movable type was composed by hand by arranging metal sorts into lines of text and words.
The 2010 winners of the ABNA (Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award) have been announced.
Congrats go out to Patrica McArdle whose novel, Farishta, takes home the General Fiction award.
And Amy Ackley’s book, Sign Language, snagged the Young Adult Fiction win.
Impressed with Mr. Courtois’s last book, A Report from Winter, I gladly accepted the invitation to read his latest, Tales My Body Told Me. I found the title and the book’s cover to be intriguing enough and the description of the book was also just as appealing. The book centers around Paul, a middle aged gay man who finds himself in East Oak House in Maine with four other gay men who are “recovering homosexuals.” At first, it seems that location plays an important part in the story.
At first glance, the title of Iolanthe Woulff’s book, She’s My Dad, may seem confusing, but don’t be alarmed. Once you learn what the book is actually about, the title will make complete sense. There’s always been a great debate surrounding the old saying, “Write what you know.” The subject matter of this book is obviously something Mrs. Woulff knows a lot about because she has lived it. Mrs. Woulff is a transexual woman.
I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing several short story anthologies published through Lulu, and I have to say that Jeremy Boland’s collection is one of the best. Not only are the stories fresh and original, but the physical book itself is an excellent example of a self-published author getting it right. That’s why I’m going to talk about the book quality first.
After I had finished reviewing I Miss Your Purple Hair (Review 136), Robert Chandler offered to send me Minus the Imple.
Afterlives: The Collectionby Velerion Damarke Terrific. I was drawn from the first…what a great way of describing a character without being boring, giving immediate interest. A fantastic idea, which is written in such a way as to make it entirely ‘real’ – an almost ‘world weary’ voice of someone who ‘just has to get the [...]
C.V. reviews Chuggie and the Desecration of Stagwater by Brent Michael Kelley
Shannon reviews The Boston 395 by Jason Derr
Susan reviews Appraisal for Murder by Elaine Orr
C.V. reviews Hellwatch by Larime Taylor (February's 1st review)
Jaime reviews The Parrot's Perch by Karen Keilt
Susan reviews Dark Mind by Jennifer Chase
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