Month: February 2010
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Never mind Amazon vs. Macmillan, let's talk authors!
So the whole Amazon vs. Macmillan fracas has accomplished three things for me, as of last night: One, I have bought a nook. The cost of said nook as well as a loverly cover to put it in is roughly about the same as the amount of royalties I have now received for Faerie Blood,…
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Word catchup
Just to quickly cover the rest of the words I wrote on Mirror’s Gate while at Conflikt, this quicky post! A brief snippet from Aleksi’s POV is now in place, although I think I’m going to have to work on that in the second draft. That snippet may actually need to be an entire chapter.…
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I was going to do this anyway
But the Amazon vs. Macmillan brouhaha over the weekend has pretty much bumped up the priority on this: I just dropped my first round of shiny royalties on a Nook. The actual device and a pretty cover to put it in pretty much comes to roughly the amount of royalties I got, and that’s quite…
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Amazon vs. Macmillan: FIGHT!
I spent most of this weekend at the filk convention Conflikt, and that was great fun, but even as a bunch of geeky music was going on I kept an eye on the kerfuffle that exploded between Amazon and Macmillan. The issue at hand appears to be the pricing of ebooks, and as an ebook…