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Category Archives: DAW

July
5
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A bit about ebook availability for various platforms

Posted in DAW, ebooks, Essalieyan.

Hilda asked a ques­tion in a prior comment thread, and I thought I would answer it because it also allows me to talk a bit about avail­ability of ebooks on different plat­forms. Concern and ques­tion: For my birthday in August, I requested my sons and daughter to give me an easy to use e‑reader, (I have way over 1,000 books at home) Your paper books are showing my intense use. I’m in no way an expert in anything elec­tronic. Previous discus­sions in this forum seem to indi­cate diffi­cul­ties in obtaining your books or some of them in Kindle. No discus­sions of the Nook. 3 days ago, I went to compare Kindle and Nook. I found lots of your books in the Nook (Barnes and Noble) under Sagara and West, … Continue reading →

July
1
20 Comments

Public Service Announcement

Posted in Business, DAW, self-publishing, Short Stories.

Thanks everyone for your input on my previous ques­tion. We (this would be the West house­hold) are going to keep the Author Name under which the stories were orig­i­nally published. I have ISBNs! I have a block of one hundred ISBNs! I’m sorry — ISBNs always make me ridicu­lously happy. It’s a quirk. Some people might notice that on Smash­words there is one Michelle West novella avail­able; this is because I wanted to make sure that the Smash­words format­ting — on my end — actu­ally works. (It does! Yay! It’s the first thing I’ve done so far that’s worked right on the first attempt). It also takes about two weeks for any Smash­words titles to prop­a­gate to their various retailer sites. Because I’m Cana­dian, there are extra tax forms that … Continue reading →

January
11
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House Name is in the House, and an answer to the Kindle Question

Posted in Books, DAW, grovelling apology.

House Name, the third of the House War foun­da­tion books, and the final book set in the early years of the den, is now in my house.  I would have posted sooner, but this partic­ular holiday season, we were visited by the very long and very drawn out cold bug (I’d call it a ‘flu, but it seems to have hit all the people who were smart enough to have ‘flu shots as well). When I say ‘we’, I mean everyone but my husband (which would include my visiting sister, my parents, my chil­dren’s godpar­ents – everyone). It was not an impres­sively produc­tive holiday season, but I am now returning to life and to work. And to email, which is so very, very backed up it would … Continue reading →

December
13
18 Comments

House Name sample chapter

Posted in Books, DAW, download, writing.

Aaron asked me earlier — while I was in bunker mode — if I’d put up a sample or teaser chapter for House Name, as it’s due out very soon. Because I’ve been late and things have been hectic, I’ve only just now managed to do this — but in compen­sa­tion (yes, sadly, I’ve been needing to use that word a lot recently), I’ve put up the prologue and the first chapter of the book. It’s on the House War page in the sidebar/bibiliography link up top. It’s only .pdf, at the moment; let me know if that’s a problem for anyone.

December
13
16 Comments

State of the Writing, December 2010

Posted in DAW, Luna, writing, Miscellaneous.

Mikaela wrote: If you have some free-ish time would you mind updating the news section? Or actu­ally, updating anywhere with info on Cast in Ruin?? Or anything really. You haven’t posted on the site for a while. :( That, and I can’t wait for Cast in Ruin! I’m soo excited! Happy Holi­days Michelle! I admit that when I don’t have anything new to report, I start to feel a tiny bit self-conscious posting, because the actual content, stripped of words, boils down to: Still writing. While my oldest son considers writer-angst and doubt a spec­tator sport – at a safe distance, of course – it’s not inher­ently that inter­esting as an activity when viewed exter­nally. (He’s also gotten used to the middle of book stretch in which I despair, although he gently … Continue reading →