Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair

[rolanni]

It has been, if I may say so, a weekend of parts.

Steve and I decided to goof off magnificently on Friday evening and went to see “Hanna” at Railroad Square Cinema, the local arts theater. Stipulating that it is a very violent movie, it’s well worth the price of admission — kind of an action-adventure art film, with depth, and intelligence. I’m still chewing on big chunks of it, and of that, nothing more, since I don’t want to spoil things for those who haven’t seen it yet.

Saturday was a writing day — Chapter Fourteen of the Book Presently Known as George — with some reading at the end of it. Steve and I had so much fun reading Betrayer to each other that we decided to do the same by Foreigner.

Today — Today we left the house early-ish, meaning to find breakfast at Eric’s. Alas, when we walked in all the hostess could offer us was a place at the counter. “I’m sorry, guys,” she said, waving around at the empty tables. “On Sunday, they get on their cellphones the minute church lets out, and call in to hold a table. Any other day of the week, we’d have room…”

That being so, we went ‘cross town to the Holiday Inn that had been and is now the Waterville Grand Hotel, where I had a veggie skillet with cheese, Steve had two eggs over easy, and we shared a fresh-made blueberry crepe for dessert. Excellent. Thank you, Eric’s.

It being so bright and sunny and warm, we went for a drive, down to Belfast to see the sights, and pay our respects to the bay. Home again by way of the Agway and grocery store to take on needed supplies for humans and catkind.

Arrived at home and the groceries dispersed, I returned to my office and compiled Two Tales of Korval for the ninety-millionith time and uploaded one file to Amazon.com and one file to Barnes and Noble. Each merchant tells me that the books will be available for purchase in a day or two.

We will be slowly converting and uploading all of the SRM paper chapbooks under the imprint of Pinbeam Books. Each ebook will cost $2.99, and you’ll be able to read them on your Kindle and your Nook.

I think that’s all the news that’s fit to print, except that tomorrow is Monday. But I’m guessing you knew that.

Did everybody have a good weekend?

Progress on the Book Presently Known as George
33,982 words/100,000 OR 33% complete

“I overheard my small sister say to the luthia that you prayed, Brother.  I do not want to intrude, but I thought you might be done.”

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[otterb.livejournal.com]

Pinbeam Books, I love it.

ebooks

[doccolt.livejournal.com]

Now I have to buy a Kindle I suppose since I don't do anything ebookish using color that would require a Nook. I already have most of the other styles available, paperback, trade, hardback, ARC and uncorrected page proofs where I've found them.

[doushkasmum.livejournal.com]

Yay for chapbooks on Kindle!

Weekend

[trekgirlmo.livejournal.com]

I'm embarrassed to say that I spent most of today watching cheesy disaster movies on Scyfy. I did, however, spend about 2 hours reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars first. That is not an easy book to get through and 2 hours is the most I can do at once.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the mention of Hanna. I hadn't seen anything about that one. Its not out in the UK until next month, but it sounds interesting so I'll keep an eye out for it.
Good news about the chapbooks being available as ebooks. I already have the ones that are available through the Baen site, but I think there are some of the later ones I haven't got.

Melvyn
Darlington UK

Attention one-armed Maine residents!

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I am informed by a moderately reliable source that one-armed Maine residents will be allowed to use switchblades (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/08/maine_switchblades/) by a new law. Apparently they are currently disadvantaged because the law only permits a knife which needs two hands to open.

I just thought that you ought to know. In case you happen to know anyone in the area with one arm, who might now be re-armed...

[adriannem.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for putting the chap books up on B&N! I love reading on my nook/ipad.

[(Anonymous)]

So glad they are coming for the Kindle. Thank you! Just finished re-reading most of my Liaden hardbacks this weekend as I wait to find out if I will be re-hired by the new company that took over the contract I've been under for four years. You've provided calm in the midst of chaos. I've also been able to introduce the universe to my adult son over the last few weeks. Thanks. Can't wait for Ghost Ship and the access to the chapbooks on Kindle.

Re: ebooks

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

You can get a Kindle for PC program for free, you know. Srsly.

Re: Attention one-armed Maine residents!

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I had seen that. A definite Third Policeman air to that law...

[jack_calls_dances]

Where will the chapbooks be available? Directly from korval.com or at another location? Definitely looking forward to them!

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

From Amazon.com's Kindle Store and from BN's Nook Store.

Eventually, they'll be available from the Apple Store, but there will be some lag, since Apple insists that an ebook that touches a PC will never touch the Apple Store. Which means that any ebooks intended for the Apple Store must be created on and uploaded from a Mac.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Hope there's good news on the job front.

[sraun]

Are you starting with oldest chapbooks first?

Re: ebooks

[star-horse3.livejournal.com]

You can also get a non-color Nook (for considerably less money). That's what I have and I have books from many sources on it.

[(Anonymous)]

Really delighted to hear there will be e-chapbooks soon. It’s made my day! Phyllis

Chapbooks

[claire774.livejournal.com]

I am seriously tech challenged. I can't believe that I was able to get on this Live Journal thing. I congratulate myself every day on that one . SOooo On behalf of my friend who has a Kindle. How exactly does she find your chapbooks? By the way I'd never heard of the term "chapbooks" before meeting Lee and Miller. I used to call them either short stories or novellas. Soo...You go to where? Say The Barnes and Noble site. Then you look for Lee and Miller and then you look for "chapbooks"? Would that work? What does "Pinbeam Imprint" mean. Do you have to look for that too?

I'm very proud of myself. I have practically all your chapbooks in the original bindings so I don't have to worry. Unless....you plan for all future chapbooks to be under that Pinbeam thing on the whatsis? I've already started to worry, actually. Oh drat.

Any info very welcome. Thanks.
C.

Yay for e-chap-book!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have any shelf space left, so I haven't read your chapbooks. So yay for Kindle + Nook. Now I can read Lee&Miller on my phone. And I can program my toaster oven too...

Chapbooks

[claire774.livejournal.com]

After much thought I realized that the term "chapbook" probably refers to the binding of that the very small publication. What if you were to publish your novellas and short stories in the form of a book. It's title could be "Tales of Korval, Magic and Cats"
C.

Toaster Oven?

[claire774.livejournal.com]

Hey buddy: Was that comment that you can program a toaster oven at my expense? Do you jest? No I can't program a toaster oven. That's why I don't have one. I'm thinking about getting a cell phone but it won't be the kind you can read on. I carry around something called a paperback book for that.

I understand that one can easily pay $100 a month for one of those fancy phones. My paperback, used, costs around $4.50 (including shipping). I'd say that's a bargain. After I read it I give it away to someone.

Also Steve made it real easy for us to buy Skyblaze. We just signed up for it on a list Sharon provided on a link and Steve sent it to us through the mail! Wow. The audacity of that! As long as he keeps sending the chapbooks that way I won't have any trouble. Of course there might be an easier way so he won't have to carry heavy piles of chapbooks. We'll see.
C.

Re: Chapbooks

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Chapbook: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapbook

If your friend has a Kindle, she probably wants to go to Amazon. Then, she does just what you do when you're looking for a particular title: she types the title into the Amazon search box, and Amazon obligingly returns a page of search results. If she searches for "Two Tales of Korval," The Kindle edition, when it finally clears Amazon's inventory process, possibly as soon as later today, will be on that list. She clicks, pays the price, downloads, and reads.

The "Pinbeam thing" is an imprint. Even paper books have imprints, and have for a long time.

for all future chapbooks to be under that Pinbeam thing on the whatsis?

Right now, we're converting the backlist. I don't think we'll get away from paper entirely, at least for the first printing of the annual Yule book, but we're still talking about how best to go from here. This involves needing more time to write, and since the time has to come from somewhere, the logical thing to do is severely limit the amount of packing and mailing that needs to be done.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Ah, this is where I saw that question.

Answer: Sort of, but not exactly. I started with TTOK because I had it handy, mostly. Steve is working on The Naming of Kinzel, so that's probably next to go up. We're Learning By Doing. Again.

Re: ebooks

[doccolt.livejournal.com]

Actually I didn't know that. Thank You Very Much!