Look out Sony e-reader, Nook and Kobo, because Amazon announced this week that Kindles are now on display and available for purchase at 3,200 Walmart stores.
Genre fiction is selling so well on Kindle that Amazon is stepping further into the publishing roll. They've opened up an imprint, Montlake Romance, that will publish everything from paranormal romance to suspense romance.
The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article about how self-pubbed e-books are totally upending the e-book market. My favourite
The crowd that clings to paper books has a standard set of excuses as to why they prefer dead, pulped trees over electrons as their delivery system for words.
I can't wait to see Priest, because I'm pretty sure that the movie's high-tech take on vampire fighting is very different from my post-apocalyptic novel where gunpowder is so scarce that people carry swords and cross bows as supplementary weapons.
My short story, White Metal, took the cover of the Storyteller Magazine's fall 2006 edition, but this is not that
But speaking of published: the second story I ever had published, Beer Truck, is now available for Kindle. Take it for a spin, but keep in mind that the story is about people doing very dumb things, taking chances so huge that a Darwin award is but one slippery grip away. Don't try this at home.
Railroaded tied for second in the 2005 Great Canadian story contest. How three judges tied for their second place vote I'm not really sure, but hey, I'll take it.
It seems the Charlie Sheen school of publicity has hit the indie publishing scene in a big way. Author Jacqueline Howett took great exception to book blogger Big Al's review of her indie novel.
Yup, I'm finally ready to re-launch my Sioux Rock Falls Short Story, Burning Moose. This was the first of a series of stories that appeared in Storyteller Magazine between 2002 and 2006.