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New Greenlea Tale: The Grey Girls
louisev:
hey, guess what? I wrote another chapter!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/269390.html 'Chapter 47'
mariez:
Great to see a new chapter up, Louise - I get twitchy if I go too long without Ellery :)
SPOILERS
Guess we can't forget about Amos, can we? :-\ You're doing a great job showing that dealing with Amoses and their attorneys is sometimes like playing a high stakes poker game.
I wonder how Pam's deposition is going .....and I wonder if it's too late to get the girls enrolled in classes - they need to find ways to occupy themselves without depending upon their dad, stepdad, Wes and Edna.
I'd forgotten about the plans for Dupree's party; it'll be nice to have something to celebrate - they could all use it!
Marie
P.S. Now that Ellery is getting their phone number changed, here's his chance NOT to give it to Wayne! LOL!
souxi:
Two things. Firstly is there any news on getting The Tales of Greenlea County published, and secondly, once all this is over, "our boys" will need a honeymoon. They certainly deserve and need some time away together. But please, NO speedos on the beach!!! BLURGH. I can,t STAND men in speedos, horrible things. Nice tight denim shorts will do nicely thanks. *thinks of those gorgeous thighs of Hughs, encased in tiny denim shorts* *THUD* ;) ;D
louisev:
sorry about my lack of regularity. I am trying to adjust mentally to putting in full days of development work. Unlike my last job, this one demands ACTUAL LABOR! So my mind is occupied fully with technical tasks for a whopping 8 hours a day. Which means, of course, that I think about what didn't get done when I get home. So this might take a bit of adjustments. I did manage to clear my mind enough by Sunday night to eke out a chapter, and next week is the Memorial Day 3 day weekend holiday. So -- good news for more chapters then.
About getting the Greenlea Tales published, we are still slogging away trying to get an agent, but the first book is ready to go, edited to a nicety and all publishable. But after 7 turndowns from agents in a row, and further deep research by my associate Leslie, we are finding that general publication is getting to be harder and harder, and not only this, if we are lucky enough to get a 'general publication' we might be on our own for publicity, since publishers more and more are not investing in publicity even for the books they publish and distribute. This is very disheartening. As a result, we are considering the alternatives in POD and e-book publication, and Leslie has gone forward with e-book publication for Mobipocket and Kindle for my already-in-print novel, 'The Erotic Etudes' as a test to find out what kind of sales might be generated through e-publication.
But we are still at it, and still want to get the entire series in print! It's a question of ... effort.
MaineWriter:
It is a question of effort and it is a question of, the publishing world is changing right under the nose of publishers, and they don't even realize it. Publishers seem to believe the adage, "the vast majority of Americans don't even read one book a year." Well, maybe that is true, but there is a sizable minority who are reading one or two books a day. I know this is true, I hang out on the Kindle forum and these folks (folks, plural) are posting and talking about their reading habits. I am becoming more convinced on a daily basis that ebooks are going to take hold. It is exciting to be in on the ground floor.
And with the ground floor...if you want to read The Erotic Etudes Opus VI you can find it here on mobipocket:
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/eBookDetails.asp?BookID=83150
It includes a free download for a sample. The ebook link is not live on amazon.com (yet) but I hope it will be in 24 hours or less. Here's the link...refresh it every now and then and eventually there will be a book for sale.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Erotic-%C3%89tudes-Opus-VI/dp/B0019R0YK4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1211220787&sr=1-1
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