I am reliably informed that Troll Valley is now available in (for?) the iBooks app. As I understand it, I don’t need to provide any kind of a link, just inform you that this is so. The world of iStuff is a mystery to me.
Also, someone pointed me to this link, which takes you to a full-length image of the Bayeux Tapestry. You can scroll it from one end to the other. It’s rather impressive, seen front to back. Like the mother of all comic books.
Author and editor Nick Harrison asks if a book can be published, and if published, can it sell if it has a sad ending. “I like a sad ending that offers hope, but I think those of us who feel that way are in the minority,” he says. “A sad ending in a book for our market has an uphill struggle…”
I’ve been having a small problem with my beloved Kindle’s battery. It’s supposed to last about 3 weeks, if you keep the WiFi use down, but mine has been lasting about 2 weeks. So I called them a couple weeks ago, and they ran me through some procedures to re-set it. That didn’t do the job, so I spoke to Customer Service on Sunday, and they told me they’d send me a new Kindle. I got it today.
I call that pretty good service. All I have to do now is pack the old Kindle up in the mailer box, and send it back to them for cannibalization.
It’s still under warranty. If the warranty had run out, I’d have to pay a modest fee for the replacement, far less than buying a new one.
I remain a Kindle fan.
Everybody’s talking about the Florida Primary today. I only remember one primary from my years of residence in Florida. I was still a Democrat back then, struggling with the increasingly obvious fact that my party hated both me and the horse I rode in on. I puzzled over who to support for president, and decided that the one who seemed most socially conservative was… Al Gore. Continue reading Three things
I’m currently contacting bloggers, offering free e-copies of Troll Valley for review. If you are writing an established blog (no newbies or once-a-year bloggers allowed), contact me through this blog to ask for yours.
Update: To make the process easier, the handiest way to request a review copy is to e-mail me at lars (AT) larswalker (dot) com, and let me know what reader format you prefer. Thanks. lw
You won a free e-copy of Troll Valley by suggesting the subtitle we used on the cover. Please contact me by e-mail to get your file.
Earning money from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library
In other news, I have joined Lars in becoming a Kindle Fire owner. It’s nice, though I haven’t used it a lot yet. I need to install wi-fi at home. I see there are a number of classic books on Kindle for free. I pulled down Thoughts on Art and Life, some Jonathan Edwards’ sermons, and several Wodehouse novels. Does anyone have any recommendations?
As promised, for you Kindle owners, Troll Valley is now available in that sacred format at Amazon.com.
As a side note, I e-mailed Andrew Klavan himself today, offering him a review copy, and he actually wrote back and said he’d like one. (Apparently I won his favor with my favorable review of Agnes Mallory.)
So you might say it’s a good day.
And now you know what to do with that Amazon gift card you got for Christmas!
I’m going to try to do a splashier announcement when the Kindle version is available too, but for now Troll Valley is available for your Nook (plus a couple odd formats for phones and things, as I understand it) from Lulu.
I’m a Kindle guy myself, and strongly object to this discrimination in favor of Nook owners. I shall send myself a stiff letter of protest without delay.
Thomas Lee writes about being rejected and imagines there are multiple tiers of rejection letters from literary journals like Ploughshares. “In what other field can someone brag about the quality of one’s rejection?”