I recently got myself a Kindle, so I've spent the last week learning how to format books for it! The SotT books are now available in Kindle e-book editions, here ( Read more... )

I finished HTMLifying my favorite stories from the latest story-prompt thing and putting them in their places: on mchandler.org if you don't mind serifs, and on the original site if you prefer it original flavor.

I waffled hugely over my choices, but in the end I went with four: the High Fidelity Lacuna, the Vegas sequence, the Johnny story, and ( Read more... )

The promotional department at Lulu strikes yet again. From now until the end of July, if you buy one or more of my books from Lulu and enter the code 'BEACHREAD' at checkout, you'll save a flat 10% off the sales price, up to US$10. I have no idea if this stacks with the free summer shipping to the US or not, but I think it very well might! [EDIT: ( Read more... )

Lulu's running some kind of summer event: orders over $19.95 now ship for free! ... if you're shipping to a US address. Go figure.

I don't know how long this promotion will last--they didn't bother to tell me--so if you live in the US and you want to save six to eight bucks on shipping, now's the time to grab the books. Here's my Lulu shop, if you ( Read more... )

A few of you did express interest, so the ebook/PDF versions of all four books are now available in my Lulu store. They're ninety-five cents each and do feature the nice new typesetting; they'll print out with pretty ginormous margins, but they should still print out prettily ( Read more... )

1. Just a heads-up, folks: the eBay auction for the signed copies of the books has slightly less than a day left to run. (About twenty-one hours, as of this writing.) I just want to thank everyone for their interest; I wasn't expecting the auction to do quite this well and it's left me all squeaky. :D ( Read more... )

Boy, I'm just a postin' fool today, apparently.

Lulu is upgrading the paper quality on the little pocket-sized books; the new paper is thicker and thus requires a wider book spine. (As if High Fidelity wasn't chunky enough. Yeesh.) In order to keep selling the little ones, I would therefore have to create and upload new versions of the covers. ( Read more... )

1). Work continues apace on the mass-market editions of the SotT books! The new edition of The Morning Star is 100% done, inside and out; I'm sprucing up the cover of Double Down right now, so it's at about 90%; and the interiors of both With A Bullet and High Fidelity are complete and only awaiting their new covers, so they're at about 80% each ( Read more... )

I got the test copy of the mass-market edition of The Morning Star this week, and it looks terrific! I made the .pdf using a special typesetting markup language called LaTeX, and it looks pretty professional (or at least one hell of a lot better than the .pdf I managed to produce in OpenOffice ( Read more... )

Hey, folks, the paperback edition of High Fidelity is now available! It is (erk) 509 pages and (double erk) $15.45.

That being said, I'd actually like to encourage you not to buy it, unless you already own the first three books in this edition and want the complete set, or are very impatient. As I've mentioned in other places, I'm in the process ( Read more... )