Writing Stuff, Of Business And Haste

[madwriter]

Happy Birthday! to Philip Jose Farmer, who would have turned 93 today.

I just sent out an e-mail to Pete Crowther over at PS Publishing asking if he might be interested in trying to reprint The City Beyond Play as an e-book by way of Fictionwise. (This was actually a coincidence of timing, by the way

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[lisapt]

You may want to wander over to the forums at

http://www.mobileread.com/

and poke around (as if you have time). My impression of Fictionwise is that it is winding down, but I hope I'm wrong. I've heard good and bad from Smashwords. Baen Books always gets good reviews, so you might want to check them out too.

http://www.baen.com/

I love ebooks, btw. I have a tiny house so it is a great solution.

So sorry about losing your writing. As an electrical engineer, I can verify that computers are out to get us all. I'm rather obsessive about backing stuff up, but something can always go wrong...

[madwriter]

I love Baen, though TCBP is tricky since it's only a little over 30,000 words. As solely an e-book, though, maybe this wouldn't be as much of an issue.

Thanks for the heads-up!

As for the losing of the writing, that was completely my fault. The computer and flash drive did exactly what I told them to do, which in my rush was exactly the wrong thing.

[madwriter]

Nuts--I don't know how I missed this, but Piers Anthony has the same impression of Fictionwise on his e-book list that you do.