*** All that effort spelling out the lulu url and I got it wrong! To buy a copy, pls point your typewriter to http://www.lulu.com/awkwardly
Melinda’s comments about the phrase “white trash” were spot-on. I’m just continuing the argument that giving your book away as a free download is more helpful than harmful for your sales of print books. (It would be cool if Amazing Atheist decided to try this. It’s uncool if someone pirated it and gave it away against his will.)
You can download the entire text of “Dungeons and Dayjobs,” my book of short sci-fi and fantasy stories, as a pdf file at http://www.archive.org/details/dungeons_and_dayjobs_anthology
You can also hear some of the stories like a free audiobook at http://dayjobspodcast.blogspot.com
Then after you’ve sampled some stories and decided it’s worth buying, send all your major credit cards to http://www.lulu.com/awkwardly
You can also look this up by title on Amazon, but it’s not available for sale through them.
Update 5 Mar 2010: New study shows correlation between free ebooks and higher print sales. Published in the Journal of Electronic Publishing.
http://bloggasm.com/new-study-shows-some-correlation-between-free-ebooks-and-higher-print-sales
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Black Books
Season 2 Episode 3
“The Fixer”
(This is an edit of Fran’s side story during the episode.)
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Created by Dylan Moran
Starring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey & Tamsin Greig
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Check out the trailer for ‘Inkheart,’ based on the best-selling novel about a young girl’s father who has the power to bring characters from books to life by reading those books aloud. The film comes out in January 2009. (Oct. 1)
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Here are the 10 most frequently challenged books of 2006. For more information visit http://www.ala.org/oif.
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http://quickbookstutorials.blogspot.com
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Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment, is a new book release from Greystone Books, a division of Douglas & McIntyre. This animated version of Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’ (www.mny.ca) illustrations tells the hummingbird’s story of doing what it can. Environmental activists from the world over have adopted the parable to convey their own message. It also inspired Greystone Books to do what we can to help the environment. Find out more about what we did at greystonebooks.com.
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A legless goat sings the blues to promote Alex Burrett’s new collection of short stories called ‘My Goat Ate Its Own Legs’. Available now in bookshops and online – www.beautiful-books.com
Credits – Creative: Ben Akers, Director: Ben Whitehouse, Producer: Rebecca McJannett, sung by: TJ Johnson, animated by: Mark Nute & Mark Jobe, model maker: Dan Martin
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The very definition of irony. Too stupid for words… and I mean that literally.
An uptight Christo-fascist girl and her father in a small town near Conroe, Texas try to get her high school to ban the sci-fi classic “Fahrenheit 451″ for containing “offensive material”.
Do you think they missed the point?
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The audience that appeared for Karl Rove’s book signing for his latest piece, ‘Courage and Consequences’ seemed easy-going and conservative enough, comfortably nestled in affluent Thousand Oaks, California.
But that proved to be an inconvenient illusion as protestors and demonstrators casually revealed themselves from both his audience and from outside, calling him ‘War Criminal!’, buying copies of his new book and tearing it up in front of his face, and demanding Rove’s arrest for war crimes and crimes against humanity. American parents who had lost children in the Iraq war, ex-military personnel, average civilians and students alike were on the scene to protest the man known as “George W. Bush’s Brain” and “The Architect.”
The manager of the Borders book store in Thousand Oaks specifically announced that Karl Rove strictly forbids any and all recording of his signing appearances, preventing us from getting interior footage of the altercations. One customer who actually purchased a copy of the book — but expressed sympathy with the ex-Navy serviceman who tore up his copy of ‘Courage and Consequences’ right after he paid for it — was apparently dragged out of his seat and halfway across the store by Rove’s bodyguards, before being slammed up against a door frame. The police were called at once but declined to make an arrest, instead placing the burden of a citizen’s arrest upon the victim. (He is currently considering whether to press charges and/or sue Rove’s bodyguards.)
We must credit the two officers from the Ventura Sheriff’s Department, who responded in a calm yet commanding, attentive and respectful attitude at all times. One officer even confirmed the protester’s right to be there, provided that certain rules were followed regarding non-obstruction of traffic.
Rove and entourage ducked out the back door and quickly made a beeline out of there. Better watch your back, MC Rove…looks like you made some enemies, gangster!
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Submit online via email to literary agents and editors. How to submit poems, short stories, books, essays, and novels by sending creative writing via pasted-in text and via email attachments. See other Writers Relief video tutorials about how to get published: http://www.writersrelief.com/video-tutorials.aspx.
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