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Last post Author Topic: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!  (Read 431544 times)

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #900 on: March 04, 2014, 10:44 AM »
Panzer, I emailed it a few minutes ago. Let me know if you don't get it  :)

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #901 on: March 05, 2014, 02:38 AM »
kyrathaba, I emailed it a few minutes ago. Let me know if you don't get it  :) (btw, I got it)

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #902 on: June 22, 2014, 09:16 AM »
Wanted to let everyone know that "Kyrathaba Rising" won book of the month on Book Review Depot, a 1,200-member book review group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/BookReviewDepot/permalink/295659287274823/?comment_id=295663907274361&notif_t=group_comment_reply

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #903 on: June 22, 2014, 09:22 AM »
Congrats!  That page can only be accessed if you log into facebook -- is there a link that doesn't require facebook login?

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #904 on: June 22, 2014, 09:24 AM »
Mm, well, it should propagate to authorscave.com/brd/ soon.
« Last Edit: June 22, 2014, 09:35 AM by kyrathaba »

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #905 on: June 22, 2014, 09:57 AM »
Congrats  :up:

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #906 on: June 22, 2014, 10:01 AM »
Thanks, rgdot!

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #907 on: June 22, 2014, 12:46 PM »

Well done K-Man!

Guess I'm gonna have to wait like Mouser for the Author's Cave write-up.

I'm in the "I don't do Facebook*" group too.

(*or Twitter, or Google+, or... :-\)

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #908 on: October 28, 2014, 03:55 PM »
I have two free downloads of the audiobook version of Kyrathaba Rising to give away to DC members. If my illustrator and proofreader would contact me, I'll send you two your coupon codes and the link.

http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Kyrathaba-Rising-Audiobook/B00OSI3WAA/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1414516940&sr=11

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #909 on: October 28, 2014, 03:57 PM »
i want audiobook version!!

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #910 on: October 28, 2014, 09:53 PM »
I want Volume 2!!  :P

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #911 on: October 28, 2014, 09:59 PM »
i want audiobook version!!

On a side note, I've been finding the TTS+ plugin for FBReader on Android to be pretty decent -- at least with the U.K. male voice (I think that's with the Google TTS system underneath).

IIUC, FBReader can handle (some?) mobi and epub.

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #912 on: October 28, 2014, 11:11 PM »
IIUC, FBReader can handle (some?) mobi and epub.

ePub, partial ePub3, Kindle (mobipocket), fb2, RTF, Doc, HTML, text, PDF (plugin), DjVu (plugin), LitRes (plugin), and connect to Calibre for catalogs (plugin).

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #913 on: October 28, 2014, 11:34 PM »
I want Volume 2!!  :P

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #914 on: October 29, 2014, 07:45 AM »
Thanks for the encouragement, guys :) Hopefully, my muse will strike again soon. In the meantime, I make a little extra cash proofreading for people.

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #915 on: October 29, 2014, 10:49 AM »
^I'll wait however long it takes. :Thmbsup:

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #916 on: October 29, 2014, 11:30 PM »
^I'll wait however long it takes. :Thmbsup:

I'd prefer to read it before I depart this planet for the next ... or at least have it to read on the way  ;)

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #917 on: October 30, 2014, 06:16 PM »
Do you anticipate departing soon?  :o

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #918 on: October 30, 2014, 09:15 PM »
Maybe we could just all transfer into the virtual such that our physical demise wouldn't matter? ;)

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #919 on: October 31, 2014, 07:45 AM »
Highly experimental. Not even sure if Sethra will survive it...  :P

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #920 on: October 31, 2014, 10:20 PM »
Do you anticipate departing soon?  :o

I'm not sure, I've had a sign saying "Willful UFO abductee" on my roof for some time but I'm still stuck on this planet.


Still, it'd be nice to have something to read  ;)

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #921 on: November 01, 2014, 09:08 AM »
@4wd: Have you read the Necroscope series, by Brian Lumley? Very good stuff.

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Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Reply #922 on: November 01, 2014, 02:25 PM »
@4wd: Have you read the Necroscope series, by Brian Lumley? Very good stuff.

I've read all his books at least four times over.  His version of the vampire mythos is better than the original AFAIAC.

One of the very best authors I've ever read.

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« Reply #923 on: November 02, 2014, 07:32 PM »
I downloaded Amazon's kinder app for PC, bought the kinder version of Kyrathaba Rising and read it today. Nicely done! One more vote for Kyrathaba Waxing to come soon. I haven't read this entire thread so maybe this has been covered, but I was pleasantly surprised that "Byron Milner" didn't turn into a fictional William Bryan Miller - if you have inserted yourself into the story it feels like you spread yourself out among more than one character.

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« Reply #924 on: November 23, 2014, 05:48 PM »
PDF (plugin), DjVu (plugin)

I hadn't tried those yet -- I think there may be source code for the DjVu plugin but perhaps not for the PDF plugin.

It'll be nicer if TTS support comes about for the PDF and DjVu functionality.  Also nice would be a PDF plugin -- hmm, may be a MuPDF-based thing might be doable...