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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 25, 2013, 05:19 PM »

Update on the novel's retail coverage:

Smashwords: YES (but not yet approved for Premium Catalog {needed to promote it to Sony eReader} - *twiddles thumbs*)
Amazon: YES
Scribd: YES
Payhip: YES
Booktango: IN PROCESS
Barnes & Noble: IN PROCESS
GooglePlay: IN PROCESS (they will make it available in Japan, France, United States, Russia, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Italy, Canada)

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 25, 2013, 05:15 PM »

Yeah, I thought that was a real tip of the hat to Perry and 4wd, when a reviewer notes that great proofreading has occurred!

For those of you who don't Facebook:

Tomorrow is my 42nd birthday (yeah, I'm gettin' some gray hairs). In celebration, I'm making my book, Kyrathaba Rising, 15% off all day tomorrow. Use the following coupon code when you checkout from Smashwords: PD89G Again, the coupon is PD89G The link for my book is: https://www.smashwor...om/books/view/339398

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 25, 2013, 02:32 PM »

Got my first review on Goodreads:

Rating: 4 of 5 stars

I read this book because I know the guy who wrote it. Holy smokes, I didn't realize this guy could write!

I liked the gritty tone, the fact that the author maintains a brisk pacing, and -- being me -- I LOVED the androids' by-play with the humans, especially the elevator scene with the med tech! Laughed till I cried!

Unlike most ebooks I download for free or purchase, this one had almost no obvious errors. Apparently, some proofreading went into it.

Is it of the same caliber as Clarke? Aasimov? Perhaps not yet. But it was a well-executed book. It ends on a major cliff-hanger, which makes me want to strangle the author. That being illegal, I'm going to pester him to hurry up and write the sequel!

If you like sci-fi generally, studded with humor and gritty realism, you'll like this book.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 24, 2013, 10:33 PM »

It couldn't munge it worse than Jutoh. And Sigil is OSS and from what I've gleaned, the dev team is highly knowledgeable about the inner workings of Epub.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 24, 2013, 09:24 PM »

I'm reading the Help for Sigil. So far, it seems like a very decent ebook-authoring tool.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 24, 2013, 08:00 PM »

A local online magazine published a nice article about the e-book (although I wish they'd had Perry and 4wd proofread it first):

http://columbiamagazine.com/photoarchive.php?photo_id=50643

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 23, 2013, 11:24 PM »

Good deal.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 23, 2013, 11:00 PM »

4wd, hold off on any further editing. I've incorporated discussed fixes, but I'm wore out and gonna set this aside at least a few weeks.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 23, 2013, 09:19 PM »

Novel now available on Amazon, Scribd, and Smashwords. Waiting on approval from GoogleBooks and for Smashwords to approve it for its Premium Catalog, which will distribute it to Kobo, Diesel, some library e-book rentals, etc.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 23, 2013, 08:06 PM »

Nevermind, found the right one.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 23, 2013, 07:45 PM »

Is the Gdoc still named Kyrathaba Rising 20130723 ?

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 23, 2013, 07:40 PM »

Just got first fan mail. A lady wanting the sequel NOW. 

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 23, 2013, 07:40 PM »

It should also be available via Google Books any day now.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 23, 2013, 07:38 PM »

I like Leor Jackal 

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 23, 2013, 07:04 PM »

The novel, Kyrathaba Rising, is now available on Amazon, Smashwords, and Scribd (screenshots are in that order, below). Click on an image below to go to the store:

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 23, 2013, 02:45 PM »

^ That's why I need proofreaders 

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 23, 2013, 02:14 PM »

Proofreaders, not Proofreader's

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 23, 2013, 01:44 PM »

Thanks for the congrats guys. Mouser, thanks for the purchase! A huge part of the credit goes to 4wd and Perry for their amazing editing.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 23, 2013, 10:19 AM »

At this point, we're at a place in the book's development where I deem it "releasable"; much as we software developers reach a point at which we say to ourselves, "this piece of software is not perfect, but it's useful. I'm going to release it to the world, and then update it as I find the occasional bug or add the occasional feature."

Therefore, the book is now available on Smashwords, and has already sold several copies. When mouser and the authors I've submitted to give their review, I'll ask permission to quote a blurb, and will upload an updated ebook with 3 or 4 blurbs in the front. It would also be wonderful if they reviewed it on Goodreads and Amazon.

I cannot say enough great things about Perry and 4wd, who have been excellent, truly outstanding proofreaders and have suggested invaluable edits. They will each be receiving a digitally autographed e-book copy. We still have the latest epub on Gdocs, scrutinizing, pruning...

The book will soon be available on Amazon and GoogleBooks as well. It is the same price everywhere: $2.99 USD. People who have "Liked" my author page on Facebook can contact me for a coupon code good for 15%-off this price.

In adding up samples downloaded from Goodreads, DC, Scribd, Smashwords and Issue, I see that way over 300 previews have been made of the book. On Smashwords, you can download 50% of the entire book as a free sample. Same will be true on Amazon once it passes review.

If at any point in the future you read the book and enjoy it, please let Perry and 4wd know. They deserve equal credit in any success it may enjoy.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 21, 2013, 05:12 PM »

Mouser, sent you email with updated MOBI file.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 21, 2013, 04:27 PM »

Our hard deadline for publishing is 8/10, but I'd like to publish by my birthday, July 26th, 5 days from now, if we can swing it. That would be cool. However, we'll just have to see.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 21, 2013, 04:22 PM »

OoooOooohhh, exciting news! We've gone through Draft 3 and weeded thoroughly. Mouser, if you've been keeping notes on errors you find, you may wanna PM me for an updated mobi. I'm gonna bet 99% of them are resolved, now.

We're VERY close to having this puppy whipped into publishable shape. I honestly could NOT have done it without Perry and 4wd. They are word-hounds! I can't overstate how rife with typos and other types of errors this book would be without their talents as proofreaders.

I've sent Perry an epub of the scrubbed 3rd draft, mainly just to ensure that our changes we made in gDocs "stuck" in my Jutoh MS. But I'm hoping to publish in the next few days. Just sent Perry an email, Joel, with your suggestion to Gdocify the updated epub.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 21, 2013, 09:55 AM »

^ But, an evil empire that can get word-of-mouse to spread about my book. Per my Fan Page report, I've reached over 800 people and made them aware of the upcoming book. 8,000 would be better. There's that 0.2 percent that are book-o-philes, and want to read anything new coming out. Then there are the specific-genre-o-philes who'll want to read a book involving aliens, or because it's post-apocalypse Earth.

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Living Room / town in Canada getting 1 Gbps internet cheaper than Google Fiber

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 20, 2013, 09:59 PM »

http://mobilizer.instapaper.com/m?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.engadget.com%2F2013%2F07%2F19%2Folds-canada-1gbps-internet%2F%3Futm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_source%3DFeed_Classic%26utm_campaign%3DEngadget

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Living Room / Re: new DVD "M-Disc" perfect for archive material

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 20, 2013, 08:15 PM »

A couple of years ago we heard about a curious method of storing data that uses “monolithic glass space-variant polarization converters,” with wild promises of storing our media in five dimensions. Now it’s a reality. Or rather, the concept has been successfully demonstrated with real data. Living up to stereotype, the scientists at the University of Southamptonsaved a PDF file inside the glass. And yes, all five of the promised dimensions were used, which include the usual three, plus axis orientation and “birefringence” — a quality of refracted light. Thanks to how the data is stored, the glass “disc” used has a potential capacity of 360 TB, can withstand temperatures of 1,000 degrees Centigrade, and, unlike magnetic or flash media, won’t deteriorate with age. The “Superman memory crystal” — as it’s dubbed — isn’t commercially available just yet, but that team are seeking industry partners to help expedite that process.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/07/glassdiscawjt.jpg