By JA Marlow, on December 16th, 2011 With ebooks we run into one very big difficulty: reader understanding how long or short a story is.
Some retailers understand this dilemma. On Omnilit and All Romance eBooks, there is a field in which to put the the word count of the work. Smashwords estimates the word count of the entire ebook when it [...]
By JA Marlow, on December 9th, 2011 Amazon has announced a special ebook lending library for Prime subscribers. In the past several days they have sent emails out to the authors and publishers who use their KDP platform inviting them to join.
“We’re excited to introduce KDP Select – a new option dedicated to KDP authors and publishers worldwide, featuring a fund [...]
By JA Marlow, on November 22nd, 2011 The science fiction and fantasy world was lost something wonderful. Anne McCaffrey, the author who brought us the Pern, Rowen, Crystal Singer, and so many other series and stories has passed away. Anne was a wonderful writer who inspired me as a teen for her wonderful worlds, character development, fight sequences (learned SO much), and [...]
By JA Marlow, on September 2nd, 2011 Ah, August. Heat-wave, sick, and add on top of it the traditional book-publishing summer slump.
I went into August figuring that any sales would be a wonderful surprise. Don’t expect anything. Just be happy with anything you get.
And I was very surprised.
July is technically a part of the publishing summer slump, but for [...]
By JA Marlow, on August 25th, 2011 There are a lot of ebook formats out there. Epub, Mobi, Lrf, and so on. Epub and Mobi are the big ones, backed by Barnes & Noble and Amazon respectively. Not all of them can stand forever.
And now one has fallen. Yes, this reminds me of the VHS/Betamax, Blue-Ray/HD DVD wars.
The .Lit format was [...]
By JA Marlow, on July 4th, 2011 There are many thoughts and emotions surrounding the changes in the publishing business.
One of them is despair.
It’s a feeling that is rising among those writing for the big publishing companies. Looking around and finding the ample opportunities they once had gone. Finding themselves dropped. Told they don’t write as well as they once [...]
By JA Marlow, on May 29th, 2011 First, the day has gone well. I’ve worked on several small things through the day, and the result is that my to-do list has drastically dwindled. Which means I can dive into revision tomorrow without anything weighing on me. Yay!
Now on to not so nice news.
New clauses are showing up in big publishing [...]
By JA Marlow, on May 24th, 2011 Day 24 Wordcount: 201 (Mop Jockies and Fighter Pilots, Short Story #9)
It took a while for an idea to come to me tonight. I think the problem was two-fold. 1. I’m still catching up on sleep and I would rather nap. 2. After 8 short stories and novelettes, the head wants to work on longer [...]
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J.A. Marlow Science fiction writer who loves great plots, interesting characters, exotic locales accompanied by a sense of wonder with an optimistic ending.
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Available Ebook Formats The works of J.A. Marlow are available in a wide number of formats including DRM-Free. Below is a list of the primary retailers the various formats can be found at, but do not include Kobo, Sony, Diesel, Drive Thru Scifi, and others.
Mobi (Kindle compatible): Amazon, Omnilit/All Romance Ebooks, Smashwords, Xinxii
Epub (Nook compatible): Barnes & Noble, Omnilit/All Romance Ebooks, Smashwords, Xinxii, iBookstore
PDF: Omnilit/All Romance Ebooks, Smashwords, Xinxii
Palm DOC/iSolo (Palm compatible): Omnilit/All Romance Ebooks, Smashwords
RTF (Rich Text Format): Smashwords
LRF (Older Sony Reader format): Smashwords
Plain Text: Smashwords
Online Reading (HTML): Smashwords
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