Cover Art! And A Release Date!

[dr_pretentious]

Closing Arguments will be coming out as an e-book on May 5th. Now that it's an event with an actual date attached, it's starting to feel much more real. We still need to arrange for blurbs, send copies to reviewers, and...oh dear, I finally need to turn all that stuff I took notes about at all those How To Promote Your Book panels into some kind of coherent game plan.

Don't mind me, I'm just hyperventilating.

Okay, much better now.

Meanwhile, I have my beautiful cover art to look at. One of the things that drew me to Drollerie Press in the first place was the consistently high quality of their cover art. I'm delighted to be sending my story out into the world wearing this image.

Comments

Re: Outstanding!!!

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

I haven't played with e-book technology much yet, either, but so many people have asked how to buy and read my book, I'm going to have to get much better informed.

The short answer for people who only want to dip a toe into the e-book pool, as far as I've figured it out, is that you'll be able to buy Closing Arguments directly from Drollerie Press (http://www.drolleriepress.com/) as an Adobe PDF. From looking at the format listings on Fictionwise (http://www.fictionwise.com/home.html), which seems to be the biggest of the e-book retailers, I get the impression that the PDF format has the print option disabled, in which case you'd have to read it on your computer screen.

A long answer about e-books in general might start with the Fictionwise FAQ collection (http://www.fictionwise.com/help/help.htm), but I haven't digested it all yet. I'm going to register and then play around with downloading free e-books, in hopes of developing a clue. (Of course, there's no guarantee that Fictionwise will decide to offer my e-book, but I think that's where clue is to be found.)

I'll post more about this closer to the release date.

Re: Outstanding!!!

[serasempre.livejournal.com]

Your book will be up on Fictionwise in all the formats they offer. It will also be available from the DP bookshop, and the PDF will be printable. It should even be available on Amazon for the Kindle.

Re: Outstanding!!!

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

A clue! Thank you. I needed one. I'd been meaning to ask about that stuff, but I wanted to hold off until Friday.

I hope your appearance here means you're feeling better.