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In other book news
Oct. 3rd, 2009 10:06 pm- My coworker Sumana Harihareswara wrote an excellent review of Not Ordinarily Borrowable.
- I made a new site for the book.
Your regular dose of book rambling
Oct. 1st, 2009 10:45 pm- I had a couple of people ask about amazon.co.uk. CreateSpace doesn't allow you to publish on amazon.co.uk. Someone said it was more of a British-style children's book than an American-style one, so this is a particular shame if that's true. However, I believe Lulu do allow you to publish on amazon.co.uk, so I could either print exactly the same edition (or a new edition which only fixed the couple of typos that exist) on Lulu, or just wait until I was going to bring out a second edition with new stuff anyway and use Lulu then. What do you folk think?
- If you're on Twitter, consider linking to the book's page for a chance for a signed copy.
- If you're on Goodreads, there is a trivia quiz.
- We sold more copies today than in all the days before put together. Flash in the pan? Time will tell.
- You can read more chapters of the book on Google Books.
A small milestone
Oct. 1st, 2009 01:34 pmJust thought I'd let you know that:
- Not Ordinarily Borrowable is now the
25th best selling bookin the Arthurian children's books category on Amazon. A small milestone, but a milestone! ETA: Okay, now it's the 5th best, above T.H.White, Susan Cooper, and Roger Lancelyn Green. That's quite amazing and strange. - Also, Amazon have turned on "Look Inside" for the book, so you can read the first few pages (although you can already read the whole first chapter on the website anyway).
- And Lisa A. Maddock, author of A Tale of Two Guinea-Pigs, gave Not Ordinarily Borrowable a rather wonderful review, which made me very happy.
"Not Ordinarily Borrowable" on Facebook
Sep. 28th, 2009 09:46 amLast night I found that Katie had created a fan page on Facebook about my stories! me, apparently. :)
(The name "Not Ordinarily Borrowable" comes from the message the UL catalogue used to give when you tried to check out a storybook. I note that it now simply says "not borrowable".)
(The name "Not Ordinarily Borrowable" comes from the message the UL catalogue used to give when you tried to check out a storybook. I note that it now simply says "not borrowable".)
Do any of you have experience with Kindle books? Amazon said I could put "Not Ordinarily Borrowable" on the Kindle, so I did; I don't know what to charge, though. Do people usually pay the cover price for the printed book, or some standard fraction of it, or what?
Dragons and hawks
Sep. 26th, 2009 10:08 pmA few things which have happened recently:
- Katie arrived to spend some time here with us. It's wonderful having her here again.
- I've been spending some time preparing a discussion of CSS window border theming which I'm hoping to run at the Boston summit.
- I posted a screencast of robotfindskitten on the N900.
- We went to Hawk Mountain today with Amy and John.
- When we were there, I gave Amy her birthday present, which was a book I wrote for her. It's the story of a scholar whose studies are interrupted when her library books are stolen by a dragon. You can read the first chapter here, if you like.
