We interrupt this Renovations Update to bring you*:

[lagilman]

DRAGON VIRUS: a tragedy in six evolutions / an evolution in six tragedies

(now available for pre-order from Fairwood Press)

This is what I'm calling a linked-story novella, although it can also be read as a collection, depending on how you approach it.  Some of the stories were previously published, some are all-new, and all have been reworked to, together, tell the story of The Change....  Is it really a tragedy?   That, m'dears, is for the readers to decide....







*[pending tweaks, changes and some text modifications]

Comments

[llwheeler.livejournal.com]

What a gorgeous cover! Another thing added to the list of Stuff to Buy... 544444444444444 (ack! that is perhaps my cat's suggestion of how many copies to buy? all to benefit your cats, I'm sure.)

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Awesome cover--congratulations!

One note: The publisher is Fairwood Press, singular.

[lagilman]

hey, the fact that I posted this pre-caffeine means it's amazing anything was spelled right at all! (fixed, thanks)

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

We love you both pre- and post-caffeine, have no fear. :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Yay: congratulations.

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

Ordered! Really looking forward to reading this. 8)

And I concur with the others, that's a great cover!

[lagilman]

Yeah -- I basically said "I want red. And something to echo the origin of the title." And Patrick knocked it out of the park.

[lagilman]

Every penny goes to their Petromalt fund.

[jmward14.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! There's nothing quite like a new release, especially one that's so shiny. And red. Very, very red. :-) Three cheers.

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

Kindle? Soon?

[lagilman]

e-version after the limited small press edition has had its run (and I've had a chance to finagle the tech, since I kept those rights myself). Limited editions are a special beast.

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

Good. I want to buy everything I can get my hands on and put it on my Kindle. If they come out with a Kindle with a color screen, I might have to have two---one just for print books, the second for all the luscious art and sci fi books I dream of having in my (electronic) possession.

Sigh. If I were queen of the world.....I have this book called The Orient in Western Art and you would not believe....Oh, crap, I'm rambling again, aren't I? Sorry.

I hope more authors get into e-marketing their work. Cut out the middle man and I'm more than happy to shower money on writers more directly. Sorry. Shutting up now.

[lagilman]

I hope more authors get into e-marketing their work. Cut out the middle man and I'm more than happy to shower money on writers more directly.

The trick is, making sure you still have a good editor to keep you from releasing work that's Not As Good As It Should Be out into the wild. Self-publishing has its pitfalls...

The small press/e-format combo is a good one for a lot of projects like this - it gives collectors and tactile people[tm] an object to caress, er, hold, and allows the editor/publisher to recoup some of their time/money on sales, and then hands over the longer term e-sales directly to the writer and their tech of choice. It's not the answer for everything, but I'm quite pleased with it, here.

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the big thing. I'd like to see more authors being able to make a nice living and write more! What a concept. With my devotion to tiny things, though, I find that the more books I have on my Kindle the more I like it, particulalry since the idea of hauling around three thousand books with no more effort than it would take to pick up just one paperback never ceases to amaze me. There are some lovely print editions that I want and cherish, but that just means one's shelves are liberated from stuff that one doesn't need in the physical form. There is something so very very comforting and wonderful about being able to carry around a huge number of wonderful books and read them whenever one wants to. OMG. I mean, one could dream of the print editions that publishers could do in an ideal world....A while back a publisher issued some romance novels in the most enchanting format---a hardcover the size of a paperback. It was such a wonderful format that I bought it, because my hands just found the weight and heft and feel of it so impossibly attractive.

Okay I 'm not sure if it's too much caffeine or not enough, but I need a muzzle of some sort.