One of the reasons
I posted that book meme yesterday was to lay a trap for a certain unpublished author, and it worked perfectly.
Ed Hering has sent me two of his pieces now, one several months ago and another last night, which I stayed up and read through the night.
let me make this clear: I have not read SF extensively in the last – what, ten years? preferring classic fiction over modern, and what modern fiction I do read are mostly murder mysteries, like you eat popcorn.
Ed’s work is good, the science he uses is believable and good, his characters are believable and likeable, and the drama between characters is enjoyable and not strained. He can tell a story, which so damned many supposed storytellers cannot.
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to annoy Ed until he puts outhis books in readable format- Kindle, even, or self-published, but ideally published through a real publisher, because his stuff is that good. Go, minions. Annoy Ed until he shares the wealth.
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I will not pester Mr. Hering for copies of his work. I will strongly suggest that he self-publish his works for Kindle and Nook. And I’ll would buy Nook versions by the way.
Electronic self publishing is real publishing, see Joe Konrath’s blog for proof. Or check out the Amazon sales rank for Amanda Hocking or John Locke.
I would never suggest that Ed give anything away, and I don’t see where the original post suggests it. I want Ed to make money off this, it’s good and it deserves to be seen by a lot of eyes.
Epub will do a lot but I expect it’s better for Ed to get a real publisher or possibly self publish. And having your first book be something you can hold in your hand and sign and give to a friend (hint, hint) is a big psychological boost for an author.
Anything you can read on a nook you can read on a Kindle. I don’t know if the obverse is true. It’s just a file, after all.
Og, I didn’t mean to suggest that you were suggesting Ed give anything away. I also love printed books, but I think the entire physical publishing industry is dying.
I think Ed’s work will see more eyeballs (and money) if he publishes for Kindle and Nook at $2.99 or less.
I’d encourage anyone who is thinking about becoming an author to read the post below.
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/08/same-tired-arguments.html
I’ve read the post; it will probably be true in ten years, but a powerful lot of it is wishful thinking, right now.
At the moment, I can go to any drugstore in north America and buy a paperback book. A powerful lot of them are being printed, and here is the unassailable fact: Many orders of magnitude more real books are being read than e books.
Someday, possibly soon, that will not be the case. For the foreseeable future, though, it is.
Placeholder for indian mail order bride spam.
holy sweet mother of god.
Where did John come from? And why would I want an indian wife when I have a prefectly good one in the kitchen now?
Spent 25 year learning her tricks. Not starting over on a green one now.
Are we talking Sioux, Crow, Apache?? Oh….women from the sub-contenant of India!
“Honey, there’s a fella on Og’s site in the comments pimp….err advertising Indian women for matrimony, can we get one? OUCH! …. never mind.
Damn, Og. Least you could do with the Indian Bride Pimp is to get an evaluation sample to blog about?
Or, they could send a few to the upcoming Gunblogger Rendevouz.
Now, there’s some product evaluations that’d get some hits on the ol’ sitemeter?
/snark
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Uh, we are getting away from the designated task of annoying me until I seek publication.
…not that an indian wife would be unwelcome, but it’s just a bit off-topic.
Said Ed:
“…not that an indian wife would be unwelcome, but it’s just a bit off-topic.”
Well, you might solve that dichotomy by making an mail-order Indian bride some sort of plot device in a subsequent novel?
Just think of the reasearch opportunities!
/doubleplusgoodsnark
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Ed, Jim might just have something there. And Kipling might approve (from the great beyond) as well.
Me, if I wanted a hairy woman who ate food I couldn’t recognize who had hygiene issues I probably would have married a hippie. Just don’t do it for me.
Oh, come on, I’m sure you could find an indian woman who’d shave her pits and take regular baths.
As for the “plot element” thing, I have a story in mind about building a space elevator in the Philippines. Close enough?