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Science Fiction & Fantasy author

E-books

Smashwords Read an E-Book Week is in full swing

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Read an E-Book Week

I love Read an E-book Week at Smashwords, and as of March 2 thru March 8 it has begun.  I along with a huge number of other writers make use of this opportunity to invite readers to check out our books.

Take a look and find a new author to enjoy and follow.

So if you like time travel novels, short stories or are interested in a text about narrative frameworks for fiction novels and shorts stories, you’ll find my books set at 25% off with coupon REW25.

Follow this link to Smashwords promotion page to check out the catalog on the enrolled books:  Smashwords Read an E-Book Week

 

I was inteviewed by Indie Author Land!

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This is a big share post.  Indie Author Land posted their interview with me about the second book in my Students of Jump series.  In Times Passed and No-Time Like the Present are both available at Smashwords.com under all the major formats and Amazon.com as well as other major e-book outlets.

See my interview at Indie Author Land today.

I found a hole in my publishing activities

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I knew Smashwords covered all the main bases in distributing to e-book sellers, but I overlooked the Amazon portion of that distribution net.  Apparently, my books were not available at Amazon.

Three years ago when I was looking into e-book publishing, I checked out Barnes & Noble and Amazon.  Through my research I kept seeing posts about Smashwords, so I finally followed their trail and did more research.  I created accounts at all three as I worked out my decision for which one I wanted to use.  Two accounts remained dormant as I made my final decision and published with Smashwords.  I still feel I made the right decision.

But recently, finding that hole forced me to do some more thinking about this.  Smashwords offers the option of closing out a distribution route, so I closed Smashwords distribution to Amazon since I did not meet the eligibility requirements to get on the list and went direct to Amazon and published all four of my books this past week.  Hole closed.

Moral of story: (is not women are entitled to change their  minds) Stay aware of the process you are working and adjust as needed.  I am still with Smashwords, but I am with Amazon, too.

Students of Jump, Book 1:  In Times Passed
Smashwords http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/77866
Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E6HEQ1C


Students of Jump, Book 2:  No-Time like the Present
Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/338367
Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E6XLFF6

Gardens in the Cracks & Other Stories
Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/177065
Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E6VKC0W


The Little Handbook of Narrative Frameworks
Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/331101
Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E7G44NM

I dare you to find me.

Since I own a Sony ereader, I largely go to Sony for my e-books.  Sony also has my books through Smashwords.  Where do you look the most for ebooks, and where do you buy them from (could be different places)? 

Book 2 of the Students of Jump just went live on Smashwords

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No-Time like the Present is published on Smashwords as of just a few minutes ago.  It has been a busy month pulling the last bits together, editing copy and preparing the cover.  I had the best help from fellow author Marcy Peska, who as my beta reader provided advice I could not have managed without.  Check out her books at Amazon.com.

My daughter helped me put the cover together.  It would not be the beauty it is without her eye for detail and design.

Look for the second book in the Student of Jump series at Amazon, Barnes & Nobel and other booksellers in the next week or two.  For the remainder of July, the book will be available for 50% off at Smashwords.  Use coupon SSW50.  This coupon will work with all four of my books until the end of July.

News: In Times Passed is back at Smashwords

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Back in September I took my first novel in the Students of Jump series out of publication to make some additions to the text and finish some small cleanup. Life was very busy: teaching always keeps my personal life on hold from September to May each year. But I still managed to complete the draft on the second book in the series, No-time Like the Present and worked on In Times Passed to get it back into circulation.

Which brings me to now.  I uploaded the updated version last week and have waited until now to announce it because I wished to wait till the book was reviewed and placed in the Premium Catalog which will make it available at other e-book sellers.

Summer is coming; I feel it flutter behind my heart, which means I will be writing again.  I can now prepare the second book for upload which should occur by July 2013 and begin the redraft of book 3, Time on my Hands.

L. Darby Gibbs’s Smashwords Author Profile: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/LDGibbs

See my book page to sample or purchase In Times Passed: http://smashwords.com/b/77866

Or see my book page to sample or purchase my anthology Gardens in the Cracks & Other Stories: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/177065