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Featured Books: Quick Reads
Friday, July 31st, 2009Featured Book: Suggested Oddities
Saturday, May 16th, 2009A Carnival of the strangest freaks, interstellar music critics and magical gibbons are just some of the oddities you’ll meet in this collection of 15 stories inspired by suggestions from members of Mobileread.com.
A collection of short stories by PJ Lyon.
Featured Book: How to Disappear Completely
Monday, January 19th, 2009Sitting at the top of a Ferris wheel overlooking the Boston skyline, Josh’s life takes an unexpected turn, and things will never be the same. Along with the many surprises on his life’s new path, he’ll come to take life advice from a family of ducks, get in a bloody war with a dog, lose his job over a spilled drink, wake up in the hospital, apply to work at an adult-themed novelty bakery, and find out that people often aren’t what they seem. When you’re at the top of the world, there’s nowhere to go but down.
Featured Book: Beasts of New York
Thursday, January 8th, 2009Featured Book: Plug Your Book! Online Book Markething for Authors
Friday, December 26th, 2008Word of mouth is the only thing that can make a book really successful. Until recently, this required “pull”—connections with powerful allies in the publishing food chain. Today, creative writers can connect with readers directly. The only requirements are a link to the Internet and the will to plug in.
- Get massive exposure for your book, no special computer skills needed — trade published or self published, fiction or nonfiction
- Discover why authors fail with paid advertising, pay-per-click, fee-based reviews, and “bestseller” campaigns
- Blog to connect with readers, driving them to Amazon and bookstores
- Boost your visibility with Google, use MySpace for viral marketing
- Ignite word of mouth with Web social networks
- Capitalize on peer content and “amateur” book reviews
Featured Book: The Revelation and a Hundred Other Stories
Sunday, December 14th, 2008
101 innovative stories packed with dark humour. They explore the blur between illusion and reality, the commercialisation life, confused self-identity, tongue-in-cheek remixes of classic tales, surreal takes on life-as-a-computer-game and the writing process itself.
- A man wakes up in a detention camp where inmates are forced to write comedy …
- A visit to a chemist produces life-altering vitamin pills …
- A nobleman makes a shocking discovery when he passes through a sacred portal …
Featured Book: Obnoxious Librarian From Hades
Saturday, December 13th, 2008Featured Books: Beautiful Red
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
The future is boring. Technology has solved most of the world’s most pressing problems, leaving people with tedious work and mundane play.
Jack is a Security Officer Class 5, which sounds important, but isn’t. However, her banal life as a cubicle worker by day and tinkerer by night is interrupted when she discovers that her employer’s computer system has been invaded.
Jack enlists the help of her only friends – her co-worker, Gilles and Adrian, an online friend she’s never met – to help her track down the source of the invasion. Her investigation leads her to a shadowy group called the Red, where Jack learns that not everyone lives a life of quiet servitude.
Even though she believes that the Red are responsible for a series of gruesome attacks, Jack begins to become attracted to their worldview. In her search for the people responsible for the attacks, she confronts the leaders of the group as well as her own burgeoning sense of self-awareness.
“Mars Girl is reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut’s early satire … [It's] a bizarre, satirical romp that offers a glimpse into the media and politics of a future that is probably nearer than most would like to admit.” -City Pulse, Lansing, Michigan
Featured Book: Stories in Between
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008stories in between: narratives and mediums @ play is a unique text exploring the interplay between stories and media. The discussion focuses around the Myst narrative as it moves across media from games to books to comics to games. Along the way, the text also discusses the Sandman comics, and the hypermedia of Ultima Online and MitterNachtSpiel. This text was created hypertextually to exist online as a website with an inter-related book. Also, it has been released under a under a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/. Readers are encouraged to share and create work based on this text. The website can be viewed at: http://www.etc.cmu.edu/etcpress/



