First ebooks and now digital!

A lot of readers and writers are waiting for the smoke to clear on the battlefronts of ebook reader affordability and cross-reader format compatability. Whether it's a stall tactic to jump on the ebook trail or real market place concerns, sales of both readers and ebooks are expected to soar higher than ever once those issues work themselves out. Ebook sales are already climbing as print sales drop.

Now it seems the war for the eyes of story lovers has expanded to the digital market place as well. Today's article in the Publishing Perspectives reviews and compares the new Palm competiton to Apple's iphone. http://publishingperspectives.com/?p=1188
Just this week the latest iphone was released and the price of the former best phone dropped to $99.00. Hey, that's getting affordable quick.

So, what's this phone business got to do with reading? Just that digital books are already available for purchase and viewing on iphones, Smartphones, Blackberries and now the Palm. I hear the paper traditionalists groaning already. All this technology is exciting but it in no way expects anyone to give up their paperbacks or hardcovers. Instead it is offering reading to younger generations. It's taking books to where the readers are and THAT's exciting news!

We're in the throes of reading evolution. Digital is new and fresh. How often have concerns been voiced over the lack of youth reading? They are...in their own way, on their own terms. It may not be your preferred way of devouring those books but I say, "Let them read!"

My BIG announcement

My husband and I have opened a new ebook company called Damnation Books. We launch in September 2009 with twenty-five titles and are open for submissions now. You can see the guidelines at http://www.damnationbooks.com/

Damnation books wants dark fiction. Horror, dark fantasy, thrillers, paranormals, science fiction and erotica (in horror, dark fantasy, paranormal and science fiction settings). We want stort stories, novellas and novel length works.

Please check us out. If you're at KillerCon in September, we plan to host a launch party at the convention.

Next stop on the virtual book tour: Pretty Scary

I'm very excited today. Heidi Martinuzzi at Pretty Scary reviewed Death Masks AND my short story Dragonfruit from the Firestorm of Dragons Anthology.

Check them out today at: http://www.pretty-scary.net/

The first prize drawing is tonight so be sure to add your comments to enter.

Death Masks virtual book tour continues

The virtual book tour lets you have a Saturday off. Enjoy the great summertime. Here in California, we're having great weather. Tomorrow we resume the tour over at Pretty Scary www.pretty-scary.net It's an online community for women in the horror genre that's near and dear to my heart. Please check it out.

If you haven't bought your copy of Death Masks yet, here's a couple of links where you can get one.

http://www.eternalpress.ca/deathmasks.html
or at Fictionwise
http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook66570.htm?cache