Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Okay, so it’s technically been out for a couple of weeks, but this was the first chance I got to say it on this blog. Paris Bombay’s novella is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords! So buy it today!
Jana & Leslie’s Excellent Adventure!
Jana and I had a great time in Florida at the Novelists, Inc. conference last month. We drank, ate, and learned some stuff. We had an awesome view from our Tropical Suite – which, while it did NOT, in fact, come with a toucan, had a toucan motif.
The food was good, the company better – and I took a notebook full of notes. Although I did feel a bit Amish using something as prehistoric as a pen and paper, when everyone else was clicking away on iPads around me. What? I like to doodle.
The speakers came from Penguin (not the bird, to my disappointment), TOR, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, among others. And the authors were smart, funny and not to be patronized – which is nice.
At the same time, in the same hotel, there was a mixed martial arts conference and an herbalist conference. The lobby reeked of testosterone and Patchoulli.
The biggest message was that this is the best time to be a writer. And seeing the post where Gemma says she sold half a million ebooks last year, I think they may be right.
So now that PARADISE is up, I’m going to get to work on another project – a collection of short stories featuring Bombay hits through history. I think that will be fun… almost as much fun as if we’d had a live toucan in our room. Maybe next year…
The Assassin