Creative Vapors

I have been remiss in not posting a link to some of my writing elsewhere. This information is months late, but for those interested in reading about what I have been doing, head on over to Aswelivedbefore.com. If you read there you will have a good idea why things have been so quiet here.

Work progresses on the sequel to The Stuttering Bard of York. The first draft of The Stuttering Mayor of York, has been completed and critiqued by the initial test readership. Soon work will begin on the second draft of The Stuttering Mayor of York.

For a short time The Stuttering Bard of York is available locally in Fat Cat Books at Avenue B Johnson City, New York. If you are in the area you can stroll down there and support your local economy (and a local author!).

Those who have read The Stuttering Bard of York and are wishing for more–good news! I’m working on the sequel, to be titled The Stuttering Mayor of York. Ben and Jess will return for more adventures.

That is the good news. The bad news is that it will be some time before it is completed, and even longer before it is available for reading.

If you have read The Stuttering Bard of York and are looking for something more to read I suggest you head over to Silverwarethief.com, my personal website. That website holds various detritus of mine, including writing that is in turns inane, interesting, and amusing.

For a taste of the humorous, one could start by reading this and then this.

Previously, at the bottom of the main page of this website, there was an option to subscribe via e-mail. If you subscribed you would receive an e-mail whenever a news update was posted–except that feature was never properly implimented. That is to say it was broke and any attempt to subscribe met with failure.

I have fixed that. There is now an option on the left sidebar to subscribe via e-mail to site updates, and it works. If you would like to receive news updates via e-mail please avail yourself of this feature. I’ve also made links to the RSS and Atom feeds more prominent for those who prefer those methods.

This past Wednesday I saw that The Stuttering Bard of York was now available on Google Books. You can read and search the entire book here on Google Books. It took approximately two months from date of submission to Google Books before the novel appeared on the website. I think that is pretty decent turn around.

It took about half as long for the “Search Inside The Book” feature to become active on for The Stuttering Bard of York on Amazon. That is better, but when it first appeared it wasn’t working properly for the book. I don’t know why, but after a week or so it cleared up. You can check it out on Amazon here.

I like the Google Books program better. The author both has more control and access to more information. And you get a share of the advertising revenue, not to mention the links for people to purchase your book.

A reviews page has been added for The Stuttering Bard of York. Now you can see what other people are saying about the story.

I also added an Essays section to the website, where I will be occasionally adding essays. There is one essay, Full Circle, for reading right now.

This week I submitted The Stuttering Bard of York to both Amazon’s Search Inside The Book and Google’s Book Search. So long as there was no problem with my submission, the novel should come up on both services in the next several weeks. I hope this will allow more people to discover my story.

I don’t know which of these services will give me more exposure, but I appreciate the greater choices Google offers. With Amazon you upload (or mail in) the book and that is it. Google gives you options . . . all of them good, and worth commending, but I particularly appreciated being able to allow people to look at all of my book. The more people can read the better, I say.

First little bit of good news is that last week I contacted Bowkers about the error in my ISBN logbook and they sent a prompt reply saying they had fixed the problem. I checked today and my ISBN logbook now shows the correct publisher information. Prompt service is so nice.

Of more interest to my readers, you can now download the complete The Stuttering Bard of York in PDF format. To download a copy to read, go here. Be sure to share it with all your friends!

Also, I am beginning to release The Stuttering Bard of York for reading on this website. You won’t have to download a PDF, you can read it right on the website. I have converted the first chapter, and you can read it online here. I will continue to post updates as I get more chapters online.

Enjoy your reading!