Arthur Slade's Blog – March 2011 Archive (6)

Worldwide eRelease of The Haunting of Drang Island

Cover of Drang



Today is the official re-release of my second novel The Haunting of Drang Island. All three books in the Northern Frights series have been out of print for several years now, so I'm glad to see the second book in the series rise like...uh...like a giant serpent out of the water. It's the story of a teen going on a holiday on Drang Island (near… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on March 31, 2011 at 9:56am — No Comments

Draugr is a 2.99 NookBook


Draugr
is now available on B&N as a Nookbook. Wow, that really cooks like a wookie cooking cookies!
Art

Added by Arthur Slade on March 23, 2011 at 11:30am — No Comments

Interview with Katie Davis about her Brain Burps app!

Today, in my ever-ongoing quest to try and figure out how this whole interweb thing works, I'm going to interview Katie Davis, author/illustrator extraordinaire. She is the author of Who Hops, I Hate To Go To Bed, Kindergarten Rocks, and the middle grade novel The Curse of Addy McMahon. More importantly, she has an app! Brain Burps About… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on March 23, 2011 at 9:45am — No Comments

Shades on iBooks (a poem)

Dear mighty iBooks

Thank you for giving Shades, my book, a look

As an Apple fanboy

This has produced in me

Plenty of joyous joy

Oh, frabjous happiness

Oh, iPadded deliriousness

May the sales be blessed

May the downloads outlast the reign

Of Ozymandias.



Notice how I add that deep literary stuff at the end?



Yep, Shades, my… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on March 16, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

Dungeons and Dragons and why I became a writer...

I blame my grade 4 teacher for turning me into a writer. His name was Mr. Fitzgerald and he came to our small town of Tompkins right out of Education. He was only there a year, but in that year he did two things that changed my life forever. The first was he read The Hobbit to us. That book blew my mind! I was amazed by the dwarves and spiders and, of course, Bilbo himself. Wow, this book didn't have the Hardy Boys in it! It had swords! I remember staring at the cover for… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on March 15, 2011 at 9:28am — No Comments

.99 cent books and the apocalypse (of publishing!)

.99 cent eBooks will destroy publishing!

.99 cent eBooks will save writers!

.99 cent eBooks are the 4th horsemen of the apocalypse!

.99 cent eBooks will save the Toronto Maple Leafs (or fill in your favourite sports team here _______)!

Okay, I don't know which (or if any) of these statements is true. The more I dig into the world of ePublishing the more arguments I hear for and against…

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Added by Arthur Slade on March 14, 2011 at 6:55pm — No Comments

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