WotC for the Taking

A heads-up on something I mentioned in comments last Sunday: for the benefit of those who are participating in Camp NaNoWriMo (and anyone who wants to read it) I've posted Way of the Cheetah, my how-to writing guide, on Google Docs. It's free for anyone to read online, download, print out and share until the end of April.

To get your copy, click here.

WotC on Scribd

My how-to writing guide, Way of the Cheetah, is now available for purchase at Scribd.com's store. Since I'm doing this mainly as an experiment to see how this process and Scribd's service works, I've discounted the e-book to sell for $1.00 U.S. Note 9/3/10: Since Scribd.com instituted an access fee scam to charge people for downloading e-books, including those I have provided for free for the last ten years, I no longer recommend using their service. See my post about this scam here.

People have asked me when I'm going to start selling my fiction work this way, and the truth is that I have mixed feelings about authors who are using online services like Scribd's store to sell their work directly to readers. While this can help supplement the author's income, I think it can also create conflicts of interest. My primary market is still print, and while the major publishers are having ongoing problems embracing the E-future, I still have hope they'll catch up with the internet and see the wonderful opportunities electronic format offers.

Anyway -- if you'd like to get the book at a drastically reduced price, I plan to leave it up for sale on Scribd.com through January 1, 2010.

From PBW

Tom here, with a note from Lynn:

Folks, we're still working to get the blog back online. Archives may or may not be accessible, but I have them all backed up, so if they disappear don't worry -- we'll recover them. Due to technical difficulties, Reader Wednesday and Friday 20 for this week are cancelled.

A couple of announcements:

This week through Saturday, June 16th, Shop.HollyLisle.com is having a 10% off sale on everything, including Holly Lisle's wonderful series of books on how to create a plot, character, language and culture, as well as my own how-to book Way of the Cheetah. Stop by if you have a chance and check out the available titles.

The second book in the Raintree trilogy is out -- Raintree: Haunted by Linda Winstead Jones hit the shelves this month -- and is selling out fast. I know Silhouette titles only stick around for a month before they're replaced by new ones, but this one has vanished from the stores like hotcakes. Once we get the blog back online, I will be giving away what copies I was able to grab before they sold out in my area.

Hope to be back to talk to you soon -- PBW