It all comes round again -- The Dubious Hills, Smashwords

[pameladean]

Hey, you guys, my 1994 novel The Dubious Hills, one of the prequels to the new novel Going North is available for pre-order from Smashwords. There will be a Kindle and a trade paperback edition available as well, but we did the Smashwords editions first this time, since people who wanted those formats had to wait around for Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary.

Here's the link:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/617626

With regard to my previous post, many thanks to everyone who expressed an opinion. I went with an option I hadn't altogether considered, originally suggested by sartorias, I think: I just inserted the single word "now" at the end of a sentence.

I really liked bunsen_h's suggestion, even if it may have been tongue-in-cheek, of an academic preface listing all the changes. But where there's only one, I can't be quite that deadpan about it.

Pamela

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I am so glad you are bringing these out again!

[pameladean]

Me too! I wish I were more effective at publicity, but at least they are available.

P.

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

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This is the sort of thing that makes me wonder a very great deal about the people who write the processing software.

I am now looking forward to the 15th!

[pameladean]

Hee!

Very glad to make you look forward to the Ides of March! 8-)

P.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

I've seen that sort of preface any number of times in non-fiction -- sometimes several, when a book has gone through several editions. And I'm pretty sure that I've seen it once or twice in fiction.

[pameladean]

I would be surprised if you hadn't, even though I can't call examples to mind.

If I'd made the decision to do more drastic revisions, a good solid academic preface would have been an excellent addition.

P.

[michawl dolbear (from livejournal.com)]

"will be a Kindle and a trade paperback edition available as well, but we did the Smashwords editions first this time"

Smashwords normally includes a Kindle compatible download so I think you mean "will be a Amazon Kindle Store and a trade paperback edition available as well ..."

And even if not, there is no DRM so converting ePub to Mobi is no problem.

[pameladean]

You are quite right. However, converting actually is a problem for some people. We want to make the books easily available to people who don't want to do anything other than buy their Kindle book from Amazon, as well as people who wouldn't touch Amazon with a bargepole, and everybody in between.

P.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm posting here because I can't figure out how to do that on the blaisdell press page, but my kindle copy of the Dubious Hills is missing a section, probably a sentence or two long, at 'location 2200' in chapter 13. I sent an error message to kindle but I thought you would like to be aware of this.

[pameladean]

Thanks for letting me know. Is it like this: by the normal operations of human th"But our' ? There was an issue with the epub version and I'm wondering if it's the same passage. I hope so.

P.