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donna-gillespie's picture
Jun.26.2012
And so at last the freshly scanned copy of my first novel was buffed and polished and — or so I thought — all ready to be electroni-cized.  It was time to find the right conversion guy. I knew I would need separate files for Kindle and Nook, but other than that I knew very little....
donna-gillespie's picture
Jun.13.2012
  When my first novel (The Light Bearer, Berkley/Putnam 1994) was teetering at the edge of the out-of-print abyss and my publisher didn’t seem interested in putting it out as an e-book, I realized that if I wanted to save my first-born child it was time to strike out on my own.  I’d read...
thomas-burchfield's picture
Feb.09.2011
Another version of this piece--with attractive, eerie photo, can be see at my web page A Curious Man.   In Hollywood and Big Publishing, it often happens like this: The announcement goes out that the release of Young and Hirsute: The Profound and Epic Life of Justin Bieber (or whatever that...