I chose to go digital because it takes less time to get your work out there, the books are usually reasonably priced, and they’re more convenient. I still read print from time to time but I would be lost without my Kindle. I love that you can enlarge the print and I especially like the text to speech option. It comes in very handy with I’m going through edits.
I’ve had some wonderful experiences with the smaller electronic publishing houses. When I first started submitting my work I landed seven different publishers. I’ve since narrowed it down to three I feel are a good fit. What most impresses me about these publishers is the communication, the fact they don’t try to change your voice or ask you to follow a certain formula. There is editing of course, sometimes lots of it, but support from the publisher and in-house authors is fantastic.
Giveaway: 1 lucky winner will get a digital copy (pdf) of Kill Shot. Leave a comment along with your email address on this post no later than 7:00pm on June 12th to enter to win.
Kill Shot Blurb:
Former combat medic Kory Wagner has survived four war zones. Now she’s home and out of the Army for good and someone is trying to kill her in her own backyard. Just as disturbing is the handsome sheriff who’s on the case.
Sheriff Sean Harding doesn’t quite know what to think of the decorated veteran that managed to outsmart an entire search party. What bothers him more is the body of a PI, whom she hired to find her sister’s killer, was found dead in a building Kory owns. And Kory isn’t being very cooperative with helping him find the answers as to why someone would kill her sister and want her dead. Will he be able to keep her alive along enough to discover the truth?
Excerpt
The steel door creaked as she pushed it open, the sound echoing throughout the metal building. “Mr. Urlik?” She waited for her eyes to adjust to the change in lighting before stepping all the way inside. A wide stream of light from the door spread out in front of her. “Mr. Urlik. Are you in here?”Kory heard a sound a few yards in front of her. She quickly scanned the area. Three rows of huge metal shelves lined the interior. She inched forward, peering around the corner of the second row. Mr. Urlik lay on his side, facing her, clutching his chest. His eyes were opened and his mouth moved, but no sound came out. A heart attack? She ran to him, knelt down on the cement floor, and took his hand. It was wet, slimy. She looked down and saw his hand covered in blood. Her eyes shifted to his chest. A large crimson stain spread across the width of his white shirt from a small hole near the center. He was breathing erratically. Experience told her a bullet had pierced at least one lung and he didn’t have much time. She immediately pressed the heel of her right hand against the wound.“I’m sorry,” he murmured.“Where’s your cell phone?” Hers was in her backpack but she didn’t want to waste valuable time digging it out.“No time. Get out.”“Who did this, Mr. Urlik?”He grabbed her right hand and squeezed it tightly. “You were right — no accident.”His hand went limp.Kory felt something in the palm of her hand, looked down and saw it was a key. She shoved it into her jeans pocket. A whizzing sound buzzed past her, followed by the unmistakable clink of a bullet ricocheting off metal. She instinctively threw herself over his body as another bullet struck metal. Kory felt for a pulse. There was none. She lowered her hand to his chest and felt under both arms and along his waist. I thought all PIs carried guns. Just my luck this one didn’t.She scrambled to her feet, as more shots ricocheted around her, and dove through an opening on the first row of shelves. A piercing pain sliced through her upper arm as she took cover behind some boxes. They wouldn’t shield her from the gunfire but they would conceal her presence while she figured out how she was going to get out of there. She paused long enough to grab her cell phone from her backpack, wishing she hadn’t when another bullet tore through a box beside her. She ducked lower to the floor.Kory ignored the throbbing in her arm and slithered along the floor toward the back of the building. As a child, she and her sister, Callie, had often accompanied her grandfather to the warehouse where he worked on boats as a hobby. She remembered a back exit that led to the side parking lot and nearby woods. If she could reach the door, she had a chance of getting out of this alive. She looked down at the tear in her shirt, drenched with blood.This isn’t good!
Kill Shot can be purchased at most online bookstores or from my publisher – Desert Breeze Publishing: http://stores.desertbreezepublishing.com/-strse-227/Wounded-Heros-Book-One/Detail.bok
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I love all your reasons for going digital. I love the convenience, I love the prices, and I love the text to speech options.
Thanks so much for being on Tracy's Place, Anne – AND for participating in DFRAT!
I think the digital industry has a long way to go. I love digital reading but sometimes the pricing is crazy and the limit of one type of reader for a book is annoying. Thanks for the giveaway! jepebATverizonDOTnet
I would be lost without my Kindle too, Anne. Would love to win your book.
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I bought a Nook because one of my authors was publishing a book in a series, only in ebook format. So, I took the plunge. Since then, after some minor adjustments, and the painful charging of the battery at inconvenient moments, I'm really loving it. Buying more ebooks, and getting free ones. In fact, I'm reading a free one now! It's a prequel, which I see as a wonderful way for an author to get their stuff out there. Interesting times ahead for readers and authors.
I love the convenience of ebooks and that you can increase the font. I read more now than I ever have. Thanks for the giveway.
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I can't imagine life without my nook! Just wish it had a longer battery life 🙂
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Sounds like an interesting book, can't wait to read it. Thanks for sharing!!
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