Comments on: Free Book Alert! Free Book Alert! Free, I said!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:28:39 +0000

I blogged about it too. Michele’s All Night Long, my favourite book of hers, which was out-of-print, is also now available in ebook in her Lulu store. I would have gotten it already but the Lulu store and Versign just had to have technical problems that day. Going to try again later.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:37:01 +0000

Glad to see this even though I have a copy on my keeper shelves. I think she is one of the midlisters that is sadly undervalued. I hope this will help to change that.

By: Jane A.

Jane A. — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:12:35 +0000

Michele & Jane,

Thanks for your responses! I’ll try downloading it again tomorrow and see what happens. It’s really not too bad, just a little smaller font than I prefer. But hey, it’s free and it’s a great book!! I forgot how yummy Julian is!

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:14:39 +0000

I bought both books last fall as well, but I don’t feel bad because I would love to see Albert continue to write.

By: Miki

Miki — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:07:35 +0000

I’m one of the few (apparently) that actually bought this from Moxie Press last year. I didn’t realize they’d gone under. Sigh. I thought it was a wonderful idea to have a legal way to replace my bulging bookshelves with digital copies of well-loved books. And at a reasonable price.

Oh, well. I’m going to have to keep an eye on her blog for the next book. She’s been an auto buy for me since I read “Her Bodyguard” – so it’s nice to be able to get copies of her backlist!

By: Michele

Michele — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:58:46 +0000

Me again, sorry. I posted after Jane did, and if it’s a font problem, I bet that’s a mistake on my end. I converted the original manuscript to RTF, and then to HTML and that embeds the fonts and font sizes. I’ll try removing all the formatting and upload the file again and see if that makes a difference.

By: Michele

Michele — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:40:51 +0000

Thanks for the mention, DA. It was ten years ago that I sold this book, so while I’m experimenting here, it’s also a bit of celebratory thing too. Feedback is very welcome.

BTW, I added a Mobipocket version, despite my intense dislike of Mobipocket Creator. Nothing converts the way it’s supposed to, and no matter what I do it refuses to create a table of contents. Adobe PDF and Palm were a snap to convert, but MS LIT and Mobipocket gave me fits.

Jane A, it could be I messed up something during the LIT conversion. I’m working with a secondary conversion program because my MSWord is too old to use Microsoft’s add-on (something I plan on fixing soon.) I tested the files, but only on my laptop. I don’t have a hand-held reader.

LinM, I don’t share your feelings on series but can understand them. Almost everything I’m reading these days is a series, in and out of the romance genre. Both books I’m reading now — Wen Spencer’s 4th Ukiah Oregon book and Barbara Hambly’s 6th Benjamin January book — are series in limbo, sadly. There’s no chance of that happening with stand-alone books!

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:38:21 +0000

Jane A – I think what I would do is open the html file and copy the entire contents into a Word document and then increase the font. I know that there is a way to increase the font size inside the OPF package but I don’t know how to do it.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:13:19 +0000

Thanks for the head’s up, I’ve downloaded Absolute Trouble. Looks terrific.

By: Kristie(J)

Kristie(J) — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:40:09 +0000

She “got” me as a reader with Absolute Trouble. I read and loved it when it first came out and I’ve been buying her books ever since. I hope this really works and gets her more readers!