Skin Deep: ebook available worldwide

A few friends who don't live in Australia have asked where they can get a copy of Skin Deep. At the moment it's available in print in Australia, and ebook globally.

Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/skin-deep-91

Apple’s iBookstore: https://itun.es/au/nb0j8.l

Amazon.com.au: http://www.amazon.com.au/Skin-Deep-Harry-Hendrick-Book-ebook/dp/B00ZZ2DLWW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1435882674&sr=8-1&keywords=skin+deep+gary+kemble 

Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Skin-Deep-Harry-Hendrick-Book-ebook/dp/B00ZZ2DLWW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1435931495&sr=8-1&keywords=skin+deep+gary+kemble

Amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Skin-Deep-Harry-Hendrick-Book-ebook/dp/B00ZZ2DLWW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1435931495&sr=8-1&keywords=skin+deep+gary+kemble

If you pick it up as an ebook and you enjoy it, it would be awesome if you could leave a short review. Good ratings will help Skin Deep rise higher in searches etc.

Of course, if you are in Australia and you buy the paper version, a review on Goodreads (or anywhere really!) would be fantastic.

Thank you! 

Macabre: out now on ebook

Just in time for Halloween, the award-winning Macabre is out now in ebook format!

Macabre: A Journey Through Australia's Darkest Fears features a whopping 205,000 words of Aussie horror -- the classics (Henry Lawson, Marcus Clarke), the modern masters (Terry Dowling, Kaaron Warren), and some of the nicest people I know (Stephen M Irwin, Shane Jiraiya Cummings and the rest of you... you know who you are!).

Oh, and if that's not enough for you, my short story about the dark heart of journalism 'Feast or Famine' is in there too.

When I first held Macabre in my hot little hands at WorldCon last year, I remember thinking, 'This is awesome. This is massive. What's the shipping cost going to be on this thing?' So it's awesome that it's now being offered as an ebook, so that this weighty tome can be offered without the weight.

It's currently available at Smashwords and Amazon, and will be available elsewhere before Halloween.

And, if you still decide you want the brick, I'm told POD versions will be coming soon.

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The Grand Conversation on ebooks

This is a really interesting time for the publishing industry, and it will be really interesting to see how Shane’s ebook experiment goes.

For mine, I don’t read ebooks. Even though I love technology and my work revolves around computers and social media, I’m not an early adopter. At the moment, an iPad or a Kindle would be nice (or even an iPhone), but I still have some concerns about the whole ebook thing.

via jiraiya.com.au

Shane kindly invited me to take part in his grand conversation on ebooks...

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The future of short stories

Some notes from today's session with Cory Doctorow and Stephen Dedman.

Cory Doctorow says there hasn't been a big market for short stories for a very long time.

He says short fiction seems like a good length for the web, but the fact that computers do a whole heap of stuff means that people find it hard to concentrate on fiction if they're reading it on a connected device. However, he says that the advantage is that on the web, stories have an opportunity to find an audience they never had before.

Stephen Dedman says the nature of the web means that stories can be the length they're meant to be, rather than trying to shoehorn them into magazines where generally they have to be shorter.

Doctorow says the commercial value increases with the notoriety of the piece of fiction. And he says he can see opportunities for the marketing of physical extrusions of digital works.

He uses the example of the original scroll of paper that Jack Kerouac typed On the Road on. It's worth heaps. Not because you can't get cheap versions of the work, but because the work has such notoriety.

He says he's currently working on an anthology of reprints of his stories. There will be free ebooks, audio readings by his writer friends, POD versions via lulu.com, and a high-end hand-bound version featuring end papers of ephemera he's collected over the years, such as Jay Lake's cancer diagnosis.

He's also got a system whereby if you spot a typo, he'll correct it in the next version and credit you in the footnote. So if you want to buy it again, you can get a version with your name in it. He says he's found a way to monetise typos!

Doctorow says there have been some other interesting experiments. He says podcasting has potential, because people connect more when they hear a voice, and also it fits in with commuting, looking after kids (and I guess going to the gym).

He mentioned EscapePOD, and Stephen Dedman mentioned PseudoPOD.

Doctorow also mentioned Mongoliad, a web serial that features a blend of stuff, some free, some paid for.

Actually, AussieCon 4 has really amped me as far as short stories go, but I've got to stay focussed on my novel!

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Interview with Cory Doctorow

  
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Unedited audio of my interview with Cory Doctorow, which will feed into my article for ABC News Online.

He talks about DRM, emerging business models, tips for authors, and much more.

(There's also a screaming kid about halfway through -- the joys of lobby interviews! :))

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Audio: ebooks and the publishing industry panel

  
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Here's some audio of this morning's 'Did the future just arrive? The ebook and the publishing industry' panel, featuring Cory Doctorow, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Kate Eltham and Alisa Krasnostein.

(My visit to AussieCon 4 has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government, via Arts Queensland)

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Untitled

Unedited audio from my ebooks interview with Tim Holman, publisher with Orbit in the US and the UK.

  
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Charlie Stross on ebooks

If you're interested in ebooks, you should hear what Charlie Stross has to say about them. He's been reading ebooks since the late 90s!

(Note: I know that's very vague. Ideally I'd put some dot points of the key areas covered. I'm writing an article for ABC News Online but I thought in the meantime people might like to have a listen)

  
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Interview with Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  
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Ahead of the ebooks panel discussion at AussieCon 4 on Saturday (1300, P3) I had a quick chat with Patrick Nielsen Hayden. I'm writing an article for ABC News Online but, in the meantime, here's (most of) the audio.

This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

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