Darlene's Digest

I know many of you are Nook users, and I'm a B&N fan myself.  However, they're not always as fast off the mark as some other sites to get my books out for sale.  So, if you're anxious to purchase Castaway Dreams , and I know you are, remember that you can load ePub and PDF files onto your Nook reader.  Those are discounted at this site  and are also available at All Romance eBooks .

I checked the other day on Kindle editions of my books in the UK, and was pleased to see them all available.  It seems like each week we're moving faster into the 21st century of publishing.  I don't know where it will end, if it ever does, but having more people able to easily  access my books around the world is a good thing for readers, and for me. I love to get fan email from far away.  Knowing someone in Brazil or Germany is reading my books is exciting, and something that wouldn't have likely happened just a decade ago.  We live in fascinating times.

The Bride and the Buccaneer ebook now available! Just in time for the holidays, The Bride and the Buccaneer is now available in a variety of digital formats from Amber Quill Press, and it's on sale! Can't beat that with a stick! You can read an excerpt at my website, but here's the teaser: A beautiful thief... A bold privateer... Two enemies united by a love for gold may find an event greater treasure in The Bride and the Buccaneer Soon there will be print and Kindle editions as well. Watch this space!

Image via Wikipedia Good News Today I learned Kindle editions of my books will soon be available to more non-US consumers, which makes me happy. I've always felt one of the advantages of being published in ebook format was the ability to make more writers (like me) available to international audiences. I also learned that Barnes & Noble is now carrying Darlene Marshall's ebooks, which is also good news. The timing is excellent since The Bride and the Buccaneer will be coming out at the end of the year. Related articles by Zemanta Amazon slashes Kindle price, launches international version (dailyfinance.com)

Image by juhansonin via Flickr I had one of those "down the rabbit hole" moments this evening. I went online to buy the ebook edition of Jocelynn Drake's Dawnbreaker (I'm enjoying her Dark Days urban fantasy series, check it out). Anyway, I saw the mass market paperback in the store today, retailing for $7.99. I went to buy the ebook edition, and it was retailing for $14.99. I absolutely, positively do not understand why a publisher thinks I'm going to pay twice as much for a digital edition that costs less to produce, and lacks color cover art, as well as having limited portability--I can only read it on my ereader, not save it for 20 years on my bookshelf or loan it to a friend. For me, the whole idea of ebooks is that they should cost less to encourage the use of ereaders and save wear and tear on the environment. This isn't the first time I've seen this happen. There's a discussion going on right now at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books about th...

Image by Getty Images via Daylife I bought a dedicated ereader last week, the Sony Pocket 300 (the one in the illustration isn't mine, but I do have the passionate purple model). So far it's working as promised--a bare bones, small, lightweight device that reads ebooks and related files. I'm liking it. It won't replace print books altogether in my house, but I do feel better about buying books I know I'm not going to keep. No trees are killed to produce ebooks, and with as many books as I buy each month that's a green move I can support. It doesn't read every single format but it reads enough of them that I've only found two works on my computer--one is a novella--in non-Pocket formats. Some of the reasons I went with the ebook reader now: 1. the price was right, under $200. 2. I'm reading more ebooks 3. some authors are producing only e-works, such as novellas or short stories you can't find in print. 4. With luggage restrictions I'd ra...