Post-Christmas Kindle eBook sale

For those of you getting new ebook readers for Christmas (and those of you whoish they had!) if you have a Kindle or a reader with a Kindle app/reader software–this sale is for YOU!

Watch out for select titles from Logical-Lust/LL-Publications to be on sale for $.99 for a limited time!

Once again, this is good for Kindle owners or people with devices that have the Kindle app/reader software!

Call for Submissions: SPANK!

***Permission to Forward is Granted***

Spank!

Be part of a spanking good read!

Edited by D. L. King
To be published by Logical Lust late summer or early fall 2010
Deadline: January 15, 2010
Payment: $25 and a copy of the book in available electronic formats, plus a copy of the print edition, if the book does well enough to go into print.

D. L. King is looking for hot spanking stories.

Sometimes all you need to get hot and bothered is a good bottom warming… Whether getting or giving is your passion, this book is designed to create the same blush on your face as the one found on your bottom after a few good, hard whacks.

What makes for a sexy spanking story? Short, plaid, Catholic schoolgirl skirts? Bent at the waist, a bare bottom with the boxers and pants down around his knees? A stern schoolmarm, or head master, standing in front of a blackboard, holding a rattan cane? A dungeon wall covered with all sorts of paddles, floggers and canes? A scolding? A punishment? A pert bottom settling over charcoal gabardine trousers? A ritualized display of dominance? The crack of a hand coming down on already heated flesh? Send me something guaranteed to make naughty girls and bad boys, the world over, squirm in their seats when they read this book!

I envision this anthology as being primarily heterosexual, but I’ll happily consider GLBT stories, as well. Remember, no underage characters, please. Stories should be between 2,500 and 5,000 words, double-spaced, 12 pt Times New Roman or Courier New. Please indent the first line of each paragraph one-half inch and do not include extra lines between paragraphs. Please make sure your document contains no other pre-set formatting.

Send your story as a .doc (not .docx) attachment and include the title, pseudonym (if applicable) and your legal name and mailing address to spankantho@gmail.com. (If you are unable to send a Word attachment, I will accept an RTF.) Subject line should read: Submission: [TITLE] Please include, as a second attachment, a 50 to 75-word bio, along with ways you might help promote the book should your story be accepted for publication. Direct any questions to the same address. Original stories only. You must own all rights to any reprints.

 

Jim Brown

Logical-Lust Publications

You can still enter the EPIC 2010 ebook competition!

EPIC - home of the premier ebook awards competition

We’re pushing the EPIC contest hard in the last few days of the entry period. Because we brought the contest forward to a new time in the calendar, this year is a foreshortened year and entries aren’t quite as high as previously. Entries are healthy, but to keep momentum going we’d like as many late entries as possible!

I’m looking for a favour from you all and asking if you can forward this to all your groups, loops, and anyone you think might find it interesting! Also consider entering yourself!

Please copy and forward to all!

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EPIC’s premier eBook competition needs YOU!

How you may ask? Let me tell you how…there are a few ways you can help this wonderful ebook contest out.

First, this contest is in need of entries. Last year you knew the contest as the EPPIEs but with the ever changing field of ebook publishing, EPIC has decided to revamp the contest and rename it more in line with what it has come to be to the industry as a whole. This is the best ebook competition out there and there are those within the finalist ranks who have gone on to become NYC authors. EPIC has been seen as an innovator in the ebook industry for more than ten years and wants to continue to do so for each and every ebook author!

With over 30 categories to choose from there is a category specific to your genre in the ebook field. This includes categories in children, poetry, fiction, romance, erotic romance and many, many more.  Entries are still being accepted until August 15, 2009 for ebooks published between October 1, 2008 and May 31, 2009. Full details, plus entry forms here: http://bit.ly/M9NUc

Finalists will be announced November 2009 with the awards presented to the receiptents at EPIC’s 2010 conference in New Orleans, March 4-7, 2010.

Second, EPIC needs judges and if you feel you can qualify as a judge, please sign up immediately for participation! Only industry professionals need apply. Contact Anne Douglas at epic.competition.coordinator@gmail.com for more information. You will read some of the best books in the field…and love doing it!

And finally, don’t forget to sign up for EPIC’s 2010 Conference in New Orleans. We have a host of great people this year with agents, editors and authors alike. The conference is still small enough that you will get the special attention you need as a writer but large enough that you’ll be rubbing elbows with industry professionals in the eBook field. Just some of our schedules guest include Debra Dixon, Deidre Knight and Holly Jacobs as well as industry professional such as Daniel Reitz of Mundania Press with more signing up every day!

The information for EPIC can be found at http://www.epicauthors.com/, so don’t hesitate to stop by today!

Thanks!

Jim Brown
&
Carol MacLeod

EPIC’s 2010 Ebook Competition opens today!

EPIC

Today marks the opening of the entry period for the prestigious e-publishing awards contest, EPIC’s 2010 Ebook Competition. EPIC’s competition this year covers 37 genres and sub-genres of fiction. It’s open to ebooks published between October 12, 2008 and May 31, 2009, and the entry period is from July 15th – Aug 15th.

Follow the link to the competition page and download all the information you need http://bit.ly/M9NUc

EPIC is the “Electronically Published Internet Connection” and is the foremost organisation for published/contracted authors and industry figures in the e-publishing industry. It’s the voice of e-publishing. If you figure in the e-publishing industry in any way, you must consider joining EPIC.

Jim Brown

http://www.logical-lust.com

http://www.ll-publications.com

The Ebook Reader Price Survey

This survey is still open and I ask you all, if you haven’t done so already, to take the survey and pass it on to other interested parties.

The survey asks how low a price needs to fall before you will make that all important purchase of an ebook Reader.

http://bit.ly/j9FfW

You don’t have to register, nor does this survey require your email address or any other personal data. A simple response is all that’s required.

Permission is granted to pass the survey details on to any/all interested parties.

Best

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Jim Brown (EPIC Secretary)
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Ebook and Epublishing information search

*This request is passed on from Amy Corwen*

I’ve been honored to be included in a RWA task force looking at the world of e-publishing with an eye toward helping authors make well-informed choices in their professional life/career as a writer.

Therefore, I’d like to collect information from authors about their e-publishing experiences, the good, the bad, the ugly.  The one area that is very difficult to obtain information is on the good—for obvious reasons.

If it is working for you, you tend not to need the release of vocalization— so I am particularly interested in what attracted you to e-publishing, how it is working for you, myths you can explode or myths that have proven to be true, etc.

All information will be kept confidential.  I’m just trying to build up a fair picture—but like I said, the “positive side” is less heavily weighted at the moment because of a scarcity of information.

I do need all sides, though—both good and bad.

If you have any opinions, experiences, thoughts, you can share, please mail them privately to me at amy@amycorwin. com.

—-To Readers:
It never hurts to have a perspective from the “customer”.  What attracts you to e-books?  Do you have any comments you would like to share to authors regarding e-books in comparison to “traditional books in a bookstore”?

THANKS!
Sincerely,
Amy Corwin
e-mail:  amy@amycorwin.com
web site:  http://www.amycorwin.com

Amazon buys Stanza

Amazon buys Lexcycle, the company responsible for the e-reader software, Stanza, used on iPhones, iPod Touch, etc.

This is a very clever move by Amazon. Criticised, rightly, for the Kindle’s lack of flexibility over what it can read, this may be a step towards Stanza appearing on the Kindle and other formats being read on Amazon’s flagship reader.

The danger, some will see, is Amazon taking another large chunk of the whole publishing/bookseller industry. Criticised also for the demise of many a small bookstore, and for the way it treats its workforce, Amazon is certainly never far away from controversy.

As a publisher, it’s often with grinding teeth that I deal with Amazon. The exposure is wonderful. Some of their vendor tools are great to work with, but when problems occur Amazon is extraordinarily difficult to deal with. They are now so overly outsourced that, rather than the left hand not knowing what the right is doing, Amazon now appears to be a multi-left-handed company.

Overall, though, for readers and publishers, and therefore authors too, this may turn out to be one of their better moves.

Jim Brown

http://www.logical-lust.com