Howdy! It’s autumn in Wyoming, so the leaves are chang­ing col­or, and the air is get­ting brisk.  Here’s what I’ve accom­plished this week:

Work in Progress News ~ I haven’t writ­ten any­thing new in what feels like months! I just fin­ished tweak­ing Retreat. I’m hop­ing to get it up on the sales sites almost imme­di­ate­ly after the old ver­sion is pulled, but I’m not exact­ly sure how I’ll do with that tim­ing. There might be a lapse. Olivia got the offi­cial blurb for Last Call from Samhain Pub­lish­ing (their blurb guru is amazing)

Indus­try News ~ I love this week’s headline. Harper­Collins Pub­lish­ers Mak­ing 5000 Titles Avail­able Print on Demand. That’s great news! They’re the first of the “big six” to embrace POD pub­lish­ing. This will mean few­er “out of print” titles, larg­er avail­abil­i­ty, and a much hap­pi­er environment.

New York, NY, — In a first from a major trade pub­lish­er, Harper­Collins Pub­lish­ers today announced “Com­pre­hen­sive Back­list.” This pro­gram will allow all phys­i­cal book­stores, from the largest to the small­est, to pro­mote and sell the Harper­Collins back­list through in-store “Dig­i­tal-to-Print at Retail” (DPR) using the Espres­so Book Machine (EBM). The pro­gram will enable book­stores to offer thou­sands of trade paper­back books from the Harper­Collins cat­a­log through a mix of tra­di­tion­al­ly print­ed books and DPR, as space and cash flow restric­tions will no longer be a fac­tor. DPR edi­tions will be sold on an agency mod­el. It is expect­ed that the inde­pen­dent book­stores that already have the Espres­so Book Machine in place will join the program.

If you don’t know what the EBM is, click that link for a YouTube video. It’s the future of pub­lish­ing, y’all.
Real Life News ~ I got noth­in. I’m pret­ty much a bor­ing per­son late­ly. I actu­al­ly worked a whole bunch at my part time job this past week. I’ll blame my bor­ing-ness on that.
Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ This week I got a whole lot of folks search­ing for cin­ema­graphs. Now there are plen­ty of those out there, but they end­ed up on my Cinecov­er page, where I’ve put all my new ani­mat­ed book cov­ers. Aren’t they gor­geous? I mean real­ly, why not have some fun with e‑book cov­ers? Thanks to Michael at Booknibbles.com for my new eye candy.

Hero Quote ~ From my untilt­ed work in progress:  “I don’t even know who I am.” Noah spoke through his teeth. “Do you know what that’s like? To not even rec­og­nize yourself?”

Favorite Song of the Week ~ A new one by Matt Nathanson. This one makes me smile.

 That’s it for me. I hope you all have a great week!