Woo Hoo! Against all likelihoods, I’ve just uploaded an epub digital copy of ‘A Specialist at The Recycled Heart‘ to Smashwords, for release on 12th September 2022.
Out of order, completely not what was planned, but there it is. A Specialist is a kind of companion collection to The Garden Black. Speculative and out of this world (a bit).
Here is the cover:
In coming days I’ll upload to Amazon and wherever else I need to to have that all happening. I will then schedule the paperback release – possibly a few days earlier than the 12th, mainly to enable any early reviewers who would like to post a review in time for the epub release.
I will also be making a digital copy available to my ARC (Advanced Reading Copy) group, so if you are not a member of that group and would like to be, let me know. All I need is a preferred first name and an email address. You’ll get to read the book first and have a chance to shape prospective reviewers interest by posting yor own reviews and telling what you thought of the coillection. There are many readers who instinctively feel that poetry is not something that would appeal to them. You could help change their minds!
If I get a chance, I’ll record a couple of the poems from the collectionand post them to YouTube, though these are busy times and I’m not sure how I’ll go with that.
This has been perhaps the smoothest preparation of a book for publication that I’ve experienced, and I’m hoping readers will sense that as they handle the book and read the poems.
I’ll keep you informed as each little landmark and milestone is passed. Meanwhile, I’ve made a Universal Booklink that should offer to take you to your favorite bookstore (digital editions) to check it out. Here is the Universal link.
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Congratulations Frank! Very impressive
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Thank you, Sadje. It will be a relief to have a couple of these books released and beyond my needing to fiddle with the drafts all the time.
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You’re most welcome
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Congratulations, Frank!
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Thanks Liz. I think I’ll be able to move on Flock very soon, now, as well. Such a lot of backroom work getting them ready, that I quake a little at finding the time to organise them, but I’ve started now, so I imagine I’ll plug along until they’re don.
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You’re welcome, Frank. You are very productive!
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Wow Frank congrats! You are a machine! I look forward to reading for sure! 🙂
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Thaks Debby. More like a bit of a nutcase, I reckon.
I’ve just now finished uploading the Kindle and pricing the paperback for release, so should have an Amazon reference number soon.
I’ll send a note out to ARC readers with a link to download.
Flock will come next – as soon as I can manage it, now. I want these books out there.
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Yay! Great Frank. I look forward. 🙂
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I’ll get on to the ARC group email soon, Debby – maybe today, as the pre-order listing is up on Amazon and a few other places now.
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Wonderful Frank! 🙂
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Thanks Debby. All done.
On to the next job.
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🙂
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Congratulations also from me, Frank! A very well crafted cover, a great eyecatcher. Best wishes, Michael
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Thank you, Michael. Glad you liked the cover, it seemed right for the title.
Hope your weekend is excellent, too. We have had hail storms.
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Excellent news, Frank! I know you’re flat out getting everything done, but when you have a moment, try to remember how you felt with the /first/ one. That’s how far your tech skills have come. Congratulations most sincerely. 🙂
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A heck of a journey, Andrea. The first for me personally was in 2018, dealing with a formatter long distance and having to convert everything back to plain, unformatted tet, then talk the chap through how I wanted it to look.Figuring out white space management was maddening. I finally learnt to do that well just last week.
It’s frustrating fun.
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Yes! That’s it – white space management. I can honestly say you do it very, very well. 🙂
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So very important for poetry layout where carriage returns hardly ever figure and hard returns mark a line break, rather than a paragraph.
InDesign and similar programs ignore the white space from, say, a double hard return to make a blank line, and squash the text together unless steps are taken.
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Ouch. And yet, you’ve learned a vital lesson that you’ve already put to good use. 🙂
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It’s fundamental for a poetry layout, I think. Tedious as heck.
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But it looks fabulous when it’d done. 😀
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Yes. It looks ‘right’.
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It does. 🙂
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That sounds great Frank. I don’t think I am part of the ARV What need I do?
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