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Coming Soon as an E-Book — The Prairie Grass Murders

November 15, 2010 By: Patricia

I’m making progress toward bringing The Prairie Grass Murders into this new digital publishing world. I’ll keep you posted as I get the formatted files uploaded and finish whatever else I need to do.

For now, I just want you to see my new cover art designed by a University of Colorado student, Jalena Marie Penaligon, whose mom is a Colorado author and a good friend. Networking is a wonderful thing.

I told Jalena my ideas for the cover, and she gave me exactly what I wanted:


I cut my time investment way down by paying a local expert to format my manuscript, so I wouldn’t have to battle that particular learning curve. Next week I’ll work on uploading the files for Kindle, Nook, etc. If my blog posts are a little short this week, I know you’ll understand.

And you might want to follow The Blood-Red Pencil blog for the next two weeks. We’re doing a series on e-publishing with a variety of posts that may help you with your own digital publishing projects.

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Comments

  1. Hilary Melton-Butcher says

    November 17, 2010 at 10:09 am

    Hi Patricia .. I love the cover – and totally agree with everyone else .. you seem to have it taped! Good luck though with all the projects ..

    Have a good week .. even though I’m late in! Cheers Hilary

  2. Patricia Stoltey says

    November 17, 2010 at 9:21 am

    The formatting issue is one I’ve noticed since I downloaded the Kindle App to my computer. I’m hoping my Kindle conversion guy has that all figured out so I don’t have to do much tweaking.

  3. Medeia Sharif says

    November 16, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    Congrats! I’m a big fan of ebooks.

    I’ve encountered many ebooks with formatting problems. At times there are no spaces between words and strange line breaks. These are small blips that might slow me down for a second.

  4. Laura Eno says

    November 16, 2010 at 7:13 am

    Congrats and great cover! I upload to Kindle separately, but I let Smashwords take care of all the other formats. Seems easier to me. Good luck!

  5. The Old Silly says

    November 16, 2010 at 4:53 am

    Love the cover and good luck with the e-release, Pat! Also thanks for the heads-up on the BRP series.

  6. Patricia Stoltey says

    November 15, 2010 at 10:49 pm

    I’m rather pleased by the e-book prices as well. Now I just need to learn how to read faster.

  7. Ann Best says

    November 15, 2010 at 7:57 pm

    Oh, I wish I had this cover on the copy I have. I love it!

    Jumping into the digital world–I’m exhausted just finishing my last round of revisions! But I’ll be keeping up with all this through Blood Red Pencil, and your posts! Like Clarissa, I too am beginning to read more through e-books. They’re less expensive, and, well, in this depressed economy, what can one do?
    Ann

  8. Jemi Fraser says

    November 15, 2010 at 6:52 pm

    Sounds terrific! THe thought of doing all that formatting terrifies me πŸ™‚

  9. Clarissa Draper says

    November 15, 2010 at 5:35 pm

    Oh, I can’t wait! I mainly by ebook now.
    CD

  10. Monti says

    November 15, 2010 at 5:27 pm

    Beautiful cover! The colors are perfect!

    Monti
    MaryMontagueSikes

  11. Cricket McRae says

    November 15, 2010 at 1:40 pm

    Looks great, Patricia. Very smart to have the cover designed locally and to get someone to format your ms. so you can focus on other things. And I’m glad The Prairie Grass Murders will continue to be available via e-book!
    Hearth Cricket

  12. Alex J. Cavanaugh says

    November 15, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    That’s awesome, Patricia!

  13. Kay Theodoratus says

    November 15, 2010 at 12:29 pm

    Hey … I like this cover better than the original one.

  14. Talli Roland says

    November 15, 2010 at 11:44 am

    Love the cover, Patricia! Good luck with the ebook – keep us posted!

  15. Elspeth Antonelli says

    November 15, 2010 at 11:29 am

    What an evocative cover, Pat! Best of digital luck to you as you wade into e-book ocean.

  16. N. R. Williams says

    November 15, 2010 at 10:24 am

    Very cool Patricia. I just bot a DroidX…I am so excited. I can now download e-books as soon as payday comes around anyway. I will check out the Blood Red Pencil.
    Nancy
    N. R. Williams, fantasy author

  17. Patricia Stoltey says

    November 15, 2010 at 10:10 am

    Good morning,everyone. Thanks for the book cover comments. I’m very pleased with my artist’s work.

    Thanks for the promo offer, Jan. As soon as I know the book is out there, I’d love to have some help with getting the word out. I’ll be in touch.

    Terry, I’m going to upload directly to each e-book site rather than going through Smashwords. I understand payment is a little faster without the middle man, and that makes sense to me. I knew the formatting wasn’t a monster with the Five Star doc, but I’m just swamped with projects at the moment. I knew this job would get put off too long.

    As for no cover art to display, Arlee, I think I’ll print out a copy and frame it to hang above my bookcase. Can’t let good art hide inside an e-reader. πŸ™‚

  18. Arlee Bird says

    November 15, 2010 at 9:56 am

    I really like the cover art–I’m a big fan of dirt roads, country roads, and roads in general.
    If you get the book on e-reader you don’t have that nice cover to display in your book collection.

    LeeTossing It Out

  19. Jan Morrison says

    November 15, 2010 at 9:01 am

    Hey – that is a beautiful cover – of course I’m a prairie chick (born in Medicine Hat, Alberta) so…
    As soon as you get up and going I’ll post a link to your seller on my blog – let’s get together and make this happen!

  20. Margot Kinberg says

    November 15, 2010 at 8:54 am

    Patricia – What a terrific cover!! And it really does capture the novel. I wish you well going digital!!!

  21. welcome to my world of poetry says

    November 15, 2010 at 8:45 am

    Sounds good Patricia, excellent cover,

    Have a lovely day.
    Yvonne.

  22. Karen Walker says

    November 15, 2010 at 8:30 am

    Love the cover, Patricia. I’m so impressed that you are taking this step in the new digital world. I’m still debating…
    karen

  23. Terry Odell says

    November 15, 2010 at 8:24 am

    Patricia, if you submitted your book electronically to Five Star (and I know you must have) it’s practically formatted already. I found that formatting for Smashwords which wants a .doc format, then taking that and doing a simple “save as html” in Word covers almost all the bases. The hardest part is finding a cover, and it looks like you got a good one.

    Good luck — with your release.

    Terry
    Terry’s Place
    Romance with a Twist–of Mystery

Meet Patricia

I read, I write, I blog, and sometimes I do the laundry and cook. My 2014 novel, Dead Wrong, was a finalist in the thriller category of the 2015 Colorado Book Awards. Wishing Caswell Dead (Five Star/Cengage, December 20, 2017) is a historical mystery set in 1830s Illinois in the fictitious Village of Sangamon. The novel was a finalist for the 2018 Colorado Book Awards for General Fiction. My most recent release, In Defense of Delia (Five Star/Cengage, November 2022), is available in hardcover and will soon be available in ebook and trade paperback. Read More…

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