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This morning, Barb came across the following article in the New York Times. Though it pertains to print books in physical bookstores (at this time), it is of interest to both readers and writers where print and electronic books are concerned for the future.
Special arrangements for display space and/or positioning of new books in bookstores has been the standard for a long time. This new battle affects wholesale purchase of books before display arrangements are made… specifically which books...



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No, not exposing themselves (come on now) but their books. J.C. here, this time, with some thoughts on this scary (rather than titillating) topic.
How is it that a reader (of fantasy or other premise genre) discovers not just a new book but maybe a new author? Both the casual shopper and the specific fantasy shopper are of great concern here. Neither are served by online stores the way they used to be served by physical stores. The author, as well as the reader, is shorted by this. Let us...



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Yesterday was our 28th wedding anniversary.  We had a very fun day in which we'd planned an "outing," and we left about 10:00 yesterday morning to go do various things to celebrate.

 

But I did have one moment of discomfort and worry.  JC and I stopped by the huge Bridgeport Mall up in Tualatin.  There used to be a large Borders there, but it closed down when the company went belly up.  However, B&N picked up the lease a few months ago. 



We were so happy...



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Miss Ashes was raaaaaaaather naughty yesterday.  First, she tracked cat litter all over my clean hard wood floor, and then she somehow got up into the bedroom closet, got into a bag of yarn, and managed to pull down a pretty good sized ball.










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The final detail—the title—of the next volume in the Noble Dead Saga has been settled after consulting with our editor. Series 3, Book 3 is officially titled… A Wind in the Night
We will add it to the books listing at NobleDead.org, though further details are still pending. This next volume will again contain three stories intertwined.
You will briefly step back to the end of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark and catch up from there with Wynn Hygeorht, Chane Andraso, and Chap’s daughter, the black...



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J.C. here to introduce Barb’s new entry in this article series. You might think the internet’s rapid growth makes information more accessible to all. “Information” is not the same as “fact” or “truth.” Add in that the amount of misinformation (and disinformation) is growing exponentially, and the internet now empowers rumors like nothing else before it. It is probably not surprising to any of you that there are people who actually think those rumors are true… a fact.
All of this applies to...



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Okay . . . so it's been a long couple of months--good but long.



First, I have to say that I LOVE the new look JC has given to this website.  I'm so lucky that I married a webmaster.  Without him, I'd have to pay someone to set all this up for me.



Second, yesterday, I completed the sequel to The Mist-Torn Witches.



This second book is titled Witches in Red, and it's a who-done-it murder mystery in a fantasy setting . . . with werewolves.  I also threw in a bit of dark...



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A while back, we decided to discontinue hosting book “excerpts” at our sites, NobleDead.org and BarbHendee.org. Such are available at all online vendors for the ebook editions of our works. Hosting our own excerpts seemed redundant, but things change..
Excerpts of the first volume in the coming Mist-Torn Witches series are now available at both of our sites. Go into either site’s “Books” page, select the book’s title in the right-hand menu, and you will see the link directly below the book’s...



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Cheryl Minekime wins the surprise fourth signed hardbound first editions of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark.
Even now, Cheryl’s prize is in the mail and on its way to her doorstep. This concludes the sixth and final round of this current series of six raffles for signed volumes from the Noble Dead Saga.
Once again, we wish to thank all of you who got involved in this raffle series. If you were not one of the lucky winners, do not be too sad. More raffles will come in the future, one of them...



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The current raffle for a signed hardbound first edition of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark ended as of midnight last night. Hopefully all of you got your entry in before the deadline. The winner selected via use of Random.org has been notified via email and has 48 hours to respond with verification of shipping address. If no response is received, a new winner is selected and verification repeats. Come Monday we should have either a winner to announce or notification of a redraw process. And now… ...



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