Buy Elok's Book!

[Spacy]

cool

[Elok]

Actually, it took them maybe three hours to get it up, I just forgot to post here when I notified my FB page.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073PCRQFK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1499107076&sr=1-1&keywords=The+curse+of+life

Do let me know about the conversion quality!  I did my best for somebody who's never read an ebook, going off how it looked on Amazon's previewer.  By the way, I highly recommend the Calibre ebook management tool for anybody else slogging through this.  The controls look complex, but there are lots of simple guides scattered around the internet, and it's quite powerful.  Free, too.

[Spacy]

picked it up on Kindle. 

Will hopefully get a chance to read it in the next week or so.  Daughters 2nd bday on Saturday, and between now and then life will just get crazier and crazier...... but the good kind of crazy, ya know.

[Elok]

Well, that brings it up to 19 copies, only 8 of which were my mother.  Thanks!  I really should work out how to promote on no budget; I've already ordered a copy for the local library, but I don't expect that to do much . . .

EDIT: Here's an extremely crude map I made of the book's world in MS Paint.  Each pixel is 10,000 square kilometers, more or less.  The grey is high-elevation land with an extremely thin atmosphere--basically lifeless.  The cracks and squiggles are the viable lowlands; color coding should be fairly obvious.

[Bearu]

The forum rules forbid the advertisement of specific products for sale. Who would want to advance the goals of a transactional perspective when the warmth of the collective and individualistic embrace enhances a positive perspective of the activities in the world? A potential goal of the product remains to enhance a specific agenda without the potential benefits for the people, and the book could produce a number of subversive ideas without the appropriate revisions.

[Buster's Uncle]

MY interpretation of the forum rules is that YOU, as an established member of this community may shamelessly flack your own projects - a stranger may not.

-Other than that, read the book.

[Elok]

I'd like to think I'll one day be important enough for my book to be considered "subversive."  But I suspect not.  Alas.

[Bearu]

I apologize for the angry tirade from earlier in the week, and the book represents a potential stepping stone towards the correct orientation of the writer because the people need every citizen to feel invigorated at the potential notion of a new writer to support the peoples' strength. The adaptability of the writer represents the potential need for the strength of the topic in the creation of a new creed in the population.

[Elok]

Hey, don't worry about it.

[Spacy]

I am about 1/3 of the way into it now. 

[Geo]

Mylochka did that cover art, by the way.

Yes, I recognized the style.

[Elok]

I am about 1/3 of the way into it now.

Awesome!  I hope you like it.  And if you don't, I'm glad you got the ebook, as it means you spent considerably less cash.

[Rusty Edge]

I hate to see your book bumped from the first page.

I haven't achieved immersion. While I'm impressed with it, I find myself wishing for a narrative. I think science fiction needs that to illustrate the world. Either that or more art.

I could be wrong, it's only my first impression.

[Buster's Uncle]

I found I was about a quarter of the way in, on the draft I read, before I began keeping track of the people and having a sense of things happening as they were described - a 'movie' playing in my head...

[Elok]

For whatever reason, everybody had difficulties getting into it.  But I've received opposite reasons why; somebody at Poly told me that it would have been easier if I'd eased into it rather than start with story.  I dunno, man.  I wish I knew just what made it hard to get into.