Free Peggy Bright Books Sampler

Here's the link to a post I did on the ASIM blog yesterday, which gives yet another link to the PBB web site: http://andromedaspaceways.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/light-touch-paper-stand-clear-free.html

If you want to know why Light Touch Paper Stand Clear is on this year's Ditmars list or even if you just want a free sample before deciding whether to invest time in reading it, you can download it in PDF, mobi or ePub.

My ASIM Stories Back Up!

If you take a look at the side of this page, at Pages, you'll notice I have reinstalled my ASIM stories, as   Sue's Andromeda Spaceways Stories, right below Sampler Of Sue Bursztynski Stories 2012 , which are the ones eligible for the Chronos Awards. If you live in Australia, you have till Monday to read and nominate them. They're all stories I'm proud of, but with so much published by Aussie press, big and small, some things get missed, alas. If you're outside Australia, why not download them anyway? They're free.  In any case,  both these pages will stay up and may occasionally be added to.

Just be aware that the files are ePub only, as that's what Creative Book Builder does, as well as PDF. No Mobi at this stage, alas, but PDF can be opened on a Kindle, it just doesn't have a cover. If you want PDF, feel free to contact me at sbursztynski@gmail.com and I'll send it to you. Thanks, miki and Austin, for requesting your PDFs, which I hope you will enjoy!

Ebooks Back Up - and the Chronos Awards!

Ebook Glue has gone to a paying model. It's not that I mind paying - they don't charge much - but I don't like placing my card details online any more than I can help. If I could do it with an iTunes card, I would. 

So, sorry, goodbye Ebook Glue, which was a fabulous site to use and good luck to the person who runs it. But it means that any links I put there have been wiped, along with all the other free ebooks created there. If you downloaded one, it will still work, but if you go to the site, you'll find the page is nonexistent. I have left the interviews link up on Pages for the moment, till I can rustle up another ebook, using my Creative Book Builder app.

I had no idea how to make a link for a CBB file till I had tea and chips with a technological friend last night. Bart had a fiddle on his iPhone, by way of experiment, and discovered that you can upload your CBB files  to Dropbox, email a link  to yourself (or anyone else) and then I simply needed to copy and paste the link here. A little long-way-round, but it works, so thank you, Bart!

For the time being, if anyone wants a PDF file, they will have to request it, because I couldn't get my PDF files up there, not sure why, since I saw other PDF files in my folder. But I'll work it out. I *think* you can put PDF on Kindle, but CBB doesn't do Mobi, alas. So for the time being, anything you download from here will be strictly ePub (another thing I will miss about Ebook Glue, which gave you both options).

I will be putting the ASIM  stories back in the next day or two - probably two, because I am about to get myself ready and go collecting donations for the Royal Children's Hospital, which will take me all day, then spend time with my family.

Meanwhile, I have put back the Sunshine College anthology - I am so proud of our students! - and, more importantly for me, all my stories that were published last year. I did this too late for the Ditmar Awards, but there are still a few days left till the Chronos Awards nominations close - Monday, in fact. Probably still too late even for that, but if you're reading this, why not download the book and, if you love them, and live in Australia, how about nominating one for the Chronos Awards? And if you don't live in Australia, why not download the ebook anyway? Perhaps if you like it, you might check out some of my other stuff. Even if you have read the stories, I have added an afterword to each, explaining what was behind them.

Here are the stories:

Brothers, first published in Mythic Resonance and edited by the lovely Satima Flavell, who has already nominated it for a Chronos. Snow White and the Seven Tolkienesque Dwarves. I wondered what would happen if Snow White had been less passive and the cutesy dwarfs were more like Tolkien's Dwarves.

Midwinter Night: A story first published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #54, edited by Simon Petrie. Set in the universe of my novel Wolfborn, it is seen from the viewpoint of Yvonne, a cousin of Eglantine, the wife of the werewolf knight, Geraint. In this we learn just why Eglantine was so terrified when she found out her husband was a werewolf. It doesn't matter if you've read the novel or not - the story stands alone. 

Five Ways To Start A War, published last year by Peggy Bright Books, in the anthology Light Touch Paper Stand Clear, edited by Edwina Harvey and Simon Petrie. This anthology is itself on the Ditmars list, by the way, along with one of the stories, The Bone Chime Song. My story is about how the Trojan War started, from five different viewpoints - and if you're expecting a Greek tragedy, you'll be disappointed. I was in an extremely silly mood when I wrote it.

So, given that some of you may prefer to click straight into the link, here are the links to the ebooks that I have put back. Download and enjoy!

Sunshine College Best Writing Anthology

http://db.tt/Osd7VgtK

My Chronos-eligible stories for 2013

http://db.tt/nul4k5Tz

Celebrating My 100,000 Hits With a Free Ebook!

Today my blog reached 100,000 hits and beyond. I wondered how to celebrate. I have, to be honest, become a little tired of book giveaways; hardly anyone ever enters, no matter how well promoted the giveaway is! It's a disappointment. That doesn't mean I will never do another one, but right now - no.

However, I have decided to do a sort-of-giveaway. I have put together some of my stories originally published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, as an ebook. I couldn't find the file of my first one - I think I may have typed it on a previous computer and somehow it's just not there any more. I will retype it from the published version - later. The most recent is really too recent, having been in ASIM #54, which is still in print, and unless it somehow made it on to the Ditmar short list, I think I will leave it for now. I should have done this while the Ditmar nominations were still open - too late, alas!

So, from now on, you'll find a permanent link on the side of this page - well, as long as Ebook Glue is around, and it's a fairly new web site.

I had to do it in Ebook Glue to be able to put a link on to the page, so it will have a plain cover and the title "Creativity Rocks!", which is the title of the blog I set up especially for the purpose of turning posts into ebook for my students' work, but if you want something a little fancier, email me and I'll send you the version I created on Creative Book Builder. But that version is only on ePub; this one will give you a choice of ePub or Mobi. And I've added an afterword to each one, talking about how I came up with the idea for the story, only on the Ebook Glue version.

Here are the stories:

Bytepals, published in ASIM #8, edited by former ASIM  co-op member Sally Beasley. Have you ever wondered why kids on the Internet always look glazed-eyed and sit around in the dark? It's set in the Wolfborn universe, sort of, but in our world and in modern times. Australia has had werewolves since convict times and nobody travels to Armorique, where there are - erk! - vampires! Vampires are not allowed in Australia, even cute ones with dark, curly hair who were born that way....

Choices, from ASIM #12, edited by Edwina Harvey, who is now a freelance editor specialising in speculative fiction, but willing to edit anything, including doctoral theses (she's currently doing just that, but I KNOW she'd rather edit a novel, especially a YA novel). King Arthur's wizard, Merlin, has retired, leaving his apprentice, Nimue, in charge. Nimue can see Camelot's end coming and wants to prevent it. Can she change history? Read it and find out!

Of Loaves, Fishes And Mars Bars, published in ASIM #29, edited by Dirk Flinthart, himself a fabulous writer who is doing very well these days. Elanor, named after a character from Tolkien, is a member of a family that has had a cheap-looking metal cup for generations. When she becomes an Arthurian scholar, she has a sneaking suspicion the cup may be a bit more than it seems....

Go on, owners of ebook readers, go and get my mini-ebook - you know you want to! Help me celebrate my 100,000th hit!

Here's a link, in case you're too lazy to click into the link under Pages:

https://ebookglue.com/share/https://ebookglue.com/share/jEio7cCDLmrEsimUSKJXHU


SINCE WRITING THE ABOVE: I have been having trouble with the Ebook Glue site. If you click into the link under Pages, you'll get the three stories, but also my school's anthology. So I emailed the owner of Ebook Glue, who kindly fixed it up for me and offered to ebook other stuff for me, but also said the site is going to paid.

Anyway, I can't give you a link to that right now, unless it has been fixed at the web site level - will check it out and report back. Meanwhile, anyone who wants a copy in either mobi or ePub can contact me at sbursztynski@gmail.com, or comment here with their own email. I have sent off a PDF to miki, which I got from my own app, and can also do ePub on that.

I am planning to whip up an ebook of my eligibles for the Chronos Awards - of which more later. There are only a few more days to nominate.