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2010

♦ August 25  Google Checkout Is Coming After reading so many issues and complaints about using only PayPal to process customer orders we have decided to add the Google Checkout option to our site. At the moment it is the only way we can safely assure that your credit card orders will be processed in a timely manner. Look for the buttons which will pop up like mushrooms in the next few days and we hope to be up and active with Google checkout by September 1 or sooner.
      Apparently there are a lot of people out there who have had a bad experience with PayPal, and while we have had no problems with it since 2007, we cannot work around the perception that because PayPal is owned by eBay that it is not doing what it is supposed to. PayPal still operates as a reliable payment processor for many people who don't even use eBay as a selling venue. However, there is a rumor going around that a Visa CEO is pushing to acquire PayPal, which basically means that users of MasterCard may not be able to use it any more. There is an antitrust bedbug infestion in the mattress of the economy, and we want to stand independent of any takeover bids and other financial shenanigans caused by the big walruses. This is why we will continue to offer PayPal but also allow our customers some freedom of choice. So in the future the buttons will exist side by side or on a dropdown menu.
Thanks for your attention.

♦ August 13  Antellus Enters a New Venture We have begun the process of making our ebooks available in ePub and Mobi formats through our new friends at ebooksforpleasure.com, an ebook selling site which is just testing its wings. It is already populated with some good ebooks to buy. Our ebooks will also be hosted here in those formats in the near future. More announcements are forthcoming about this development.

♦ August 13  A Few Tweaks To The Site We discovered recently that the epub format ebooks we had available are not compatible with most devices so we have withdrawn them from sale, and added our own buttons for the PDF ebooks in case you don't want to deal with another seller. We hope to have the epub issue resolved in about a week.
     Meanwhile, we have just learned that our Kindle ebooks are now available through Amazon for the following devices: Kindle, Kindle DX, PC, MAC, iPhone, iPad, Android, 3WiFi, and 6 WiFi. This means we do not have to hunt around for an aggregator to reach Apple anymore. If you go on Amazon and purchase through them you should have something good to read posted to your device almost immediately.

♦ August 12  Theresa M. Moore Named as Finalist in The Great American Author Contest We just learned this morning that our favorite author has been named as one of several finalists in Off The Bookshelf's first contest since their grand opening. The contest runs through August and voting ends September 1. To vote, you must register with Off The Bookshelf as a reader, and you can only vote once. Please visit the site and vote for her. Thanks.
     ♦ Audiobook Project Still On Track We are working on a series of audio samples of the books we host on our site. We had planned on producing a series of audiobooks which will be available on CD since last year, and that project was delayed by other publishing concerns which we have since resolved. We anticipate that the first audio book will be issued sometime in September and will be made available for sale then.
Thanks for your attention. ♦
Centurion
is coming August 27. We think the Brits make the best Romans, don't you?

♦ August 8  Scribd Account Closed We did an analysis of the last year spent with Scribd and found that our participation in their "store" setup did not result in any significant sales. While Scribd is great for posting public documents for free, and the occasional preview, it is not good for sales and we were forced to conclude that there is a limit to their market reach. We have closed the account and may reopen later if and when we have any free previews to post for upcoming books, but not for sales. You can still find our ebooks for sale through Off The Bookshelf or our own site. Thanks for your attention.

♦ August 6  Our Kindle Ebooks Now Available in the UK We received the news this morning and have added the shopping links to our site. Amazon has chosen to expand its lineup of U.S. Kindle ebooks into its international sales sites, and we expect that this will result in a greater potential for our books to be seen outside of the U.S.. We eagerly await more good news if Amazon also expands onto its French and Japanese sites with titles published in the U.S.
     We ask that you pause for a moment to reflect on the anniversary of the first atom bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We hope something like this never happens again.

♦ August 2  Lulu Links Removed Again This time it is because of issues with the Lulu print to publish program and the ebook services. We tried, we really tried, and gave Lulu all sorts of chances to mend its ways, but it looks like all efforts to do business by their terms (or lack thereof) have failed. So we recommend you look only to our site and the people we trust to buy the books and ebooks we market for sale. The vetting process we use to sell the books is just the same as the kind of comparison shopping most other consumers use. We want quality and value just as much as you do. But after looking at the complaints we found on the Lulu forums we decided it was too risky a venture to pass on to our customers. At the moment we only have one book which can be published in a larger size than our other supplier offers, and we will concentrate on that rather than try to offer the other books through the Lulu marketplace.
     Another reason is that since Lulu has chosen to "open its marketplace to a wider audience", many of the authors the publisher has relied on in the past have been disenfranchised by this move. Lulu's CEO Bob Young as much as stated that he did not think it important that Lulu's chief suppliers, the self-publishing authors which made the company so successful in the first place, would be literally shoved aside by the titles published by traditional houses. He is only focused on making money, and it has become clear at the outset that Lulu has fallen into the same bad habits used by other self-publishing services often complained about and even sued by authors left out in the dark.
       We're Working On a New Direction As we had wanted to make our ebooks available for iPad we are working on that from a different direction. We are negotiating to make our ebooks available for Barnes & Noble's Nook as well as the other mobile devices through the new Pubit program. Since we have had much success selling ebooks through B&N before, we are trying for more direct access instead of going through a distributor service. More news as we learn what has to be done to achieve this. Meanwhile, please feel free to shop directly through us as usual.

♦ July 20  Some Ebooks May Appear on iPad Soon We're working to relist our fiction ebooks on the Apple iBookstore, and hope to have them listed there in the next month or so. Titles we submitted were: Destiny's Forge, To Taste The Dragon's Blood, Red Dragon, The Queen's Marksman, The Black Witch, VIRUS, and The Mystery of Cranewood Manor. Owing to the limitations of epub formatting and publishing, we cannot add our nonfiction titles or our anthology to that list. As soon as Written In BLOOD is finished we will be producing a print book and ebooks at the same time, and will publish a text version only for ePub format.
     More news as it happens. Thanks for your attention.

♦ July 19  Lulu Links Restored  If you will note on our product pages we have replaced some of the listing links to Lulu with their direct buy buttons for our printed books. They do charge shipping on orders less than $19.95, however, so be careful with this. We have also added direct links to CreateSpace. With these changes we hope that this will create a more flexible buying environment for our customers.
     We have also discontinued our Used Books service page as there has not been much interest in the books we had to offer. We may revive it later.

♦ July 9  More Changes  After having studied the situation at our old printing service in some depth we have concluded that the links we had up for our ebooks may have been either inactive or unreachable for some time, as there has not been much activity on the site. Since we had already registered with Off The Bookshelf some time ago we have added their shopping cart to our site for processing direct orders. You can still use the PayPal shopping cart for our printed books if you prefer and they are now at Amazon.com. We will be working on adding PayPal buttons for our ebooks if you prefer to use PayPal.
     Please note that we do not sell from eBay and are not affiliated with them in any way. While PayPal has been bought by them some time ago, PayPal continues to operate as an independent and autonomous site, so your payments will still go through our buttons regardless of the situation with eBay. We continue to make your purchasing experience as smooth as possible, so if you encounter any problems with our buttons, connectivity or other issues, please do not hesitate to notify us at webmaster(at)antellus(dot)com. Thanks for your attention.

♦ July 2  Updating The Site  In the process of upgrading all our books and making them available in several formats, we are also attempting to redecorate our site and making it easier to access all its features. We are also busy preparing our next book in the Children of The Dragon series, Written In BLOOD and hope to have it ready for preorder later this month, with a publication date sometime in August. We thank your for your patience. Meanwhile, please explore some of the new items we have posted. We hope you have a safe and sane 4th of July!

♦ June 28 Updates  We had planned to publish NAGRASANTI in a second size for dissemination to Amazon but diffulties arose which we could not circumvent. So we are still selling the book in the larger size and we hope you will buy a copy to read next to the pool. This is our illustrated anthology, which is chock full of great stuff.
     We are on track to attend Conjecture, the San Diego SF and fantasy convention at the beginning of October. We hope to have our fiction books available for sale along with our line of Nagrasanti Handcrafted Designer Jewelry. The piece on the site are the latest for the summer, and represent the finest of the entire collection. If you are in the San Diego area around that time do stop by and attend the convention. It is where local SF/fantasy artists and authors hang out.

♦ June 14 Onward For Summer  In the last few days we have posted most of our printed books on CreateSpace and already have 3 of them up on the Amazon site for sale. In the next week or so we should have the rest published and submitted to Amazon as well. In the meantime, we also have PDF and EPUB format copies of the books already for sale through Antellus, Lulu, Off The Bookshelf and on Kindle, so please take a look at our improvements and order. We guarantee free shipping for the summer if you order directly from us. Just click on a link of your choice, and thanks for your attention and kind support.

♦ June 1 Antellus Strikes Back  We began using our trademark symbol and registered the domain name "antellus.com" in March of 2009. In the last few days representives for a domain registry site called "ygnetwork.org.cn", notified us that a Chinese company declared its intention to register the Antellus trademark in the International Registry and buy up all the domain names not yet obtained. This had placed Antellus in a tenuous legal situation for a brief time. However, after an extensive legal search and review of commentary about this registry site, the issue came up that it was in fact a scam attempt to intimidate domain owners into buying the domain names from them in order to make money off the deal. Google searches blocked by China made it impossible to verify if the company in question exists.
     "At first we thought the declaration represented a danger to us as a simple bookselling site," author and CEO Theresa M. Moore said. "We sent letters to the State Department and the UN outlining our concerns, only to discover that it was all a hoax. How can these Chinese companies engage in international trademark infringement and web piracy and expect to get away with it?"
      As a result, we are looking into further legal representation to protect our trademark symbol and legal right to register the domains in perpetuity.
     If you get any emails from this registry company concerning your own domain names, ignore them. If anyone uses your brand or domain as their own they are in violation of the ICANN registry rules and can be prosecuted for trademark infringement.
     On a cheerier note, we have just republished A BOOK OF FIVE RINGS: A Practical Guide to Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi and have made the different formats the same price. The book is already on Kindle and will be made available in print to Amazon in the next two weeks or so. Meanwhile, you can still order it from us. Thanks for your attention.

♦ May 30 Our Summer Reading List  The following books have just been republished for sale in print and ebook versions: Destiny's Forge, To Taste The Dragon's Blood, NAGRASANTI, Red Dragon, The Queen's Marksman, The Black Witch, VIRUS, and The Mystery of Cranewood Manor. The next books we anticipate republishing in the next month will be A BOOK OF FIVE RINGS: A Practical Guide to Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi, and The Ten Percent Solution: Simplifying the Tax Code in The New Economy.
     Meanwhile, we will be publishing Written In BLOOD sometime in June or July. The delay is for logistical reasons apart from the illustrations being added to make the book a complete entertainment experience. The ebook version will be presented in full color except in the case of Kindle. Thanks for your patience.

♦ May 18 Google Editions May Be Off The Table  Due to conditions made untenable by difficulties with the Google Uploader for large files and also communications with staff to remove older editions of our books, we may not be partnering with Google to sell our ebooks after all. While Google has been eager to snap up smaller files (which we have yet to see listed), we find Google's customer support structure wanting.
     In a similar vein, we are also working to repopulate our printed books onto CreateSpace from Lulu as part of our efforts to speed up the updating and distribution process, reduce costs and make our books available for more affordable prices. Books which will be revamped in the near future are NAGRASANTI, VIRUS, and The Mystery of Cranewood Manor. In the coming months the rest of our books will be moved in the same manner. Written In BLOOD will be published directly through CreateSpace. All will be made available on Amazon for lower prices in addition to the Kindle ebooks already up on their site. Look for updates on our progress. Thanks for your attention.

♦ May 11  Antellus Reissues NAGRASANTI In Print and Ebook Formats   We have been able to streamline the printed book to a more modest size: 8.5" x 11" at 352 pages, and we now offer the book for $24.95. The PDF tops the scales at a whopping 27MB, at full size with a color cover and all interior illustrations included. Owing to the significant difference in formatting we have opted to price it at $11.99 instead of $14.99. It is now available at Lulu, here on our site, Scribd and Off The Bookshelf, and will be up for Amazon Kindle soon.
     In the same vein we have also reissued VIRUS with a fresh new cover and expanded it a bit. It is available for the same price as before, and it is also up on Lulu, Scribd and Off The Bookshelf.
     We are also planning to offer these ebooks on Google Editions for sale, along with other updated ebooks as they are produced. Thanks for your attention.

♦ May 7  Antellus to Issue NAGRASANTI In Ebook Format   We had been waiting for the digital publishing platforms to be developed in order to issue this illustrated anthology as an ebook, and we have chosed the PDF format because it supports illustrations. We hope to have it published for ereaders in the next week or so and will explore whether it can be uploaded to Kindle. Plans are definitely on to offer to through us, Scribd, Off The Bookshelf, and other ebook sellers online, for an affordable price of $14.99. Watch for it, won't you? Thanks for your attention.
     On a related topic we have offered two of our PDF format ebooks already and plan to offer NAGRASANTI as well, for direct sale on Google Editions. Watch for updates about this, as the situation is still fluid at this time. ♦

♦ May 5  To Taste The Dragon's Blood Reissued Book 2 in our Children of The Dragon series is now available in print and ebook formats. The prices are firm for the rest of the year. The book will go up on Amazon soon, but please order from us if you want the book sooner.

♦ April 27 Bards and Sages Leaves Lulu This is another reason why we have had to scramble to preserve the integrity of our supply chain. Julie Ann Dawson is a veteran Lulu publisher forced to change things by the situation on the ground. We applaud her courage and audacity to come out and take a stand about the self-publishing company. We are continuing to print through Lulu but only because its printing quality is bar none, otherwise we would be using another company. Our plans for expansion are only slightly delayed by the problems we face but that does not prevent us from continuing to offer our books at a lower price. More news about developments will be posted here in the coming months. ♦

♦ April 22 Destiny's Forge Reissued In the last few days we have finished the first book to be reissued with a new edition and cover. Destiny's Forge, book 1 in our Children of The Dragon series, is now available in print and ebook formats. The prices are firm for the rest of the year.
     ♦ Please note that when you order the ebooks via PayPal or mail we need an email address to send them to. The email address is usually the one you ordered from, not a personal box or a secondary email address. We have had an instance where a customer ordered via PayPal and then wondered what happened to the delivery when she inquired from a different email address. We shipped another copy to her at that address, but that is not a habit we want to cultivate. We can only guarantee delivery when the records are accurate according to whatever form you use to order with. Thanks for your attention.

♦ April 14 Some Radical Changes Due to some MAJOR errors we have found on our printer's catalog and web site, we may have to locate another printer. This is just an FYI for now. If we find that the problem is not fixed in another few days we will have to suspend the print books and also the epubs until we can produce new ones and go through the whole rigamarole again (groan). We are also anticipating reissuing the print books as new editions with possible cover design changes. But you may continue to order PDFs and other formats as usual. That should not take more than two shakes of a lamb's tail, and our customary delivery schedule will remain as is. If you have used the printed mail form in the interim, we will honor your order, or you may order through Amazon until you see the books are out of stock. Plans are in the works to present new epubs for iPad and cellphone apps if necessary; we hope these will not be disrupted, and as changes are made we will issue new Kindle ebooks accordingly. As a result of all this books which were scheduled for later this year have been pushed back into 2011. Thanks for your patience and we hope to be back up at full steam either next week or in a month for printed books. That all depends on our printer, which is slow to respond to emergencies if at all. Thanks for your attention. ♦

Non-Traditional Books Lead Industry's Growth -- filed by Gloria McDonough-Taub 4/14/10

♦ April 11 Our Ebooks Up on Scribd We have uploaded all our PDF ebooks into the Scribd Bookstore after having read that they have improved their ratings as a reputable site. You can still find them here for less, though. Either way, you can be sure of a safe and secure delivery of good quality for your precious $$$. Thanks for your attention. ♦

♦ April 6 Some New Changes We're brightening up the works with new colors. We're also working on bringing our ebooks to iPad, and will have them available there in the next few weeks (4-6), but if you need them for your other iPhone or other mobile device right now just look for the epub link on each product page, or buy a PDF. We have restored our Kindle links, but if you want to pay full price for our printed books go ahead; you'll have to search for them by ISBN or title on Amazon. We don't host Amazon links here because we sell them for less than Amazon, so why look for them there? Save your money. ♦

♦ March 30 Written In BLOOD Delayed Into April The trade paperback and ebooks will be published in April and simultaneously available from the product page. If you look for it on Amazon, the Kindle ebook will be appear the same week, then the paperback 6 to 8 weeks later. We cannot change this schedule unless we delay releasing the Kindle ebook until the print book shows up on Amazon. This is up to our printer, who is responsible for the issuance of the book. Written In BLOOD is the 8th book in the Children of The Dragon series; a chronicle of the Xosan, living vampires from the planet Antellus. It covers a volatile period in history from 1645 to 1789, and is an epic saga of adventure and vampire romance in the spirit of masterworks like The Three Musketeers, A Tale of Two Cities, and Laurence of Arabia. ♦

♦ March 23 Avatar Fans Are Learning to Speak Na'vi Anthropologists will be gratified to learn that the oral tradition of education still works. For a complete article on the language: Paul Frommer.

♦ March 23 OR Books Says Goodbye to Amazon.  This is a reiteration of our reasons why we removed our Amazon links. Amazon does not need us to sell our own books for them, since you can still get them here for less than list price. We had been leary of Amazon's selling program since March of 2008, when they commanded Lulu to publish all books aimed for their marketplace only through their printer BookSurge (which has since been merged into CreateSpace). Many independent publisher and authors balked, and Amazon lost a huge share of the book market. In September of 2009 Amazon settled with Booklocker and agreed it would not attempt such moves to corner the market in the future. However, Amazon has a short attention span, like a kid who texts too much. Sooner or later it will flex its muscle with smaller concerns, and that will spell the end of its reach. If you really want reliable, caring service and save some money, buy our books from us. You will not regret it.
     In the next few weeks we will be adding other formats of our books to our own catalog, and offering the epub format books directly also, for delivery into your inbox. For mail order, be sure to include your valid email address so that we can deliver your purchase to you. Your privacy is guaranteed. ♦

♦ March 16 Removing Smashwords Links  After some six months of struggling to maintain our distribution channels with Smashwords, we have finally had to bid farewell and removed all our ebooks from their site. Issues arising from their inability to maintain their conversion engine, their program subroutines and the frequent rate at which their site goes down, as well as consistent lack of sales as a result, forced us to make this move. We have replaced their links with links to our book publishing partner in order to provide our epub format ebooks to you direct from our own site.
     With the divestiture of Smashwords comes the end of any further efforts to use a third party platform to sell or distribute our ebooks. We have posted our preview downloads to Scribd for review by outside readers, and we still maintain our books and ebooks on Amazon and through their Kindle ereader. But we will continue to maintain the highest quality shopping experience for readers on our own.
     After reading of some of the problems associated with the iPad and other reading devices, we are disheartened to know that the bugs were never ironed out (as usual). It is much like what happened with Windows Vista. As our computers are powered by Windows XP, we have had little problems but some security firewall issues, but we have antivirus measures in place to deter spikes and other internet attacks, and we do all the work of creating our pages and internet promotions ourselves. For the last year we have had NO outages, and continue to keep to the same efficiencies and economies of scale we always have. To date our site monitoring people have seen no interruptions of access or download rates. If you have had any problems at all with the shopping cart, any buttons, or other issues involving site access, please email us at webmaster(at)antellus.com. Thank you for your kind attention. ♦

♦ March 14 Removing Amazon Links  When all was said and done, at the end of the day we decided to remove all active Amazon links until all the problems with the retailer could be resolved. The books and Kindle ebooks are still there, but we will no longer host the buttons. If you are a shopper who prefers to use Amazon, good luck to you, but you can get the books for less here. Also, our ebooks are in full color where applicable. We offer a PDF of a book FREE with every purchase of the print version, delivered direct into your inbox. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause Amazon users.
     Written In BLOOD has been pushed back yet again, owing to the complexity of the text and our addition of a series of b&w illustrations and maps. This will take time but we guarantee the end result will be worth the wait.

♦ March 7 Our Ebook Sale  In partnership with our ebook publisher Smashwords we are offering all our epub and other compatible formats for download at 25% off the list price. See our product pages for details. This sale is running from March 7 to 13, so be sure to act now!
♦ Tim Burton to Produce Vampire Mashup Film

♦ March 1 Brand NEW Changes In an effort to bring the best value to our customers we have introduced a new page called Book Bundles, where you can purchase whole packages of our books and PDF ebooks at reduced prices and shipping charges. We have divided them by the type and series. We also offer 1 each of the whole library for sale in a bundle at a reduced price and shipping. We have also introduced a Mail Order Form which you can fill out and email or snailmail your order direct to us. Either way, you can now take advantage of even more savings and you can send us a bank check or money order instead of going through PayPal if you prefer. Though we strongly urge you to use PayPal, we recognize that you might not want your information to be posted on the internet, or don't want to open an account. That is perfectly alright with us. All you have to do is follow the directions on the form and we will take care of the rest.

♦ February 25 A Few Site Changes  We have decided to streamline the site and feature only books and jewelry, to make it more navigable and because we are working on making more books available for the future. Check out our new Used Books page for some interesting items from Theresa's personal library for sale at bargain prices. "I am getting rid of some of my vast collection of science fiction and nonfiction books to make room for new purchases. Some of them have not been read or read rarely, so they are in good condition," she said. We may expand on this as some books come to us as abandoned by those who don't keep their books as a rule, and they are often in the genres we sponsor.
     ♦ We have taken down the Auction Page due to lack of bids on our first auction, which concluded on Feb. 23. The book has been moved to the USED BOOKS page as a result. We hope this will make your shopping experience more agreeable.

♦ February 22 NPR Covers Vampires! An "All Things Considered" Reporter posts a story about the list of 75 vampire books she is reading:For Love Of Vampires:A Bloody Book List.
     ♦ The publication of Written In BLOOD has been pushed back to March 5.
     ♦ Smashwords is supporting "Read An Ebook Week", with special prices. The event begins March 7 and ends at midnight March 13. We are offering our ebooks at 25% off only on their site during that time. To buy click on the link on any book product page where we have placed a dollar ($) sign. Hosted by EbookWeek.com

♦ February 2, 2010 We Are In The Auction Biz! Since our CEO Theresa has so many books she no longer looks at, and some recent acquisitions rescued from various places, we have set up an auction page for such sales. Please have a look. Our first item came to us today, and will be auctioned off over the next 14 days.

♦ January 29 Some Changes  Owing to a lack of interest in the fan art we had for sale we have discontinued our gallery and moved it. We have also changed and lowered the prices for our jewelry line effective today. Please take a look and you might find a nice gift for a loved one for Valentine's day for a price that won't break the bank.

♦ January 29 The Ten Percent Solution Coming to Amazon  In the wake of the settlement between Booklocker.com and Amazon, we have just obtained an ISBN for the book and it should be listed on Amazon.com soon. We will publish a link to the book page as soon as we have it.
     Meanwhile, we have just added links to our Smashwords listings for the greater convenience of our customers. Now you will be able to purchase and download our ebooks to your Sony eReader, iPhone, BlackBerry or Palm Pilot in addition to our PDF and Kindle offerings. Just look at the book page for each title of your interest. We regret that our illustrated books will not be offered through Smashwords, but look to our listings with Lulu, which has the full capability to store and download the full sized ebooks into your reader.

♦ January 20 Written In BLOOD Publication Moved to February  Even with the holiday season we had to move it back owing to the scope and size of the book and its plotline. Author Theresa M. Moore is working as hard as she can to finish it, but it does entail some serious research and organization, and she is creating illustrations for the new video to accompany it. We hope to have the print book published and released by the end of February, with a simultaneous release of the digital ebook.
     The 2nd edition of PRINCIPLES OF SELF-PUBLISHING, including new material on digital publishing, is the next book and to follow Written In BlOOD, and may be ready to release sometime in the spring.
      In the meantime, some of the other books planned for the season have also been rescheduled. We will announce their debuts as soon as they are ready to be released. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

♦ January 19 Antellus Departs DriveThruSciFi We tried for six months to sell our ebooks through them but it looks like their heart wasn't into it. We were patient, but it took too long. The majority of ebooks being sold by DTSF were of the gaming variety, and since we were aiming for fiction readers it did not take long for us to discover that their hype did not live up to the end result. So we bid them farewell and good luck in their endeavors, but if you want to read our ebooks we have them for sale right here in three different formats. Just visit our product pages.

♦ January 11 New videos!  Check out our YouTube channel to see them all, or visit our product pages.
     Why we no longer advertise on Craigslist. It is obvious that someone let the dogs out, and this unprofessional behavior on the moderators' part leads us to question their effectiveness as an advertising site in the first place. Last year, we had our book ads flagged and removed for no reason. We feel now that we were justified in our decision to drop them from our promotion program. If you are a book reader wanting to find our books on other sites, please be advised that we do pick and choose our advertisers and affiliates carefully. One of our criteria for advertising or placing ads with them is their professionalism. TROLLS

♦ January 8 Writers' Groups Take Aim At Google

♦ January 1, 2010 Welcoming The New Year
We are ready to greet the new developments in publishing and we are continuing in our new program. You may notice that most of the ad patches are gone, and we hope to make our site more navigable. In the next few months we will be publishing some exciting new titles, and our audiobooks will start appearing for sale in February. We are also exploring options to make our books available for iPod and iPhone through some new hosting sites. Watch our news updates.