PNTP on Florida Book News

Last week I received an email from a friend, a writer friend named Holly Fox Vellekoop. She (like me) has a number of interesting titles and a website where you can go to find out more. But this isn’t about that, it’s about something else. Help. We authors have to stick together in our battle to break through and it was Holly who suggested that I contact Lou Belcher.

Lou Belcher runs a website called Florida Book News, dedicated to getting the word out about the latest work coming from the creative minds here in the Sunshine State. She invited me to submit “Positives & Negatives, Tricycles & Pancakes,” and viola . . . now it’s posted.

So when it’s time to take a break from all the festivities of this holiday season, take a moment to check out www.floridabooknews.com and some of the other featured authors.

Thank you Lou and Holly.

Happy New Year to all.

–Davyd

Feverishly at Work

It’s the week before Christmas and I’ve been feverishly at work trying to get the print version of “Positives & Negatives, Tricycles & Pancakes,” ready for publishing. Being new in the business, I thought it would be easy. I assumed, and I think not unreasonably so, that with a fully edited and published eBook, the print book would be a piece of cake. Just upload the file and click print, right? Oh contraire . . .

Maybe it was because I published electronically first, then went to print, or maybe it was just naiveté (probably the later), but print books require a completely different set of formatting techniques to obtain a good, professional looking product. What presents well on a reader looks terrible on a page, and vice-versa. Everything from fonts, to headers, to page numbers, to cover art, even front matter, are all handled differently. And I had to learn it one mistake at a time.

Well. It was a tough row to hoe but at long last, it’s done, and just in time for the holidays. Shooo! The print version of PNTP is finally available so check it out at www.LDavydPollack.com

Happy Holidays.

-Davyd

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No Kindle, No Problem

Just a reminder. If you don’t have a Kindle (I love mine), you can download a free Kindle app for your phone by clicking the Kindle for Android button at the bottom of my home page www.LDavydPollack.com

Then you can download See Jane. By the way, short stories are custom built to read on smart phones—less page turning.

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Time is Running Out

After all the Thanksgiving sales and Black Friday bargains, at a time of year when everybody wants to take your money, I’m going to take the opportunity to offer you something for free. Today, Cyber Monday is your last chance to download free of charge, “See Jane,” a short story about Jane Arch, a businesswoman extraordinaire who has it all, and is willing to do anything it takes to keep it.

So put away those credit cards and take a moment for yourself. Visit www.LDavydPollack.com and click the “See Jane” buttons. Two clicks (maybe three) should get you there. And if you like Jane, check out the other stories I have available, you know, when you get a chance . . .

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