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Telecommunications Technician, Writer,
Editor, Jack of All Trades
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Carl Bussjaeger Telecommunications Technician, Writer, Editor, Jack of All Trades |
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Near Space Press Releasing Net Assets April 23, 2010
My own comments follow the press release.
From Near Space Press: Carl Bussjaeger's novel, "Net Assets" available as Kindle eBook, 4/23/2010 That's right, we've finally gotten the kinks worked out and it will be available as a Kindle ebook on Friday, April 23rd through Amazon. For pre-orders (starting Monday or Tuesday) through Saturday, April 24th (4/24/2010), the price will be $7.99 as a 'release day' special. After that, the price goes to $9.99. We've specified no DRM on the ebook and it's in the AZW format (akin to the Mobipocket .Mobi/.PRC format) so any device that can read Kindle ebooks can open this ebook. There will be free sample chapters as well, (the first five chapters). We're also going to offer it through FiFo.com in .ePub format the following week with the same price. Following that release, we'll be offering a Trade Paperback (TPB) version (6" x 9") through Amazon with a release date of May, 15th, 2010 (5/15/2010) for a price of $15.99. Carl has also written numerous short stories for various online newletters and we're in the process of gathering them together into an anthology with the title "The Anarchists". This anthology will be released through Amazon and FiFo on May 15th as well, with the TPB version coming available through Amazon on June 1st. Same prices apply. Now that Carl has fully published his novel and anthology through Near Space Press (that would be me), he hopes to finish the other two stories in the "Net Assets" saga, starting with "Bargaining Position". Please help inspire him to complete these other works by buying "Net Assets" and "The Anarchists". On that note, let me state that while Near Space Press is looking for libertarian science fiction and fantasy works, I will also consider libertarian works in other categories such as Suspense/Thriller, Mystery, Alternative History, mainstream fiction and even non-fiction works. If you've got a good story that's been making the rounds of the major publishers and they keep rejecting it because it doesn't fit their progressive belief system, toss a copy my way. I prefer a zipped file containing a Word-formatted document of the piece (Please, no wildly outrageous fonts and formatting, the default Word settins work best.), a cover letter/inquiry and a good synopsis of the work—this latter should be in the form of several paragraphs discussing what happens in each chapter; one page worth works best.
Derek Benner
Carl adds,
This has been a long road; longer even than many of the people who cheered me on may realize. The history of Net Assets goes back to the mid-'90s. I had an idea for a science fiction novel (not NA). I started writing it. It was a stand alone tale, but I gave a lot of thought to the back story; I made a lot of notes to keep straight in my own head how that future came to be. Some of those notes grew into a short story.
After reading that short story, Don Lobo Tiggre, told me it was interesting, but that it should really be a whole novel. I agreed, and the short story turned into NA, a prequel to the novel I intended to write.
Finding a publisher for Net Assets wasn't easy. Baen Books' response was pretty typical of the established print house: Nada. Zip. Nothing. Silence. Couldn't even be bothered to return an empty SASE I enclosed with the manuscript.
So I tried self-publishing an e-book version. That flopped due to a lack of proper marketing and P2P pirates.
But NA did win Free-Market.net's Freedom Book of the Month. And garnered a Prometheus nomination. Not bad. Baen's loss, I figure.
And the novel I started with? That's called Bargaining Position, which Mr. Benner mentioned. I'm working on the final draft. The other story he mentioned goes by Caveat Emptor; it's outlined, and I'm three chapters into it.
NA, BP, and CE aren't a true trilogy in the sense of telling one extended story. They stand alone, but do take place in the same fictional universe. You'll see some recurring characters, too.
But I may play around the NA world some more. I think the story of the Battle of the Moon needs to be told one of these days.
Well, back to BP. Got some writing to do.
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