reading on paper (part two)

Update: The final parts of The College Murder Case are up, starting here. Please don’t let it distract you from the exciting announcement below.

A Sane Woman is in print!

As I indicated here, I’ve been very happy with lulu.com, and here is the result. An actual book, portable, easy to read, with a very nice cover. It’s sturdier than a Kindle, too.

Here’s the blurb:

A Sane Woman is a mystery story. First, we’ll meet the characters, including a proofreader, a school teacher, a famous novelist, a successful lawyer, and two teenage girls, one a record store clerk and the other a runaway. And then they’ll start to vanish, one by one.

The detective is named Jan Sleet, but she doesn’t come in until toward the end, with her trusted assistant Marshall. And when she solves it, it’s because she’s really trying to solve a very different mystery instead.

If you like it, please tell your friends (or order copies for them – everybody likes to get presents). If you don’t care for it, recommend it to your friends anyway. Their tastes might be different.

Here is the link to order: http://www.lulu.com/content/2274007.

Also, as I mentioned here, the mystery stories I’m currently writing are now available in single files, easily printable. Just go here. The College Murder Case will be added as soon as it’s complete, which may be within this week.

On another subject, I read this in The New Yorker, and then this on wikipedia.

As somebody now entering his 19th year of writing novels online, posting each part as soon as it is complete, I’m glad this is finally catching on. I wonder what took so long.

Not that I have any desire to write on a cell phone. (Of course, as I think of it, I am writing this on a Palm, so I guess that’s not that different after all.)