Marc Comtois

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. ~ Steven Wright

I'm happy to announce that Burgundians in the Mist is now available in a variety of e-book formats --including Kindle , Epub (supports Nook, Sony, etc.) and even PDF --for only $2.99! The neat thing about the Kindle version is that the footnotes are hypertext, so you can select a note, read the supporting sources and notes and then return to the main text. You can still purchase a dead-tree version for $8.99 via the publisher (more $ for me!) or Amazon.com . Thanks to those of you who have purchased BitM already and please let me know what you think!

The book is now available at Amazon.com and will be available at other online retailers soon.  Next up: getting it into e-book form.

DONE! Buy a copy today!

3rd and hopefully last proof on the way.  Formatting issues, particularly pagination, vex me.  Mostly having to do with MS Word's method of doing page numbers. There has to be a more straightforward method, Microsoft.  By trying to be an uber-publishing software, you made what should be a simple requirement too confusing with your different page breaks, odd/even page numbering, etc.  I didn't have these problems in the 1990's.

As the first season of the HBO series based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series 1st book ( A Game of Thrones ) reaches it's climax, I've been re-reading the series in anticipation of the of the 5th book, A Dance with Dragons , set to be released in July. I just started the 4th book, A Feast for Crows , and, because I've read them one after another, have been struck--well, "jarred" is more like it--by the way Martin chose to open the 4th book with completely new POV characters in locales either only briefly visited (the Iron Islands) or never visited (Dorne).  It was an interesting gamble and, so far, I have to agree with this blogger : I don't think it works. But in AFFC George has got us going on a sight-seeing trip all over the goshdanged place, from one "exotic" locale to another. We're reading stories about characters we've only just met and don't give a fig about, and the whole thing has gone from the tal...

Proofed the first proof.  Changed formatting of footnotes, added, some blank pages, re-did Index, re-worked the Intro. Re-submitted, approved and now...another proof is on the way. Hopefully this will be OK.