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in the author's world. We hope you enjoy it.
Planning
New Title, "Cult"
Because
of the long lead-time required by traditional publishers, I
have decided to publish a completely new novel, Cult,
via the eBook and print-on-demand route. It was written a
couple of years back and never published.
But
the events of September 11th have prompted me to
publish. It is time people began to understand and take
seriously the threat posed by cults, their cynical and
manipulative leaders and the people who fall into their net.
Those who perpetrated the September 11th murders were
brainwashed and programmed to commit horrendous deeds on the
command of their megalomaniac leaders.
There
are thousands of cults in the United States and in many other
countries. They all employ the same tactics and are based on
the same principles of mind control and obedience. To most of
us, the process of brainwashing is a mystery.
Cult
is the story of a man trying to rescue his wife from an
imaginary cult and the impossible challenges he is forced to
confront. It is told through the eyes of his former lover, a
woman who doubts that such a mind control process really
exists. Aside from being a suspenseful read, it should provide
some insight into the phenomenon that shocked us out of our
complacency on September 11th.
With
a little luck the novel should be ready by Christmas. It will,
of course, be available through www.WarrenAdler.com
and on popular retailing sites.
eBooks
are Alive and Well
Anyone
who tells you that eBooks are expiring hasn't a clue to what's
happening in the world. I've just returned from Frankfurt
where I was one of the panelists at the Big
Questions Conference which explored the future of new
technologies and how they will impact the book business,
publishers and authors.
In
general terms, the answer lies in the question of time. There
was overall agreement that sometime in the future eBooks will
dominate the marketplace. The issue was "when."
Considering the new reader-friendly devices now rolling into
the marketplace and the exciting creative technologies
emerging, anyone writing off eBooks, like some of our friends
in the media, has their heads in the sand.
There
is, of course, a generational issue. People over 50 are still
emotionally attached to paper books but even that is changing
as more and more folks of that age discover the convenience of
handheld devices for transportability and reading. As we go
younger on the age scale, more and more people are coming into
the market and downloading and enjoying eBooks. "It's the
content stupid," to paraphrase that old campaign
chestnut.
As
the only author present and apparently the only author in the
world who has put all of his books in every eBook format
including print-on-demand (through both Ingram and Baker &
Taylor subsidiaries), I have already begun to see a revenue
flow emerging. I am particularly struck by the Palm experience
where sales are accelerating remarkably through Palm
Digital Media and Fictionwise.
It
is still too early to see how this bet of mine will play out
finally, but I can state unequivocally that books that have
lain fallow on the shelves of my library for years are now out
there finding new readers daily. A family of readers is
developing and, so far, I am gratified by the results.
Short
Stories Now Available
Fictionwise,
one of our e-tail outlets, is now offering my short stories to
readers as individual downloads. These stories are ones that I
wrote about the Washington scene when my wife Sunny edited the
Dossier Magazine, once the "bible" of social
life in the Nation's Capital. Some day I had hoped to
incorporate them in their own volume, but the new technology
has come along and given me an opportunity to share them with
others. Titles available at Fictionwise:
The
Grace of Her Exit
The
Democratic Family
Her
Moment
Playing
the Game
Random
Blurts (Read at your peril)
The
further away you get from Ground Zero, the more morally
self-righteous one's arguments.
Haruki
Murakami, the Japanese novelist interviewed in the New York
Times had it right. The world of surety (irrational
certainty) is far more comfortable than the more tentative
world of rational uncertainty, the real one.-But far more
dangerous.
Seen
any good movies lately? I haven't.
How
many of you watch Book TV on the weekends? Best stuff on TV.
How
to embarrass your veddy toney friends. Ask them to list the
last five books they've read.
And
ask yourself why you like Tony Soprano, a walking moral
nightmare, adulterer, liar, cheat, murderer . . . to name a
few of his more endearing qualities.
'till
next time WA
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