Earth Stands Still: Smith Publishes Book at Smashwords!

Here's the Smashwords site, where The Prey sells for the astounding price of $1.98USD. Hurry before it goes up a penny, or possibly two pennies--you know what inflation can do!

For those of you contemplating publishing on this site, it's not difficult to meet the formatting requirements--Mark Coker's free ebook explains what you have to do. Basically, it's a matter of simplifying things as much as possible.

The cover, however, was, for me, a different matter, and that's not Smashwords's fault. It was basically the story of an epic battle between me and the gods of pixels, resolution and physical dimensions on Photoshop. I ate an entire bag of chocolate-covered almonds while trying to work this one out. It took hours and hours. At one point I had to take a break from pulling my hair out and relax for awhile by watching a documentary on tanks in the Battle of the Bulge.

Anyway, it's over, and I found this intriguing site, which features chocolate airplanes. And for those of you who insist on being healthy, here on the Stephen Cooks! site is a recipe for buttered rutabagas, complete with a picture of the end product.

And here is a book about freight trains to while away the boring hours while your rutabagas cook and butter themselves.

If you have any questions about the universe, ask a rutabaga. Or go and find a rare and radiant maiden, and ask her to cast some light on the subject.

Nevermore!