Just this week, Publisher’s Daily announced the purchase by Amazon of the Stanza format for e-Books.  Stanza format is used to enable IPhone e-Book reading.   You can read the article at Publishers Daily by clicking on the link.

How good is e-Book reading on the IPhone?  Pretty darn.  There is a fair amount of scrolling, but the font size can be changed and so worries concerning the type being too small are addressed.  You can also read black on white, or white on black and the IPhone will display color images.

Several of our authors have made booktrailer videos for their stories at Aspen Mountain Press and we are excited to share that we are embedding these videos to give our readers more about what the stories are about.

Who is Offing the Collectors

Cougar Club: Barely Legal

The Reckoning of Asphodel

Breaking the Covenant

The Long Way Home

Del Fantasma: Virgin Special

Scarred

Stop by and take a look at the trailers and pick up an earth friendly e-Book!

Character emotions remain some of the trickiest writing there is.  All too often authors fall prey to cliche phrases and dilute their writing by telling us what emotion we are supposed to be experiencing, rather than showing us what the character is going through.

In Creating Character Emotions by Ann Hood, authors are provided with a new way of expressing character emotions.  How?  Ms. Hood gives practical exercises drawing upon the author’s memories of experiencing the emotion being discussed.

The book is organized by emotions and then three poor examples are given with an explanation of why they are poor.  The author then follows up with three good examples and explanation.  Finally, she provides the reader with three exercises to write so the reader can create fresh writing for the emotion. (more…)