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Ratha's Courage E-released on Baen Books!
Released 4/9/08
This version is an electronic book, which means you purchase it, then download it into your laptop, Sony reader or other device. On sale now for $6.00.
To buy it from Baen Books, you need to get an account, which is free and easy.
Here's the link:
http://www.webscription.net/p-822-r.....s-courage.aspx
Baen's homepage is:
http://www.baen.com
Baen will have an exclusive on the book during April, then Amazon and Fictionwise http://www.fictionwise.com will be carrying it.
If Courage does well as an E-book, the next step is print publication.
Eeeeyarooo!
The other books in the series are Firebird re-issues and are available through the net and at bookstores.
My deepest thanks to everyone who made this happen, including E-Reads, Baen, and my agent, Richard Curtis.
CB
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UPDATE: 3/12/08
I just got an email from my agent, which said that E-Reads has linked up with Jim Baen Books. E-Reads will be bringing out one of the Baen titles in electronic form each month. They want to do Ratha's Courage as the April book, with an issue date of April 1 (no fooling, I hope!). That's 20 days from now
Since Crazysparkles06 on DeviantArt http://www.crazysparkles06.deviantart.com
wrote such a great journal about the Ratha series on 3/5/08, I thought I'd hustle a bit and put up some links. I'm also going to upload some of the sample chapters directly to D/A, if my solar-powered electrical system keeps running all day. I use a satellite link and it can draw a bit of power.
I've checked the links below and they should work.
For people who are curious about Ratha and the Named and want a taste, here are some links to sample chapters and excerpts.
Ratha's Courage chapter 1 teaser (first part of chapter): http://www.rathascourage.com/courage_teaser1
Large type version, for those who need it: http://www.rathascourage.com/ltcour_ch1.htm
First chapters of Ratha's Creature, Clan Ground, Ratha and Thistle-chaser, and (soon) Ratha's Challenge: http://www.rathascourage.com/chapters_online.htm
In large type: http://www.rathascourage.com/ltchapters_online.htm
Author blog, The Scratching Log:
http://www.rathascourage.com/scratchlog
which has "Ratha's Creatures" about the various prehistoric animals in the series. Updates on the status of the new book, Ratha's Courage. The blog also appears on the Amazon book pages and I have a profile there.
Thistle-chaser reprint cover and rough: http://www.rathascourage.com/thistle-chaser.htm
Main website (just updated!): http://www.rathascourage.com
Original website on Earthlink:
http://home.earthlink.net/~ratha13
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/rathacat
RathaTV on YouTube has a 16 part video set of the complete CBS Storybreak animated adaptation of Ratha's Creature. It also has 3-D animations of the character by the author, using Anim8tor.
http://www.youtube.com/rathacat
or user rathacat on YouTube.
Other sites:
User rathacat on
Goodreads, LiveJournal, LibraryThing, FurAffinity, Facebook and too many others.
Check out my gallery, which has the clay skull models of Dinaelurus crassus, Ratha's real ancestor, and Dinaelurus illumina sapiens, Ratha herself. Also step-by-step facial reconstruction of both.
(I would put them back in the Recent Deviations, but I haven't figured out how).
People who are trying to get Ratha's Courage through Amazon; it is not Amazon's fault. Viking-Penguin cancelled the book at the last minute. It will be available as an E-Reads E-book on Fictionwise.com
[http://www.fictionwise.com]. Later, it will be issued as a print book from one of E-Reads' affiliates. Amazon has kept the book up on its site because they will be carrying the E-Reads version.
For more info, see the journal entry, Ratha's Courage - Hope Burns Brighter, Dec 7, 2007.
Ratha's Creature now (3/7/2008) has 42 five-star Amazon customer reviews. Thank you to all the people who posted them!
Now if you want to give the other books a little help, especially Ratha's Challenge, which doesn't have any, please feel free.
Thanks to Sparkle, who gave me some much-needed motivation!
Updates:
Links to the clay model skulls and facial reconstructions:
Ratha, fictional species Dinaelurus illumina sapiens http://www.rathascourage.com/research.htm
Her real ancestor, Dinaelurus crassus
http://www.rathascourage.com/d_cras.....nstruction.htm
Last time I updated rathascourage.com, the text on the homepage got a bit scrambled. I will be fixing it tonight.
CB
Released 4/9/08
This version is an electronic book, which means you purchase it, then download it into your laptop, Sony reader or other device. On sale now for $6.00.
To buy it from Baen Books, you need to get an account, which is free and easy.
Here's the link:
http://www.webscription.net/p-822-r.....s-courage.aspx
Baen's homepage is:
http://www.baen.com
Baen will have an exclusive on the book during April, then Amazon and Fictionwise http://www.fictionwise.com will be carrying it.
If Courage does well as an E-book, the next step is print publication.
Eeeeyarooo!
The other books in the series are Firebird re-issues and are available through the net and at bookstores.
My deepest thanks to everyone who made this happen, including E-Reads, Baen, and my agent, Richard Curtis.
CB
l
UPDATE: 3/12/08
I just got an email from my agent, which said that E-Reads has linked up with Jim Baen Books. E-Reads will be bringing out one of the Baen titles in electronic form each month. They want to do Ratha's Courage as the April book, with an issue date of April 1 (no fooling, I hope!). That's 20 days from now
Since Crazysparkles06 on DeviantArt http://www.crazysparkles06.deviantart.com
wrote such a great journal about the Ratha series on 3/5/08, I thought I'd hustle a bit and put up some links. I'm also going to upload some of the sample chapters directly to D/A, if my solar-powered electrical system keeps running all day. I use a satellite link and it can draw a bit of power.
I've checked the links below and they should work.
For people who are curious about Ratha and the Named and want a taste, here are some links to sample chapters and excerpts.
Ratha's Courage chapter 1 teaser (first part of chapter): http://www.rathascourage.com/courage_teaser1
Large type version, for those who need it: http://www.rathascourage.com/ltcour_ch1.htm
First chapters of Ratha's Creature, Clan Ground, Ratha and Thistle-chaser, and (soon) Ratha's Challenge: http://www.rathascourage.com/chapters_online.htm
In large type: http://www.rathascourage.com/ltchapters_online.htm
Author blog, The Scratching Log:
http://www.rathascourage.com/scratchlog
which has "Ratha's Creatures" about the various prehistoric animals in the series. Updates on the status of the new book, Ratha's Courage. The blog also appears on the Amazon book pages and I have a profile there.
Thistle-chaser reprint cover and rough: http://www.rathascourage.com/thistle-chaser.htm
Main website (just updated!): http://www.rathascourage.com
Original website on Earthlink:
http://home.earthlink.net/~ratha13
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/rathacat
RathaTV on YouTube has a 16 part video set of the complete CBS Storybreak animated adaptation of Ratha's Creature. It also has 3-D animations of the character by the author, using Anim8tor.
http://www.youtube.com/rathacat
or user rathacat on YouTube.
Other sites:
User rathacat on
Goodreads, LiveJournal, LibraryThing, FurAffinity, Facebook and too many others.
Check out my gallery, which has the clay skull models of Dinaelurus crassus, Ratha's real ancestor, and Dinaelurus illumina sapiens, Ratha herself. Also step-by-step facial reconstruction of both.
(I would put them back in the Recent Deviations, but I haven't figured out how).
People who are trying to get Ratha's Courage through Amazon; it is not Amazon's fault. Viking-Penguin cancelled the book at the last minute. It will be available as an E-Reads E-book on Fictionwise.com
[http://www.fictionwise.com]. Later, it will be issued as a print book from one of E-Reads' affiliates. Amazon has kept the book up on its site because they will be carrying the E-Reads version.
For more info, see the journal entry, Ratha's Courage - Hope Burns Brighter, Dec 7, 2007.
Ratha's Creature now (3/7/2008) has 42 five-star Amazon customer reviews. Thank you to all the people who posted them!
Now if you want to give the other books a little help, especially Ratha's Challenge, which doesn't have any, please feel free.
Thanks to Sparkle, who gave me some much-needed motivation!
Updates:
Links to the clay model skulls and facial reconstructions:
Ratha, fictional species Dinaelurus illumina sapiens http://www.rathascourage.com/research.htm
Her real ancestor, Dinaelurus crassus
http://www.rathascourage.com/d_cras.....nstruction.htm
Last time I updated rathascourage.com, the text on the homepage got a bit scrambled. I will be fixing it tonight.
CB
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