{"id":1773,"date":"2013-05-21T14:47:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T18:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2013-05-21T14:47:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T18:47:21","slug":"two-new-paperback-books-from-matthew-hughes-and-sort-of-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/21\/two-new-paperback-books-from-matthew-hughes-and-sort-of-from-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new paperback books from Matthew Hughes and (sort of) from me"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zme-caps.amazon.com\/asset\/SSE\/content\/4289981\/THUMBNAIL_IMAGE?versionId=1&#038;awsClient=416214191754%3Auser%2FMainsite&#038;urlMethod=GET&#038;expires=1369167615233&#038;sig=c844dd6ecb3254f8c7d708cca168e59459bea9a899b18b718047e376c8a7b729&#038;serial=1\" alt=\"\" width=0 height=0\/>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ve mentioned from time to time that I built a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewhughes.org\/\">web site<\/a> for Matthew Hughes, author of the Archonate novels and stories &#8211; and more &#8211; like <em>Majestrum<\/em>, <em>The Spiral Labyrinth<\/em>, and <em>Hespira<\/em>.\n<\/p><p>\nI may have also mentioned that I&#8217;ve been formatting his backlist and new anthologies as eBooks, which he sells on his site.\n<\/p><p>\nBut because I&#8217;m a books-are-made-of-paper kind of guy it&#8217;s always been my secret hope that Hughes would try publishing his books as print-on-demand paperbacks.<\/p><p>Why? Because the eBook formats are more crude than web pages are, that&#8217;s why, and if I&#8217;m going to design a book I want it to look its best.<\/p>\n\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;float:right;margin-left:12px;margin-top:8px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=webomator-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0988107856&#038;asins=0988107856&#038;linkId=S5YEINUVYOWSPZGD&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\">\n<\/iframe>\n\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;float:left;margin-right:12px;margin-top:8px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=webomator-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0988107864&#038;asins=0988107864&#038;linkId=TIZ2EGZKFFDIDQD3&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\">\n<\/iframe>\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:12px;\">So you can imagine how happy I am that he&#8217;s taken the plunge into self-published paperbacks. I got to lay out the interiors and covers (though the cover illustrations aren&#8217;t mine) and I&#8217;m very happy with the way they&#8217;ve turned out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still working on the section of his site that will sell the paperbacks directly. But for now I encourage you to have a look at them at Amazon through these links. <em>Nine Tales of Henghis Hapthorn<\/em> already has its &#8220;Look Inside&#8221; previews; <em>The Meaning of Luff and Other Stories <\/em> is a couple of days younger and its previews aren&#8217;t yet ready as I write this.<\/p>\n\n<p>I could tell you how well I like Hughes&#8217; work. I could probably tell you until you started rolling your eyes. But who listens to <em>me?<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>Listen to this guy:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n\u201cHapthorn&#8217;s picaresque adventures, an adroit blend of SF and fantasy, pay homage both to Vance&#8217;s Dying Earth fantasies and his classic Demon Princes future history&#8230; A tremendous amount of fun.\u201d\n<cite><em>George R. R. Martin<\/em><\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve mentioned from time to time that I built a web site for Matthew Hughes, author of the Archonate novels and stories &#8211; and more &#8211; like Majestrum, The Spiral Labyrinth, and Hespira. I may have also mentioned that I&#8217;ve been formatting his backlist and new anthologies as eBooks, which he sells on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}