Cupid and the Silent Goddess
Recently, novelist Alan Fisk contacted Coxsoft Art to inform me that Bronzino's allegorical painting Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time is the basis for his latest novel: Cupid and the Silent Goddess, a fictional account of the creation of this masterpiece. Award-winning historical novelist Elizabeth Chadwick describes Alan's novel as a "witty and entertaining romp set in the seedy world of Italian Renaissance artists". You can read Chapter 1 or download it (Adobe Acrobat format) at Twenty First Century Publishers.com. The complete novel is also available as an e-book. Click the title link.
Alan, please let me know how you get on with e-book publishing. Does it expand your readership and bring in good money? Or is merely a fashionable publishing tryout, of scant worth to writers? Library sales are the bread-and-butter for authors whose novels don't shoot into orbit like Dan Brown's hokum, and libraries don't buy e-books. So....
posted by Unknown @ 2.6.06
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Sounds like another customer for Alan. Great! As for Brown, if there's one thing more farcical than his hokum, it's that Christians are questioning their faith because of it! Wouldn't it be better to reject religion by applying logic and rationalty to it, rather than by accepting the plot of some trite page-turner?
previous comment from Coxsoft Art = "we are not rational beings, we are driven by emotion!"
True. Look how many people are religious, and it's completely ittational. Yung reckoned we had an inbuilt need for religion - a sort of instinct for it -, but then he would think that, because his uncles were all vicars or bishops.
Cupid and the Silent Goddess has also recently been made available as an e-book. It has been available for a couple of years as a "traditional" printed book from the publishers and from online and ordinary bookshops via the print-on-demand method (that is, copies aren't printed until they've been ordered).
I must admit that I haven't had any sales in the e-book format for those of my other novels that were made available in that way as well as in the form of printed books.
I suspect that e-books won't take off in a big way until we get some kind of truly portable computer, for which reading books will be only of many uses to which it can be put. Many different kinds of reader for e-books have been produced, but none of them has proved popular.
Thanks for the information, Alan. Most of my reading is done on the bus or in bed before I go to sleep. Those hi-tech Japs will have to work hard to create an e-book reader that will be OK for me. Still, it never hurts to be in on the ground floor of something new. If it takes off....
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