In Her Name: First Contact - Now Available in Print on Amazon
Yay! In Her Name: First Contact is now available in print on Amazon! It took about a week from being cleared by the printer to showing up in the catalog, but it’s there and available for purchase. If you haven’t already, please be sure to check out the free sample chapters. Enjoy!

In Her Name: Empire - Now Available as an eBook at Barnes & Noble
It’s my pleasure to announce that the first of the books of the In Her Name series - In Her Name: Empire - is now available on Barnes and Noble as a multi-format eBook! B&N eBooks can be read on a variety of platforms, including iPhone/iPod Touch, Blackberry, PC, Macs, and other devices. And, of course, it’s available on B&N’s new reading device, the Nook. So, if you haven’t already, check it

Wi-Fi Connectivity Problems with the Acer Aspire One Netbook
Just a little note for those of you who may have an Acer Aspire One netbook and are having connectivity problems with your home or other wi-fi networks under Windows XP: update your drivers! I like to play around between Windows and Ubuntu Netbook Remix (Linux) on my Aspire One, and one thing that came to light was that when I was in Windows, the network connection would be intermittent, at best. I could connect, but then after a few minutes I couldn’t reach the internet: the network indicator still said I was connected to the wi-fi network, but that was it. I couldn’t get anywhere. The only solution was to disconnect and then reconnect from the network. That

The Proof Copy For In Her Name: First Contact Is On Its Way
The first proof copy for In Her Name: First Contact is on its way from Lightning Source, Inc. - yay! I’m not sure when it will get here, but hopefully soon. Once I review it and it gets approved, it should be available for purchase on Amazon, B&N, and a bunch of other sites, although

Adding Your Book to Amazon’s Search Inside! Program
If you’ve perused Amazon’s bookstore, you’ve no doubt seen the Search Inside! feature, where you can see samples of the book. For independent publishers and authors, here’s the trick to add this nifty marketing feature to the Amazon catalog pages for your printed books (note: you do not need this for Kindle books). Before I go further, if you used Amazon’s CreateSpace, you’re already set: you need do nothing extra for the Search Inside! feature to be added. That’s part of the CreateSpace “package,” which is definitely nice. If you’re using an independent printe