Huzzah! The Read an eBook Week website informs us that:

March is now Read an E-book Month in Canada.

What an auspicious time to finally launch my debut novel “Inconstant Moon” in eBook form. I’ll let you know where and when it will be available here as soon as its ready.

In the meantime, check out the Read an eBook Week site for ways to promote eReading.

If you are an eBook neophyte like me, there are also a variety of online eReaders that you can download so you can read eBooks on your computer. My eBook month goal is to get some free eReader software like FBReader working on my Android phone.

Because there is an ever growing library of public domain eBooks that are available for anyone to read.

When I was in high school in the 1970′s I fell in love with Alexandre Dumas’ “The Three Musketeers.” Although it took some doing, my local library made it possible to get copies of the four sequels, so I was able to read them all. In the years since, I have been searching for print copies for my own personal library, yet I have only ever managed to find two of the books. Yet thanks to eBook technology, I have now found all five of the Muskateers books in digital editions on web-books.com Yay!

There are a growing number of other places to find public domain eBooks available for download online. I look forward to checking through through the MobileRead Site where they have a large collection of works, including a stock of Edgar Rice Burroughs fiction that I’ve not read in decades.

Of course Project Gutenberg set the standard, and has been digitizing public domain eBooks since the 1970′s. There is also a Canadian Project Gutenberg, which is where I found the excellent Canadian historical novel, “The Trail of the Conestoga”

Happy eReading!

“Everything always takes longer than I think it will.” — Laurel L. Russwurm

“Inconstant Moon” is both my debut novel and my first foray into 21st Century self publishing. This has been very much been a a learning experience for me, and has taken much longer than I anticipated. Naturally I’ve been keeping track of the tribulations as I figure out best practices, with a view to sharing the lessons I’ve learned here.

One of the most important things I’ve done for my debut novel has been to build an Inconstant Moon serialization blog. Now that the serialization is complete, I’ve been busy creating special features. This has been a lot of fun, but it is also a lot of work for a one woman shop.

When I began writing this novel, I had a lovely photograph of the moon that I thought would make fine illustration to be used in the cover art. I must confess that I had been trying unsuccessfully to take a decent photograph of the moon for most of my life, and so I was quite pleased with the photo. It had actually been taken in daylight, so in essence it would be used as a “day-for-night” shot. But since I wanted additional moon photographs to illustrate the serializion, I’ve since been trying to photograph the moon even more diligently.

And so now, along with a few arty cloud and crescent moon shots, I have finally figured out how to take a fairly decent shot of the moon that actually has some definition of the surface of the moon.

Which of course makes my original moon photograph look… sad. Naturally, I have to update and replace the old photograph of the moon. This is for the eBook, and the print art is currently in re-development as well.

Below you can see the original eBook cover art alongside the new improved eBook art. You can click on the images to see a larger version.

So what do you think?