Yay for technology! While the paperback version of The Author is still crawling along on the slow road to availability, the eBook version came through in a big way today. If you have an Amazon Kindle, iPod Touch or iPhone, you can start reading The Author on it in less than a minute! Even better, Amazon has knocked 20% off the price of the book so if you buy early, you can save big.

If you have an Amazon Kindle, you can search for Hillary DePiano and download this book right away and start reading.

If you have an iPod Touch or iPhone, first make sure that you have the free Amazon Kindle app. Once you’ve downloaded that app and have it set up, go ahead and purchase this book through the link below:

Within minutes, the book will be available to read on your phone or iPod. Better yet, if you own both an iPhone/iPod Touch and a Kindle, the app will keep track of where you left off in the book between both devices. Pretty cool, eh?

Stay tuned for information about the paperback. It looks like Amazon is going to start taking pre-order for it as early as next week so let’s keep our finders crossed.

(I am trying to keep all my marketing at half-mast until the paperback is out when I can go full steam. But, boy is it annoying. Each time another version becomes available, I want to start to sell the book now, darn it!)

Man, I don’t blog for days and then I bombard you, don’t I? Sorry about so many posts in a row but I am going to be really busy at the end of the week so I am trying to front load all this promotion stuff for The Author now so I am less swamped later.

So after much ballyhoo I managed to create a teaser trailer for The Author. Please keep your expectations low. I had no actors and only Microsoft Movie Maker with which to throw this together so while I am impressed that it came out as good as it did, it is pretty basic. I recommend watching it small as the starts to get grainy when it’s made bigger.

There will hopefully be a second teaser trailer available tomorrow. It depends on whether my Eugene will have time to record his part on his day off.

Please take a moment to view this below and let me know what you think. Nice, high star ratings on YouTube are welcome as well.

So I have been waiting rather (im)patiently for The Author Kindle Edition to show on Amazon which it should be doing any moment now and I am not afraid to admit that I was doing a little bit of obsessive refreshing of the Amazon search results with the vigor of a 3 year old chanting “Are we there yet?” when I came upon something cool.

Magic Words: A Dictionary by Craig Conley quotes The Love of Three Oranges. Specifically, under the definition of “poof” appears the following illustrative quote:

“She laughs triumphantly, then disappears in a poof of smoke.” -Hillary DePiano, The Love of Three Oranges (2003)

If you want to see this for yourself, follow this link, click “Search Inside this Book” and then search for my name. I totally just put in an order for this book because, heck, being quoted alongside J. K. Rowling and Shakespeare is not only cool but will be a nice ego boost on days when I am feeling like slime.

Now, I am sorry to say, when I first noticed this quote, my husband and I had an exchange as follows.

Me: You know, now that I read that, I think I probably meant puff of smoke.
Husband: No, you totally meant poof. You were referring to the sound as well as the visual.

It is never a good sign when someone else has to tell you what you meant. However, I think he’s right because now that he said that, that does sound like something I would do. Still, I’m not 100% convinced it wasn’t typo. But even if it was, I totally can’t change it now so let’s go with my husband and assume I did it on purpose. I wrote TLOTO so long ago anything is possible. My brain also works in weird ways.

Let’s all just start saying “poof of smoke” and maybe no one will notice.

Though, honestly, if someone was going to quote Three Oranges I was really pulling for someone to quote my personal favorite quote from the play which is, of course:

“Move a log. Go nuts.” -Hillary DePiano, The Love of Three Oranges (2003)

Sadly, until there is a list of World’s Most Sarcastic Stage Directions, I may be out of luck.