It’s up there. Go ye forth, get Jane’s free offer of the first volume of the ‘Netwalkers duology, Partners—and the short story, and the third Rusalka book. Enjoy! We’ve had electronic adventures—whenever you deal with a file involving Wesley, who is a computer geek and prankster—you’re in for it. ๐
But all’s well. Let us know if there are any problems we didn’t catch. And wish Jane a happy birthday!
I shall do just that. Thank you very much, guys!
If I may, I’d suggest you change the links from the “news” to links to the “product’s pages rather than to a bigger image.
Jane says thank you: she groks, and has fixed. Basically, look for a WHITE BOX. If we adjust the price in the products page, it’s technically harder to reset.
Thank her, it’s much easier that way ๐ Found and bought the short story.
Happy Birthday to Jane of course !!
I posted over in Jane’s blog. I’ll let you both know how the file transfer (laptop to iPad) goes after I’ve done that later today. ๐ I’ve done it before, but it’s been a little while.
AND NOTE! Jane’s free download is in a WHITE BOX on the home page. Go there!
All downloaded; my Kindle and I are very happy. It looks like it’s going to be a good day! The problem is deciding where to start.
***DELIBERATIONS: MILD SPOILER ALERT***
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Purchased all three about 12:45 this morning (PDT). Stayed up and read your short story “Deliberations”. It was great! The timeline was a little confusing as I guess I had always assumed that Wilson-paidhi left and Bren became paidhi as soon as Valasi was assasinated, and that Bren had only been in office for months when the events in Foreigner took place. I didn’t realize that Tabini had been underage when Valasi demised. Looking back, I can’t tell you why I thought that. Questions remain: What was Valasi’s father’s (Ilisidi’s spouse’s) name? What was Tabini’s mother’s name? The politics are stellar!
P.S. I may have missed the names as I was very tired when I started the story and ripped through it, fully expecting to re-read it this weekend after I get through Yvgenie, and NetWalkers Omnibus.
P.P.S. On my Kindle (early 2nd generation)on the home page your name is displayed as lower case without your initials. When I sort by author, Deliberations is two pages away from the rest of your Closed Circle books. I think there are three different ways you are displayed: cherryh, C.J. Cherryh, and C. J. Cherryh. Netwalkers: Omnibus has an apostrophe before the title and isn’t listed near NETWALKERSHarmonies listed as by J.S. Fancher rather than Jane S. Fancher. Suggest you revisit all your books and standardize on an order that allows all your books to be found together (the books I’ve purchased from Amazon show up in a third chunk). With 34 pages of books and stories on my Kindle it is difficult to find your books and ‘NetWalkers: Omnibus will always be the first listed on my Kindle when I sort by Title while the rest of Jane’s NetWalkers are 19 pages in….
Thanks Ready. Very valid observation/suggestion. I’ve been trying to sort my head enough to get all the extant books standardized. There are so many places these things sneak in and Calibre used to have a real problem with the leading apostrophe. Now that I’m adjusting the meta in Sigil, I can make them all behave. I finally have a strong enough grasp of all aspects of the epub file (which is the main book file…the mobi is constructed off of that) to get it done.
Been there, blew my book budget for the month and got the Rusalka trilogy, the Foreigner short story, and Jane’s freebie. The covers for the Rusalka books are all three gorgeous, but I have to say, the one for Rusalka is truly magnificent!
Having an inhouse cover artist makes things so much more greater, sez WOL quite ungramatically, albeit sincerely.
Thank you!
The Rusalka cover on the downloaded file is still the old one. I’ve got a thankyou prezzie to make tomorrow, but I’m going to get at updating files right away to get the new covers in and the standardized Meta data taken care of. When they’re all done, I’ll put a notice all over teh place and people can request a download that will generate links for all books they’ve purchased.
We suddenly realize the new cover for Rusalka didn’t yet make it into the download—as soon as we recover from this marathon, we will have that fixed, and anybody who bought the old cover, who wants a download with that cover, just contact us and we’ll give you a new link.
WRONG! See my above comment. We’ll get ALL the files updated with new covers, than you can ask the robot to generate all your new links at once. Cherryh…you’re getting me a workload problem! ๐
Loved “Deliberations”. It was everything I anticipated and then some. Very much looking forward to the next book.
Got the three russian books, the Foreigner short story and Jane’s free download! Yay!! I did however do it last nite at about 1 am, and went off to bed since I was a bit tuckered from karaoking too, but today, I’m getting ready to read, read, read! From the brief glance I took last nite via PDF, the font in my reader is rather hard to read. Any suggestions to make the font clearer? Thanks!
Your PDF reader should have a magnifying glass or a plus sign to make the font larger. OR, hit CTrl AND the plus sign on your computer at the same time and it should enlarge everything on your computer screen. Ctrl AND minus reverses that. The plus and minus with Ctrl are like the magic mushroom in Alice in Wonderland. ๐
So sorry! Is it on all books or only one? Is it hard because it’s too small? PDF embeds fonts and not all our books use the same default font. It would help to know which book we’re talking about. ๐
Ohhhh, and happy birthday to Jane! ๐
Well! I think I really need to read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland now. Or at least listen to “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane….
*NO* problems with Closed Circle. All is fine with the ebooks I purchased and downloaded. And I now have those loaded (and reloaded!) into Kindle for iPad. Yay!
I’ve just spent an inordinate amount of time trying to convince my iPad to sync with my laptop instead of my (temporarily?) defunct desktop tower. It never did succeed, and whatever the problem is, it’s not with this user. I did get it to upload the new ebooks into Kindle for iPad. It did not do any of the things it was supposed to do otherwise, though. What it reported was…alternately completely looney wrong or imaginary…and (probably thankfully) it didn’t do anything to create a problem. In trying to remedy it, *I* deleted some things, such as my Audible playlist. (No great loss, I can get that back somehow, and the bogus sync didn’t delete my audiobooks currently on the iPad.) (I was expecting to have to redo those.)
Correct: iTunes did import the new ebooks (and some others) properly into iTunes’ Books section.
Incorrectly done: iTunes did not sync and upload the new ebooks (et al.) to my iPad. Good thing the transfer of files to the Kindle app did work.
I think what’s wrong is ultimately some problem between iTunes, my laptop, and my iPad with iOS 6.0. — Whatever it is, I’ve tried multiple times, multiple ways and it won’t work and it’s giving responses worthy of a t’ca or chi, nothing sensible. I’m not a newbie at this stuff, I’ve had an iPad for about a year or more now and an iPhone for longer, and iTunes for years. But I’m out of patience with them after almost two hours. It’ll have to wait. (Maybe until iOS gets its next upgrade.)
There was NO fault with the ebooks from Closed Circle. Those are quite fine!
I am not a huge fan of the Kindle app, though I use it often for reading on my iPad. *It* did do what it was supposed to do, and because it did, I will get to read the new stories.
Anyway, many thanks to you both, Jane and C.J., and I’m about to take a break. I will be reading new ebooks tonight, and right now, I’m off in search of where I misplaced two box sets (Dark Angel) to watch this week/weekend.
Did not locate where I set aside Dark Angel to rewatch. Bummer. Did locate a ring I thought was long lost. Hurray! Now if I could find the other ring I lost a few years ago, a beautiful turquoise ring with sentimental value, I’d be amazed. I’ll have to settle for finding Dark Angel, though. Probably hiding off the grid with the other X5’s.
No, not that ring, Gollum.
Got Partners this afternoon, fortunately before the time expired!
No trouble at all, got it unzipped, my pick of formats, epub, mobi, or pdf, and transferred the .pdf version to my eReader. Looks good from here.
Tell Jane she’s allowed to overindulge tonight, it’s her reward for all of her hard work on CC, on the books, and in general, and still having time to answer all of us, and to take a little bit of time with Wishu. Is the Shuster getting jealous of the little guy?
The Shuster is in seventh heaven. We found the BEST Shuster toy ever and he’s been getting some serious mom play time every day. He was bored with every toy in the house, but this thing has both him and Seishi going nuts.
http://www.amazon.com/Da-Bird-Catcher-Feather-Toys/dp/B000LPOUNW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351148925&sr=8-1&keywords=da+bird+mouse
This thing is a tiny mouse on a fabulously flexible braided metal wire. It positively flies. The cats LOVE it!
Ah, it’s on my wish list. Now, if I could do a couple of things with my new kittens…. 1) Bring Sophie out of her shell and not be afraid of me, as well as Maggie not being afraid, too. 2) stop Sydney (my 2nd older cat) from terrorizing Sophie. She gets along well with Maggie, but not with Sophie. Poor Sophie hides under the bed when I come in the room, but when I’m sitting with one of the other cats, she comes in and gives me that look like, “I want to come over there, but I’m afraid of humans. I’m sorry, but the human who found me kept my sister Maggie and me isolated from human contact for over 2 months. We don’t know what you’ll do to us.” Well, I’m being patient with them, if it’s just Sophie and I in the room (with the door shut to keep out terrorist cats), I’ll call her name softly over and over, not expecting her to come out, but just to calm her down. The Feliway helps some, but Sydney is just too overbearing at times.
Hooray for Shuster, glad he is enjoying his new toy.
Snagged Partners at work, which involved some wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth because I needed to send it to my home compy and load it onto my Kindle. There was some question about whether file size limits would become an issue and make me put it onto a flash drive, but it seems to have gone to the right inbox. I will buy the other things from home, since the time limits are far less restrictive, and will involve fewer peregrinations.
I just bought the whole set of new books, and thank Jane for the free download. Happy Birth Day Jane!
I was wondering if in the description of the Netwalkers Omnibus it could be made clearer what it is an omnibus of. Is it an Omnibus of Partners and Of Mentors and Mimetrons? Is it an Omnibus of Groundties, Uplink, and Harmonies? I was not sure from the description.
I am really looking forward to reading the revised Rusalka trilogy, and will start Netwalkers afterwards.
It’s Partners and Mimetron—in the Omnibus, and if you have double-bought anything by accident we will happily work it out: we’re small enough to do that sort of thing…
W000t! just downloaded my copies of Yvgenie, Deliberations, and Partners… Off to enjoy my lunch break FAR more than I probably deserve. ๐
Not sure this is even important, but:
The cover page intro for Deliberations has an odd formatting issue in the last sentence:
“… contribution to the author=s livelihood.”
Explicitly: “(in italics)… contribution to the author(no more italics)=s livelihood.”
Epub format on a Nook 1st Edition.
PDF version has the same thing (switching away from italics) but with an apostrophe instead of the “=” symbol.
(hopefully this will be a simple fix!)
Oh, drat! I hate it when that happens! It means fixing it in all formats and re-uploading. I won’t tell Jane yet.
I’d suggest waiting at least a week to make any changes, so your legion of volunteer proofreaders can finish their task!
What she said! ๐ ๐ ๐
Keep those corrections coming our way, oh fearless proofers! In fact…how ’bout I start a special page over on harmonies and you can post the corrections there! ๐
Deliberations is fantastic!
I really got a kick out of Deliberations. More so with Ilisidi’s wry and hunt-sharp humor and then the dรฉnouement.
I did notice a small number of typos, but I was reading for enjoyment and didn’t stop to even highlight them. Poor planning; it wouldn’t have interrupted too much. Well, I will re-read and resolve to catch any.
One point did get me. I *think* Tabinisays he’s 22, 23 the coming day, and his father’s demise was 8 years ago. But then a little after, there’s something about him having been eight instead of the expected fourteen. But then except for maybe one ref by Ilisidi, it returns to eight years ago, which again would put him at fourteen when his father died. I’d need to re-read to be sure I didn’t miss something.
A very fine glimpse at Tabini and Ilisidi doing the unexpected. Curious, too, in that it is entirely before Bren. — how or if they had any say in Bren’s appointment could be a fine tale too.
I liked the short story format. It may or may not be comfortable for you, given the scope of your stories. But I enjoyed Visible Light, long ago.