E-Book Sales! Two of Them! Now Through January 3 Only!

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As happens with some frequency, Open Road Media is having an e-book sale. Actually, two of them. As clipped from the email they sent me: 

ISBN13	Title	Author	Promo Type	Country	Start Date	End Date	Promo Price
9781504036511	Tales of Old Earth	Swanwick, Michael	ORM - Rank Boost	CA	2024-12-27	2025-01-03	$1.99
9781504036474	In the Drift	Swanwick, Michael	ORM - Rank Boost	US	2024-12-27	2025-01-03	$1.99

Tales of Old Earth is a short story collection and In the Drift is my first novel. If you've been curious about either of them and were hoping to get them cheap... well, here's your chance.

I believe in the soft sell.

And to make this post less boring . . .

When I submitted the manuscript of my first novel to Ace Science Fiction, it was titled simply The Drift. But my editor there quite rightly observed that this made it sound like a horror novel, like The Fog or The Hunger or The Exorcist.

Then they retitled it In the Drift.

It was a terrible title, but I could not think of anything better. 

The novel was a fix-up of three previously published and closely related novellas connected by two short-shorts written to connect them. And the first novella was titled "Mummer Kiss."

A year or so later, I received the French translation from Denoel. It was titled Le baiser du masque. I got out my Petit Larousse (this was before the Web, children) to see what that meant.

It was titled Mummer Kiss.

And I felt like such a fool for not having thought of that myself.

 

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