A little science, history, and speculation to reveal everything you never wanted to know about the dooms and disaster the universe has in store.
From the ordinary worries about the next financial crisis to the possibilities for war, civil unrest, or martial law or even “Mad Max” world, to things that fall out of the sky (ask the dinosaurs) or Extreme Weather, to magnetic pole shift, coronal mass ejections, novae and supernovae complete with massive x-radiation — and beyond the Solar System to the fartherest reaches of the cosmos.
“Embrace the Doom” is a Grand Tour like nothing you’ve ever seen before.
I’ll say this about indie publishing — CreateSpace (“an Amazon company”) is easy to use. KDP, Kindle Direct Publishing is another kettle of fish, and none of these people seem to talk to each other. KDP has two user guides, the ‘easy’ one is inadequate and the ‘techy’ one is incomprehensible — both assume everyone in the world uses Microsoft Windows.
No idea why the Doom print version does not have the Look Inside feature when all the others do. Oh well.
My only cost — other than time capital — has been ordering print proofs (and shipping that costs more than my cost of said books, grrrr. So it goes.) I’ll welcome any feedback, particularly on Kindle problems. I have three ways of reading that format on Ubuntu linux and two readers on Windows 7 new laptop, and none agree on the display, maybe the format is just flaky!
jimski says:
Ill wait for the torrent dl. So Friday………….
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8th December 2012 at 9:08 pm
Llpoh says:
Novista – good luck. Hope they are all best-sellers.
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8th December 2012 at 9:22 pm
Eddie says:
I like the money book a lot, Novista.
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8th December 2012 at 9:28 pm
Colma Rising says:
I’ll pick some up for gifts along with the novel.
Yes, folks, Novista wrote a novel. I’m inspired to publish some stories now….
I’ll get more “Money In America”s to pass out at the coffee shack at school next to the darlings passing out the “Socialism NOW” fliers.
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8th December 2012 at 9:54 pm
Kill Bill says:
Windows is facing stiff competition as ipads and other ‘smaat’ devices use Linux or Free BSD based operating systems. Android and Apple both use an open source based system.
Its not surprising Kindle is having formatting issues. It uses a modified version of Linux it calls ice cream sandwhich [which Android also uses and Windows just doesnt like to play nice =)
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8th December 2012 at 1:34 am
Stan says:
Zig Ziegler sleeps wid da fishes.
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8th December 2012 at 6:47 am
Novista says:
Thanks, llpoh, Eddie, Colma.
KB
Kindle has a converter app for Windows, Mac and linux. There’s also a Kindle Reader for Windows 7. Even that doesn’t work on install — a forum search suggests set compatibility to XP SP3 but that doesn’t work on my new H-P Win7 laptop either. The converter blows up on any format I point at it. LOL, from my Ubuntu desktop machine.
And these’s a Cloud Reader. None are consistent.
Whatever I’ve passed to the system finally has been ‘approved’ by the robot but it’s anyone’s guess what it really looks like on a device. LOL.
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8th December 2012 at 6:57 am
a cruel accountant says:
Novista if work is life, you will live forever.
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8th December 2012 at 1:08 am
TeresaE says:
Just bought it, I’ve downloaded it to my phone, will start it in the next day or so, look forward to reading it Nova! (don’t spend your giant take in one place Admin)
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8th December 2012 at 10:21 am
Didius Julianus says:
Hi Novista,
How long have you been in Australia? I’ve been in New Zealand for 2 years…
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8th December 2012 at 2:26 pm
Mary Malone says:
Congratulations, Novista.
I just order “Embracing the Doom’ in paperback. I’m going to give it to my hub as a stocking stuffer. Mr. Malone has been depressed since the election. This oughtta cheer him up. Heh.
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8th December 2012 at 12:23 am
Novista says:
hahahaha, oh my … best laugh I’ve had all day, MM. Tnx.
LOL, I just happened to catch my first “Doomsday Preppers” … *sigh* Only watched a bit.
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8th December 2012 at 5:25 am
Novista says:
Didius Julianus
I came here in 1974, lucky timing, land of oz converting to colo(u)r TV and I was a broadcast engineer. Had been in American Samoa for two years on a contract job and as close to oz that I tried to get to when I was about 18 … seems Da Man took a dim view of draft bait wanting to leave the country.
TE
Thanks for the support. When/if you find a problem with that Kindle version, let me know.
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8th December 2012 at 5:34 am