Hi
I thought I was 'out there' when I began downloading plain text electronic books onto my e-book reader.
Now there are 'vooks', a combination of text, video and social networking links for both fiction and non-fiction. You can watch them on your Internet browser or download apps for i-phone, i-pad, Amazon Kindle or Android devices.
Check out this short video from YouTube, an interview with Judith Curr of Simon & Schuster.
Vook.com has vooks to buy and download, also author/publisher information.
New York Times books section has a thought-provoking article about vooks.
Whether authors choose to embrace all these new technologies or not, it's good to be aware of what's out there.
happy writing,
Christine Harris
Christine Harris
Smiling exercises more face muscles than frowning
About Me
- Christine Harris
- Mount Barker, Adelaide Hills, Australia
- I’ve always loved books. As a child I escaped into other worlds via the written page and pretended I was a character in the story. I still do this, but now I write down my own versions of what that character does. My goal is to make people laugh, cry or gasp when they read my stories. Or when they hear me tell stories. After an especially exciting talk in Alice Springs, in Central Australia, a seven year-old rushed up to me and said, ‘Are you going to be a comedian when you grow up?’ Then he put one hand to his mouth and said, ‘Oh, you are grown up, aren’t you?’ Perhaps that is the key to why I write for younger readers. Part of me is their age. Truly, I wrote my first book up a tree. Okay, I was only nine years old. But it was a really big tree. That book was never published, but it was one of my most exciting. Not only was I up a tree, I was being rescued by a surprisingly hairless Tarzan. One of my favourite sayings about books is a Chinese proverb, ‘A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.’
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