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The Kindle and Nook version of Nervous Laughter is now online.  With this addition, all five of the first Thomas Black private eye mysteries are on line. We’re working on the next five. Cinelli has given us an updated cover for Deviant Behavior. I’d like some feedback on which cover is preferred. Book covers are always problematic. It’s hard to tell if people are buying the storyline or the cover, or just completing a series.

The old Deviant Behavior cover.

 

The new Deviant Behavior cover. Which do you prefer?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both these covers are replacing the absolutely hideous cover Ballantine slapped onto it in 1998. All I can think of is that somebody in the house must have gone temporarily insane.

Lastly, you can purchase Nervous Laughter at your Kindle store or at Barnes and Noble —coming shortly.

The hideous cover. Unfortunately thousands of these were printed and Ballantine repeatedly assured me that as soon as they were all sold, they would reconsider the cover. Well, it never happened. The Rainy City and Poverty Bay covers were equally hideous. Cinelli, when he’s not drinking, does a far better job, I think.

A short note on typos. We proofread these titles scrupulously but we’re only human. If you find a typo, please notify me and I’ll amend the e-books pronto. The problems are multiple. In the beginning, a lot of it had to do with the Kindle platform and the translation. Most of the first mistakes in the first few Kindle books we put on weren’t ours. Well . . . a lot of them were ours. But a lot of them were translation errors and not our fault.

We download a Word document formatted properly, then read the kindle translation, then okay it. But what we read in the sample is not what always shows up in the finished product. It was frustrating. Kindle has revised their technology and now they even have a spellchecker which found four typos in this last manuscript. Bravo.

 

 

 

 

Deviant Behavior cover by Cinelli.