The Adventure Begins

Years ago, few people had heard of ebooks. We discussed them in my writers group and dismissed the idea as something that would never happen. "Who wants to sit in front of a computer to read a book?" "I want to feel the paper, turn the pages, and sit with a cup of coffee while I read." "It'll never catch on." (In fairness, e-readers were not available yet.)

One of our group's members had had over 30 books published by a major publishing house. Louise was in her mid 80s, and the only one of our little group who didn't own a computer, still tapping out her stories on her typewriter.

Yet she was an adventurer. "I'm going to make my next novel an ebook," she said. True to her word, in 2001 her novel, The Last Cruise, came out as an ebook as well as a Print on Demand paperback (POD was also in its infancy).

Fast forward to 2012. Ebooks are everywhere. Now it's my turn. If Louise could embrace the new, so can I, a technologically challenged senior in my own right. My award-winning book, Evangeline Brown and the Cadillac Motel, published by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin USA, has gone out of print.

It needs to be an ebook. I want it to be an ebook. It WILL be an ebook.

Let the adventure begin!