Reliving a virtual past - Dennis Hamley
A few weeks ago I made a rather disturbing discovery. I was at first horrified and completely at a loss about what to do about it. Then it occurred to me that I needn't be horrified or at a loss because I'd stumbled on the true glory - and even justification for - Indie ebook publishing. I'd been given an opportunity I'd longed for whenever I had a conventional book published, but which I knew I'd never get however many reprints it went through. It's still a pain in the bum though. During the Edebook festival in August I'd spent some time launching my latest ebook, Out of the Mouths of Babes. As I said in a previous blog, the book was originally published in 1997. I knew even then that the ending was rather arbitrary and posed many questions which only time and teasing the implications out of the plot could answer. Why didn't I try to follow them through there and then? Only now, as I recalled the origina...