Sunday, June 3, 2012

'chap-ebook'!

June 2012 Newsletter 'Word from the Editor'

We are happy to announce the creation of a new line of products for IFWG Publishing. We all know about 'chapbooks', that oddity in publishing that started off as a newsletter a few centuries ago - small books (normally 40 pages or less) that contained a story, or newsletter, or the like. Some authors publish similarly sized beasts as ebooks, and we thought it was a great idea to marry the two concepts together, hence creating the 'chap-ebook'!

We aren't doing this in a big way; we are expressly publishing chap-ebooks only written by our current authors - those who we published novels, anthologies and non-fiction. No one else. The reasoning behind this is to provide readers with extra material from their favorite authors, and sometimes also supplement larger stories with smaller work. We are delighted to do this, and in the spirit of chapbooks, we will turn them over rather quickly, and not necessarily spend a great deal of time polishing the covers. We will be numbering our 'chap-ebook' series in the order they are published.

Gift Horse is the first cab off the rank, and has the honor of being number #001. It is a wonderful science-fiction piece written by our Managing Director, and author of the KnorraSky series of novels, R.A. Knowlton. Over coming weeks we will be adding three more chap-ebooks to our collection - just stay tuned.

Gerry Huntman
Chief Editor
IFWG Publishing

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