FoxBytes #1, March 2002 HTML version.
Welcome to the first edition of FoxBytes, where we'll tell you what's up and what's new with FoxAcre Press. Click on the hyperlinks for more information on the topic in question.
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FoxAcre now has thirteen titles in print. We've got titles from some of the biggest names in science fiction and fantasy, plus how-to books on writing and publishing.
All of our titles are, of course, available for sale direct from the FoxAcre Press website, at www.foxacre.com , and via mail-order as well. They are also available for sale from Amazon.Com, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and many other online booksellers. Bookdealers and libraries can order all our titles at standard discounts direct from FoxAcre, or from Ingram. In the very near future, they'll be available from Baker and Taylor as well.
We've accomplished a lot, but there's much more on the way, including many new titles—some we can announce right now, and others just a little bit down the road we'll have to save for the next issue.
Want to know more about what we're doing? Have a suggestion? Write to us at foxinfo@foxacre.com with any queries you might have, or to share your ideas.
FoxAcre Press is proud to announce the release of three new science fiction titles in April: The story collection Celestial Debris by Lawrence Watt-Evans, the novel Tweedlioop by Stanley Schmidt, and Hawkbill Times Two by Robert Silverberg: the novella and novel versions of a classic tale, together for the first time. Click on the titles to see more information, how to order, and images of the covers.
by Stanley Schmidt
Question: When is a squirrel not a squirrel? Answer: When it's a most unexpected form of alien visitor. Stanley Schmidt's tale of First Contact will make you smile—and make you think. Includes a new afterword by the author. 192 pages.
0-9709711-2-5 $13.50.
by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Lawrence Watt-Evans delivers a never-before-published story collection. These tales of science fiction and fantasy stories are written with all the wit and imagination that earned Watt-Evans a Hugo. Includes an introduction for each story, written especially for this collection. 0-9709711-3-3 264 pages. $17.50.
by Robert Silverberg
Travel back in time a billion years to Hawksbill Station— twice. For the first time in print, both versions of Robert Silverberg's haunting tale of time travel, loss, betrayal and redemption appear in the same volume. Includes the novella and full-length novel of "Hawksbill Station" plus an introduction and afterword, describing how the two versions came to be written.
210 pages. 0-9709711-6-8 $15.00.
The revised 3rd edition of Mother Miller's How to Write Good Book , Sasha Miller's witty and acerbic guide to writing fiction, will be released in April. The revised edition of MMHTWGB appears in a larger format, adds new essays, has updated coverage of several topics, is fully indexed, and includes an introduction by Andre Norton.
In that introduction, Ms Norton says: "Mother Miller's How To Write Good Book lays out for the beginning word-worker an exact blueprint of the principles of good writing and provides one of the best introductions to the mastery of language-using skills that I have ever seen. Simply and clearly, for any budding author whose imagination is nudging at him or her with a `What?', this wise and whimsical manual, properly applied, will supply the all-important `How.'"
FoxAcre Press offers additional titles through our Author's Stock program. We sell new copies of out-of-print books, as provided to us by the authors themselves. These books are available only through our website.
In order to promote this service, we offer a featured title, available at a discount. Our current featured title is HOW LIKE A GOD by Brenda Clough. Visit our Author's Stock Page for more information on this title and all our Author's Stock books.
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