BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade

Subject: BS: Amos' Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Amos
Date: 16 May 13 - 05:36 PM

I have today released Beyond the Cascade into the maw of BookBaby, which means it will show up on Amazon in two to four days. This is really exciting and a bit nerve-wracking for me, as it is all new territory.

I will post a link to it as soon as it appears there. It will show up after a little more lead time on Apple, Barnes and Noble, and other book distribution sites. Here is the teaser announcement on FB, which shows you the stunning book cover designed by my foster-son, Tony. I think he did a fine job.

The book itself has received enthusiastic reviews by all those who have read it, including some of our most discriminating Catters! You can catch their drift from thereviews on this page if so inclined.

For those interested in this new world of self-publication, I will keep you updated on my adventures here. If you happen to get a copy of it, please bask in my beaming thanks! Feel free to throw reviews up on Amazon when it comes out. The more noise the better, I say, as anyone knows who has spent a long night singing in the Peace Cabin . :D

Exciting times!

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Amos
Date: 16 May 13 - 07:00 PM

When it does roll out, it will gradually appear in:

iBookstore (Apple)

Sony

Amazon Kindle

Barnes & Noble

Kobo

Baker & Taylor

Copia

Gardner's

eBookPie

eSentral

Scribd

some of which I do not even recognize. But you should be able to find it somewhere, if you want to. I recommend it as a terrific beach read, for example, if you do that sort of thing of a summer. Or an unusual gift, or something to stay up late with sipping brandy!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 May 13 - 09:08 PM

Hey, man! Sounds interesting. And the cover is wonderful, captures what reviewers have said about it. I will be looking for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 May 13 - 01:47 AM

Good work!

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Elmore
Date: 17 May 13 - 09:11 AM

Looks impressive. I'm certainly going to read the novel, and wish you the best of luck with it.

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 May 13 - 09:34 AM

Looks good to me. Waiting with baited breath for the Kindle release. As long as it is no more than three and a half pence of course. Us Gnomes are notoriously guarded with our gold... ;-)

Probably get round to actually reading it the book after next - Which I have had since Christmas!

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 May 13 - 09:54 AM

So...I can and am actually encouraged to post reviews, huh? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Amos
Date: 17 May 13 - 10:13 AM

Well, in your case, Rapparree, I might make an exception! :D

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 17 May 13 - 12:40 PM

I may not buy it soon Amos, as just yesterday I received the seven volume box set of 'Song of Ice and Fire' (wordy version of HBO's Game of Thrones) for my birthday and on top of rereading War and Peace it's quite a few words to work through, but having read your philosophical and esoteric posts on this forum, I am definitely intrigued. I'd also like to congratulate you on getting your work out there!

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: gnu
Date: 17 May 13 - 02:35 PM

I haven't read many books since the accident and I have one in progress and a fair few in que but I shall endeavour to acquire said literary masterpiece (after reading Rap's reviews on another thread... not that I ever doubted your ability, A) and set it on top of the pile. I mean the pile at bedside.... THE pile.

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Amos
Date: 20 May 13 - 01:21 PM

Well, it's working its way through the digestive tract of the Book Baby file conversion system, while I sit and quietly chew my nails until the review copy comes back.

There have been a lot of reviewers over the years while I was evolving and polishing. Some of their comments can be found on this temporary website (you have to scroll down a bit) if you're curious about what readers have had to say about it.

More news when it happens!!

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Amos
Date: 21 May 13 - 03:28 PM

Here's a synopsis:

Beyond the Cascade is a marriage between Gulliver and The Celestine Prophecy, between Robert Ruark, or Papa Hemingway, and Bridge Across Forever. It goes further than these in some dimensions, if less far in others, and it could be thought of as an educated Jennifer Livingston Seagull. Except that Beyond the Cascade is not about birds. It is about humans. Human souls, human language, minds and hearts, and the battles they cause. It offers its own unique perspective in the weaving of these things. It is, as far as categories are concerned, a "literary and spiritual adventure novel" focusing on the soul of a woman. It is sometimes ungentle, but it is never unkind. The tale is richly featured with sub-plots and explorations into linguistics, anthropological quirks and some fine cuisine. It even explores, in the course of its development, the mystic legacy of the Grail legends beyond the Arthurian clichés and other distortions.

Beyond the Cascade follows the adventures of Suzannah Grant, an unstoppable American Alpha Chick in her mid-thirties who is beginning to reach the pinnacle of success in her career as a linguistic anthropologist, and who finds herself unexpectedly hitting a black, cold wall of clinical depression. Her usual solutions to hurdles do not avail, and her search for medical help produces nothing of value. Her psychiatrist, running out of other solutions, sends her off with the mandate to "learn new things". While fumbling around trying to do so, she finds herself picking up an antique journal from a Victorian explorer in which she encounters a description of a remote tribe whose unusual culture and language set off distant bells in her foggy thinking.,

Picking up the threads of the explorer's trail, she finds herself being more and more determined to resolve the mystery of the people of the fabled Cascade, their culture and their mysterious atypical language. Exhuming long buried manuscripts in old university archives, digging into legends obscured by centuries, and finally throwing herself into a full-blown trek into the hinterlands of Africa, she finds herself in the hands of two remarkable men: a guide called Muhaybee and a leathery ancient witch named Doc. The travails and discoveries of her path ultimately bring her to the Cascade, and a great deal further, leading to dramatic changes in her mental perspective and an explosive intensely spiritual culmination which goes beyond the expected and the known to a bit more than that.

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Amos
Date: 28 May 13 - 03:15 PM

Well, the folks at Book Baby sent me the review of the epub file and I found some flaws, so I rejected it. I will be sending int he revised file today. I have to say Book Baby's phone support is excellent, but they have a neurotic robomailer who keeps sending me emails about the epub file. The human support gal kindly suggested I ignore them. :D

So the new file goes in by end of today, new and improved!

Sorry for the delay. I'll announce the new release date as soon as I know it.

Regards,

A

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Amos
Date: 28 May 13 - 10:25 PM

All righty, then! The final-final file is safely ensconced in the dank interior of BookBaby's gigantic server. As soon as they can process it, we will get it blessed and delivered-- to Amazon firat, others following according to their lag.

I owe a great deal of thanks to many Mudcatters for their encouragement in getting this very large project through to completion, in particular to the benevolence of WYSIWIG and the fiery insight of Jen Oaks, whose presence int hese halls is sorely missed. Some of you may vaguely recall when I swore I was dropping out of Mudcat to concentrate on this book, a vow I could not bear to keep. That was many years back, and the book is scarcely recognizable after all the improving it has undergone since then.

But now it is done and on its way to the world, and we shall see how fertile the ground on which it doth fall. :D

Thanks,


A

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: gnu
Date: 28 May 13 - 10:54 PM

I am sure it will fall, take root and grow. Good on ya. Congrats.

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: EBarnacle
Date: 29 May 13 - 10:19 AM

In an effort to maximize your income and object to Amazon's labor policies, can we order dircet from you?

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Amos
Date: 29 May 13 - 10:25 AM

What an interesting idea! The thought never occurred to me.

I will have the electronic versions available on my web site with an ecommerce link, yes. I'll post when they are up and available.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: GUEST,arkie
Date: 30 May 13 - 10:02 AM

Refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: gnu
Date: 31 May 13 - 07:26 AM

Now that a lot of the BS artists have seen this thread, perhaps it should be moved above the line? It is about fine literature n all eh?

BTW, how will you autograph these books, A?

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 31 May 13 - 01:36 PM

I want my copy of "Beyond the Cascade" autographed by Amos in blood. Nothin' less will do.

- Chongo

p.s. I mean his blood, okay? Not mine.

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Amos
Date: 01 Jun 13 - 01:47 PM

Sure thing, Chongo. Send me a pint in a bottle so I can practice using my nib, eh?

The hard copy version has been processed and a galley proof is on its way for blessing, We shall see. The e-book should be blessed next week sometime or after I get back from Alaska. I will be cavorting around Juneau with La Belle Chanteuse K.T. !! Whoa!

So shortly after the 13th all the distributions will begin showing up. Yay us!

The great thing about this, after all this time, is my plate is suddenly about to be clear to start on a long-deferred CD and a second book. Whoof, whoof, whoof!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Amos
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 12:50 PM

Well, I tweaked the e-book and it is undergoing delivery to umpty-ump distributors. They lag as follows:

iBookstore        Delivered 06/12/2013        Your eBook should be up for sale in approximately 3-6 weeks from when we deliver to them.
Sony        Delivered 06/13/2013        Your eBook should be up for sale in approximately 3-4 weeks from when we deliver to them.
Amazon Kindle        Delivery in Process 06/12/2013        
Barnes & Noble        Delivered 06/13/2013        Your eBook should be up for sale in approximately 2-4 weeks from when we deliver to them.

Kobo        Delivered 06/12/2013        Your eBook should be up for sale in approximately 2-3 weeks from when we deliver to them.

Baker & Taylor        Delivered 06/12/2013        Your eBook should be up for sale in approximately 2-3 weeks from when we deliver to them.

Copia        Delivered 06/12/2013        We do not currently have an estimate for eBooks going live at Copia. We are delivering eBooks to them but there is a delay in their process for making a delivered ebook available for purchase on their site.

Gardner's        Delivered 06/12/2013        Your eBook should be up for sale in approximately 3-4 weeks from when we deliver to them.

eSentral        Delivered 06/12/2013        Your eBook should be up for sale in approximately 2-3 weeks from when we deliver to them.

Scribd        Delivered 06/12/2013        Your eBook should be up for sale in approximately 2-3 weeks from when we deliver to them.

Even though Amazon is listed as "delivery in process", whatever that means, they will probably be the first up for public access.

It's been an interesting process, and a long long journey, I must say,

The hard copy had some tweaks to be done but I have now uploaded the final improved version. It will end up costing about $10 more than the e-book, worth it for those who love the feel of real bookstuff in their hands. I hope you get it, one way or the other, and enjoying the many threads and colors in it.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 02:42 PM

It's just the beginning, Amos. Soon your name will be a household word, and you won't be able to venture out on the street without being hounded by autograph hunters and weird, skinny, freckled girls in Birkenstocks who gush, "I'm your biggest fan!" I'll hear other people talking about your book at coffee shops, and I'll casually say, "I know him. He's an old friend of mine. we chat on a daily basis." Yup, this oughta be good. I can't wait for it to start happening.

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 02:55 PM

Just to clarify the bit about the skinny girl fans who will be pursuing you...what I had in mind was something like the woman you'll see in this Annie Hall clip just after the 7:43 mark:

clip from Annie Hall movie

She knows Bob Dylan's lyrics too, so you know she's gotta be cool. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 03:02 PM

Oops! Sorry. I should have said at the 5:14 mark not the 7:43 mark. It ends at 7:43. Go to 5:14 in the clip and watch for the next 2 minutes and you'll see her.

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Amos
Date: 14 Jun 13 - 01:27 PM

Amazon Kindle is now "delivered", so it should show up there by Monday. The print version is under final check by CreateSpace.


I like your vision, LH, but would you mind remodeling the Woody Allen riff? I left New York for good reason!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 14 Jun 13 - 01:41 PM

Me too. There was this primate gang there that was gonna kill me after I decided to switch sides and start workin' for the law. I figgered better to start out fresh in Chicago.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jun 13 - 02:16 PM

How does the e-book signing tour work?

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Jun 13 - 04:45 PM

You only have to show up virtually. I have a new hologram machine that does this for me now. I go all kinds of places virtually. They've got warrants out for my virtual self now in Mecca, the Vatican, the Pentagon, Buckingham Palace, the Kremlin, and Schenectady...partly because the machine isn't programmed right yet and it keeps sending me places without my clothing. I need to get a patch to fix the program.

Subject: RE: BS: NOW IN PRINT: Beyond the Cascade
From: Amos
Date: 14 Jun 13 - 05:10 PM

BEYOND THE CASCADE is now in print!

The URL for the printed version is https://www.createspace.com/4291541.

Flood CreateSpace! ;>) I am all cattywhompus with delight, I don't mind telling ya!


Hugs,


A

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Jun 13 - 05:46 PM

I love the bio, Amos!

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jun 13 - 06:38 AM

Awwww, lad! Ya done good! I hope yer face hurts from smilin.

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jun 13 - 06:44 AM

Oh, yeah, in my excitement I forgot to ditto LH on the bio.

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jun 13 - 10:03 AM

Are there bug-eyed monsters in it? It can't be a good novel without BEMs.

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Jun 13 - 10:20 AM

I originally suggested that there should be a talking Chimp in the story as well, but I fear my suggestion has fallen on deaf ears.

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Amos
Date: 15 Jun 13 - 10:26 AM

There are bug-eyed monsters AND monkeys in it, gentlemen. You will just have to read it.

It is available NOW on Amazon for Kindle and on CreateSpace in hard copy. Don't delay!

Young Will, who thought Barbara was luvverly,
Fell ill with no chance of recovery.
   He said "I'm besotted",
   But she said "Get knotted";
Which they did, when they died, with some shrubbery.

(From an obscure website covering limericks written about Childs ballads)


A

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jun 13 - 02:55 PM

The BEMs eating the monkeys and any chimps that are around? That would be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cool!

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Jun 13 - 07:06 PM

Yeah, but then Chongo arrives and blows the BEM away with a well-aimed burst of .45 cal ammo. Even coooooooler!

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jun 13 - 08:21 PM

BEMs have a force field around them. I'd have thought you'd know that.

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Jun 13 - 10:07 PM

Yes, they often do in the old sci-fi movies, but how often do they encounter a Chimp with a Thompson Gun?

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jun 13 - 10:26 PM

I shall delay until such time as I am able to insert it into my bedtime reading lying in bed with a book I can FEEL. I have not done so in four months as I am distracted with other things, especially with an environmental and social cause. Alas, I have just taken on another. This one shall be even far more challenging as the people up in arms over it are more concerned with their arms than addressing the big picture in a logical and thoughtful approach while the corporations and politicians push their buttons and smoke and mirror them. Sigh. So sad when ya gotta fight ignorance on YER OWN SIDE ta get anywhere against the other side. Nobody ever said being a social reformist and environmental hero would be easy but this shit is gettin me down.

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Amos
Date: 19 Jun 13 - 12:10 AM

You can order the har4d-copy at once, sir. No delay is required. Go to AMazon.com and see for yourself. Click here for paperback.

Click here for Kindle.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 19 Jun 13 - 10:41 AM

You got 4-dimensional hard copies of it? That must be somethin' to see.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Jun 13 - 01:22 PM

I just bought it on Amazon, Amos. I'm looking forward to reading it soon.

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Amos
Date: 19 Jun 13 - 01:46 PM

Thanks, George!!

ANyone who wants an electronic copy can have one for free in exchange for an agreement to post an honest review at Amazon.

Email me at ahjessup1ATgmailDOTcom, and let me know if you want an epub or PDF version.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Jun 13 - 04:02 PM

Heh! The Scottish side of me is reeling now with the knowledge that I coulda got it for FREE!!! Heh! Just kidding. I prefer the tactile nature of a real book that I can take to the coffee shop with me...I don't have a laptop, iphone, etc...so I am absolutely computer-free whenever I leave the house.

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Jun 13 - 04:05 PM

FreeRush

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Monique
Date: 20 Jun 13 - 04:21 PM

It's already crossed the ocean, I'll get it next week.

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Amos
Date: 20 Jun 13 - 10:22 PM

Eb:

PDF, epub or mobi? I don't think I have your email addy, though. PM me!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Delightful Novel: Beyond the Cascade
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jun 13 - 10:34 PM

Well, I looked. I wanted to read that delightful novel beyond the Cascade. I took all of it off the shelf, the powder type and the tablets and all, and piled it on the floor.

No novel, delightful or otherwise.

So I emptied all the boxes, in case it was beyond that. No novel, but I don't think they'll ever let me back into Walmart.