Kestrell

Kes: I've been meaning to post the news that Cory's new short story collection, _With a Little Help_, is now out in multiple formats, as always, including as a free etext, as always
http://craphound.com/walh/

After the cut I include a couple of quotes from Cory's new article, "Zen and the Art of Self-Publishing," which answered at least one of publishing's greatest mysteries to me: what the heck is it about limited editions?

For now, here is Cory's description of the book and links to it's various formats:

*With a Little Help,* consists of 12 stories, all
reprints except for "Epoch," which was commissioned by the Ubuntu project's Mark Shuttleworth...
The book is available in many forms:

* 250 super-limited hardcovers: $275.
These are hand-bound at the Wyvern Bindery in Clerkenwell, London, and
printed by Oldacres of Hatton Garden. Each book has original paper
ephemera (see Flickr set) donated by various writer friends to the
project, and comes with a SD card bearing the full text of the book as
well as the full audiobook.

* Audiobook: MP3 CD $10. Ogg CD $5.50.
I tapped many voice actor friends (Neil Gaiman, Mur Lafferty, Wil
Wheaton, Leo Laporte, Emily Hurson, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Hugh AD
Spencer, Mary Robinette Kowal, JC Hutchins, Roy Trumbull, Jonathan
Coulton, Spider Robinson, Jesse Brown, and Russell Galen) to record the
stories in this volume, and their recordings were mastered by John
Taylor Williams, who also masters my podcast.
[Kes: Jonathan Coulton reading to me? Sqwee! Sorry, Alexx!]
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Kes: Two info bites from Cory's mailing list; I encourage folks to read the column about how Cory got phished, as I came very close to falling for a similar attempt myself.

1. Info re Cory's new YA book _For the Win_:

Monday morning (volcano permitting!), I fly to the US for a tour to
promote my latest book, the YA novel For the Win. I'll be making stops
in Chicago, Seattle, Portland OR, San Francisco/Palo Alto, Austin,
Raleigh/Chapel Hill, New York and Toronto. Tor books has just put the
schedule online -- I hope to see you!

And yes, the book will be available as a free download, just as soon as
I touch down in Chicago and get the site online. I'm also going to pop
in at Forbidden Planet London this weekend and sign their stock before I go.

Tour schedule:
http://us.macmillan.com/Tour.aspx?id=554&publisher=macmillansite

2. My latest Locus column, "Persistence Pays Parasites," describes the
process by which I fell prey to a phishing attack on Twitter, and how I
learned (the hard way) that my threat-model for this kind of attack was
flawed:
Persistence Pays Parasites:
http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2010/05/cory-doctorow-persistence-pays-parasites/