Updating the website

We're updating the website.  Especially pleased with the little slide show on the home page!   We also have a page on which you can post a review.  

This is a long slow process (updating) and we value your patience, but we're definitely making inroads.

In the meanwhile have fun on our links page reading all those author blogs!

Note about Submissions

Anyone who wants to submit should please email info@pkaboo.net rather than the submissions email, as we are experiencing slight difficulties.

If your submission was overlooked, please accept our apologies and resubmit.

Regards
TheTeam

December 20, Launch of Lupa, Forest Circle Quest and Freedom Fighter at Glenstantia Library

Lovely daylilies brought by the librarian for the authors :)

Glenstantia is a spacious, modern library.  The atmosphere is beautiful; calm, organized. Foreground:  P'kaboo's books- with the 3 launch titles taking centre stage.

Small but bespoke audience.  Foreground:  The Library User Group leadership of the library.  Background:  Lovely guests, supporters, fans...  standing up: The Head Librarian Therese; yours truly; and avid young reader Robin.

The launch titles from another angle

Forest Circle Quest.  Note the sherry glass...

Speaking about each of the titles.  Note the laptops on the table.  Both distant authors were in the room via technology; Leslie Hyla Winton Noble by Skype video - though the storm in Pretoria as well as the storm in Durban messed with the reception and he often looked like something by Van Gogh.  Marie Marshall was present on Skype Chat.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CORRECTION: Launch 20 December

Apologies about the details in the previous post.

The launch on 20 December 2012, at 18h00, takes place in the Glenstantia Library (in Constantia Park), c/o Chopin and Duvernoy Rds (you turn UP into Isie Smuts from Garsfontein, and round the circle at the end of Isie Smuts).

Hoping to see you there!

Launching 3 titles

When:  20 December 2012 (Thursday)
Where: Glenstantia Library, Isie Smuts/Duvernoy drive, Constantia Park.
Coordinates:  25°48'7"S   28°17'13"E

Time: 18h

Books:

 

All welcome. 

Author presence: 

• "Freedom Fighter" (Solar Wind 3): Lyz Russo will be present in person to meet people and sign books.
• "Lupa" : Marie Marshall can be contacted via the publishers.  As she lives in Scotland, she will not be present in person but P'kaboo will attempt to have Skype Chat available for readers to meet her online.
• "Forest Circle Quest":  Leslie Hyla Winton Noble can be contacted via the publishers. As he is in Durban, he will not be physically present but P'kaboo will attempt to contact him via Skype too, to attend the launch online.

MERCURY SILVER is LIVE!

This collection of short-stories was submitted by seven different authors:  Widely differing styles, ideas, and effects. 

The book can be bought in the Bookshop at P'kaboo.  You can also request a print-on-demand paperback copy; however please allow some time for production. Within the next few days, the book should become available on Amazon too.

Congratulations to all contributing authors, and thank you.

MERCURY SILVER

... is the title of the collection of great quality short stories we have received from various authors all over.

The stories are still available on our Freestuff Page until the end of tomorrow (the 7th).  After that they will disappear off Freestuff (leaving a few stragglers behind) and reappear shortly as ebook in our shop, and both ebook and paperback on Amazon.

We will keep you posted!

4 new ShortStories and a brand-new Poetry section!

P'kaboo has 4 more Shortstories up (and one still under revision).  Also, please visit our bookshop to inspect the brand-new POETRY division, with pearls of beauty, nature and life's-like-that by Marie Marshall.

Enjoy!

A Tale of Heroes - by Douglas Pearce

Settling Up - by Nick Legg

Get What You Can - by Nick Legg

Outside - by Dr Emma Briant

Naked in the Sea - by Marie Marshall

 

 

Naked in the Sea

...by Marie Marshall is the first book in our Poetry Section. 

Pearl 2:
you secret
enfolded
in salt-flesh
hidden
in a sea
of love-songs 

 ~

Enjoy this book!

7 tips for writing a good blurb - Blurb competition

Blurb-writing is like fly-fishing. Not angling. A reader’s attention in a bookshop or book site is limited, by time restraint, the overwhelming selection, and his attention span.

P’kaboo is running a blurb-writing competition:

Go to the “Freestuff” page of P’kaboo, at www.pkaboo.net/freestuff.html.

1. Write a blurb for any of the short-stories in the short-story project. The three best entries will win a paperback novel.
2. Alternatively, write a deliberately lousy blurb (specify this in the subject line). The three funniest entries each win an e-book from our shop, in pdf format (which every e-reader handles, even the intelligent phones).

Mail your entry to info@pkaboo.net, and specify which part of the competition you are entering for. You may email unlimited entries, and you may participate in either part.

The decision of the judges is final and no negotiations can be entered into.

 

7 Tips for writing a great blurb:

1. Start intriguingly.

2. End by leaving unresolved conflict in the reader. The more tension, the better.

3. Be specific to the story.

4. Include “hooks” (e.g. shoutlines and questions)

5. Spoiler-alert. Beware of telling too much.

6. Keep it short – under 30 seconds to read, between 50 and 100 words. Make every word relevant.

7. Go for the jugular – and leave the reader wondering whether it will be ripped .

Also read here http://www.scribd.com/doc/112540710/7-tips-for-writing-a-good-blurb-Blurb-competition for common mistakes to avoid.