Monthly Archives: April 2014

New Book Bubbles

 

315651_570792492953267_1687034868_nSince I first introduced you to Bublish and the concept of book bubbles, I’ve added a number of new bubbles for my short story The Final Push. If you haven’t read my original post on Bublish (which I’m sure no one of the planet has, and Google analytics can prove it), here’s a recap: 

 

Bublish is a unique book-discovery website that uses “book bubbles” to create an interface between authors and readers. The bubbles contain excerpts from the text alongside author insights, and the author can create many bubbles for each book, thus offering a series of excerpts. There is also an author bio with photo, a link to his or her website, an image of the book cover, and links to buy the book.

 

Added features for authors include addition of bubble links to the Bublish Twitter stream, Twitter promotions called #SampleSaturday and #SampleSunday, where links to the previous week’s bubbles are added to their stream several times a day over the weekend, and inclusion of those links in the Bublish floating bookstore, which takes place on Mondays over a number of social media platforms.

 

Membership for readers and authors is free, but there is now an author upgrade that provides additional services and programs (check it out here). I have not upgraded yet, so I cannot comment on the upgrade, but it looks like useful stuff.

 

If you are a reader, use the links below to view my book bubbles and read excerpts from my story. If you are an author with a book to market, take a look at the bubbles to see if Bublish might be of interest to you.

 

http://bit.ly/1c2Jq5b     Author Insight

http://bit.ly/1eRpgyl     Mike Higgins meets John Doe

http://bit.ly/1f9N6Y6     Student doctor Higgins evaluates John Doe

http://bit.ly/1eeCtoq    Higgins successfully intubates John Doe

http://bit.ly/1nhjRUi    John Doe is bleeding internally

http://bit.ly/1bwvbvU    Higgins returns home to find darkness and pain

http://bit.ly/PBti7F    Higgins laments his wife’s condition

http://bit.ly/1fqh7Gp    John Doe has been admitted to the trauma service

 

If you decide to view any of these book bubbles, let me know what you think.

  

The Me, Myself, and I Interview – Part 4

    In part three of this interview, I described a spectacular (and quite morbid) ER thoracotomy, one of the more dramatic surgical cases I performed in my career. In part four, I present a case of a young pregnant woman who was referred to the surgical service with sudden onset of headaches, palpitations, and sweating whenever her… Continue Reading

Spare Parts, and Broken Hearts

  A damaged cop (ho hum). Clones bred for replacement body parts (wait a minute). Flying malls that function as cities (what?). These are the main elements of Michael Marshall Smith’s dystopian noir thriller Spares.    Rapt-addicted ex-cop, Jack Randall, has dropped off the grid following a great personal tragedy. He takes a job as caretaker of one of the farms that houses clones (the “spares”… Continue Reading