The Way We Read Nowadays

I'm an old-fashioned type of gal.  I like to read a book the physical way.  I love the feel of a book between my hands, and the smell of the pages when it's brand new.  A bit like the way people go wondrous over the smell of a new car.  I probably won't read an e-book.  But I have just signed a contract with my publishers Zeus Publications for my two novels to be published in e-book form, as well as the old fashioned way they are already available.  There's definitely a market for it, ie, travellers.  Also, it occurs to me that people with spinal injury and therefore limited movement in their hands could benefit from this format.  I do a bit of community care work to pay the bills, and I have been learning a little about disabled care.  THere's a guy who works for the company I work for, and he has a quadriplegic client for whom he does some personal care, and takes our for social support.  I'd be interested to know if he is a 'reader' and whether he does it online or via his I-pod.  There's a woman in my book club who has the audio version because she likes to knit, and she therefore indulges both her passions simultaneously.  Anyway, I don't care if people like e-books, physical books, audio books, or having someone sing the book as an opera to them; if it means buying a copy of MY books, then please go right ahead!

I'm enjoying the paid work I do, which is just as well.  For a writer it's great to meet such an interesting lot of people.  They are not a cross-section of the community, but they are all very different in their own way.  One old gentleman whose medication and meals I prepare, when I asked him had he seen service (I noticed he had some 'military'-looking tattoos on his wrists), replied, 'Yeah, I was fighting them chow bastards in Korea.'   Of course, I don't like 'racism', but he would make an interesting character in a story.  So too would another old lady I have to occasionally deal with, with gritted teeth.  If anyone's read 'Dolores Claibourne' by Stephen King, let's just say this woman is the Down Under version of Vera Donovan. 

I've finished the first draft of my third novel, so I've put it aside while I start my fourth.  I'll go back to it shortly; just want a fresh brain when I do.  It's an adult satire, as is my first novel 'Calumny while reading Irvine Welsh', and my second is 'Abernethy', which is young adult.  Read the first chapters online at http://www.zeus-publications.com.  By all mean.  I beg of you.