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Sci-fi novel among 100,000 downloadable titles
He is an accountant by training, a science administrator by vocation and a scientist by passion.
And now, in this latest addition to his professional evolution, Ben Parris has become a science-fiction novelist by download.
“Wade of Aquitaine,” the Hicksville, N.Y., resident’s romantic fantasy about time travel into ninth-century Europe, is among 100,000 titles that recently became available from through its new wireless, handheld e-book reader, Kindle. The $399, fast-selling device began selling — and then sold out — in the weeks before Christmas.
Parris, 46, executive director of the Long Island Museum of Science and Technology, says the book’s debut as wirelessly published and delivered literature marks an important achievement for him as a first-time novelist. Newsday
Conference to honor author Stephen White
Left Coast Crime, an annual mystery conference featuring writers from the two westernmost time zones, will be Thursday through Sunday at Denver’s Adam’s Mark Hotel with hometown author Stephen White as guest of honor.
The event features four days of panels featuring more than 100 authors. Information at . The Denver Post
First Line
Beet by Roger Rosenblatt
“‘Don’t bother to come home if you still have a job,’ Livi Porterfield called to her husband as he hustled their two groggy children into the 243,000-miles-and-still-rattling Accord, to drive them to school. He blew her a kiss.
“The job she referred to was on the faculty of Beet College, forty miles north of Boston, where eighteen hundred handpicked, neurotically competitive undergraduates were joined with one hundred and forty-one handpicked, neurotically competitive professors to instruct them. Beet was a typical small New England college, fortified with brick and self-regard — the sort of place people call charming when they mean sterile.”
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