I dropped some books off at House of Hero's Comics in Oshkosh. Scott had radically redesigned the store since I was last there. The coolest change was building new book racks on wheels so they can be moved out of the way for movies and special events.
It's a great store. Very comfortable and warm place to shop if you are in the area.
Heard from a couple of readers today. Both loved the book. One finished to discover it was 3 in the morning. The other, a trained martial artist, wondered how much research I put in to get the sword fighting right. The answer is, I made it up. My main inspiration was the 2003 movie, The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi. I recall, on the DVD extras, writer / director Takeshi Kitano said he wanted the sword fights to be realistic and be over within moments of starting. It made sense, so I brought that idea into Gladiator Girl.
Gladiator Girl is on the Kindle!
Amazon has some nice tools for prepping Kindle versions of manuscripts, actually it's a .mobi version. Combined with the new Scrivener 2.0 that integrates the KindleGen command line application into it's manuscript compiling interface, it was a tweak-it-until-it's-perfect (but it never is!) dream to set up.
The Nook, not so much. I'm still working on that one.
