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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>Dear All,<BR>
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My ears are burning ... FYI, all four books of the <I>Clovermead</I> series are now published: <I>Clovermead, Chandlefort</I>, and <I>Sorrel</I> from Simon & Schuster, and <I>Ursus</I> self-published from CreateSpace, since S&S dropped the series due to lack of sales. My Clovermead webpage gives directions to buying all four:<BR>
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<a href="http://www.home.earthlink.net/~withywindle/ClovermeadHome.htm">http://www.home.earthlink.net/~withywindle/ClovermeadHome.htm</a><BR>
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If you do feel the urge, I’d be glad if you could buy <I>Ursus </I>directly from CreateSpace rather than from Amazon; I get higher royalties that way. (But you may have to pay more postage.) If you feel like asking your local public library to buy <I>Ursus</I>, do go with the urge — you can tell them that it’s available from library book vendors, including Baker & Taylor and (I think) Ingram.<BR>
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Self-publishing is vanity, vanity, but it does get the end of the series out there for people who are interested. I think the fourth book is pretty smooth—production quality not that far off of what S & S provided, and the writing much edited & polished.<BR>
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David</SPAN></FONT>
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