MY E-BOOK EVOLUTION… Confessions of an author of Egypt novels. “I have made the emotional evolution from papyrus – to paper – to e-fiction…”

I never thought I'd say it. I get an added satisfaction from selling my series of ancient Egypt mystery and adventure novels in e-book form rather than in print. For me 'living e-books' bring new life to a long-dead civilization in fiction. Am I just over the dead-tree technology of paper publishing? Not entirely. I love printed books as much as I love bookstores and libraries. However, there's something alive and immediate about e-books that breathes new life into reading - and being read. E-books are fresh and up to date - they avoid the glacial slowness of book publishing and literary agencies. E-books seem to me to be the perfect medium for capturing and sharing the quicksilver nature of ideas. Yet, ironically, there is a permanence about e-books that paper, and even papyrus, could never achieve. E-books don't go out of print. They are forever. They don't yellow, fade, gather mildew, dust and eventually rot. You can read them in the dark and you don't need to angle that bedside lamp just right. You can live a mobile life and have your books. They don't smell like books, true, but neither do they smell like dust. In fact there is some of the permanence about e-books that I admire in the ancient Egyptian civilization itself. So for me it's the perfect way to bring a long dead civilization to life for my readers. BRING ANCIENT EGYPT TO LIFE under your fingertips at AMAZON (Kindle - or paperback if you prefer)