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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Fictionwise.com
Signs Harlan Ellison for eBook Short Fiction
Thirty-five award-winning and early stories from literary
master
October
3, 2000 - Chatham, NJ - Fictionwise.com announced today that legendary
author Harlan Ellison has granted Fictionwise.com rights to 35 of
his short stories for release as eBooks. The works include award-winning
Ellison stories as well as works that are no longer in print and difficult
to find.
Ellison
has been called "one of the great living American short story writers"
by the Washington Post; and the Los Angeles Times said, "It's long
past time for Harlan Ellison to be awarded the title: 20th Century
Lewis Carroll."
In a career spanning more than 40 years, Ellison has been recognized
for the immense diversity of his writing. He has won more major
awards than any other living fantasist, including the Edgar Allan
Poe award twice (mystery), the Bram Stoker award six times (horror),
the Hugo Award 8˝ times and the NebulaŽ Award three times (science
fiction/fantasy), the Silver Pen for Journalism, as well as awards
for his extensive work in television and film. Ellison has published
over 1,700 stories, essays, columns, and novels.
Harlan
Ellison commented: "Watching all the blue-sky IPO websites come and
go, promising the riches of Araby but delivering ashes and excuses,
functioning only as sucking black holes draining off investment capital,
it is some small miracle--in my view--the way Fictionwise.com operates
with calm, determined professionalism to put the work out there on
the web. If one needs a metaphor for their way of doing business,
for their attention to detail and quality, their scrupulous honesty
and respect for the creative talent in the milieu that is lousy with
hot-air hustlers, adolescent hacker-thieves and just plain inept buffoons,
try this: the 300 Spartans who took on all of Xerxes' vast and endless
armies. Here's wishing Fictionwise.com a long and smooth highway."
Fictionwise.com (http://www.fictionwise.com)
launched the first set of four Ellison stories today in the most
popular eBook formats for handheld devices and personal computers.
Additional stories will be added over the coming weeks.The Volume
3 and Volume 4 Award Nominated Stories Bundles include Hugo and
NebulaŽ award nominated stories from Kristine Katherine Rusch, Kate
Wilhelm, Mike Resnick, Nancy Kress, Geoffrey A. Landis, Gardner Dozois
and John Kessel. Volume 3 contains 6 stories and Volume 4 contains
7 stories. "We're not stopping here," commented Pendergrast. "We've
already acquired enough titles to make another volume of award winners
and another volume of award nominated stories. They are in production
now, and are expected to be available in the coming weeks."
"Ellison's work is so wide-ranging that he defies genre boundaries,"
said Stephen Pendergrast, co-publisher at Fictionwise. "This diversity
is well represented in the titles he has granted to Fictionwise.com.
They include mystery, horror, fantasy, science fiction, mainstream
literature, and even a western. We are very pleased to be able to
offer Harlan Ellison's work to our thousands of members."
About Fictionwise.com
Fictionwise.com (http://www.fictionwise.com)
focuses on selling award-winning and high quality short fiction
eBooks by top authors in multiple formats, including Acrobat, Rocket,
Palm (for Palm devices and Win CE), and Microsoft Reader. Most Fictionwise.com
eBooks cost between 39 cents to two dollars. Fictionwise.com has
hundreds of inexpensive titles from leading contemporary fiction
authors, including Robert Silverberg, Nancy Kress, Damon Knight,
Mike Resnick, Michael Swanwick, James Patrick Kelly, Pamela Sargent,
Tom Purdom, and Kate Wilhelm, amongst others. In most cases, Fictionwise.com
has the largest short fiction eBook collections available for its
authors. Fictionwise.com currently has rights to nearly 400 short
fiction eBooks, with an estimated 500 available by the end of this
year.
Website: (http://www.fictionwise.com);
Contact: Scott Pendergrast at scott@mindwise.com or 973-701-6770
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