{"id":727,"date":"2011-05-24T16:24:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T21:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=727"},"modified":"2011-05-24T16:24:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T21:24:38","slug":"ebook-launch-scorpio-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"ebook launch: Scorpio Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"590\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Scorpio-Risingv11-high-res-image1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-729\" title=\"Scorpio Risingv11 high res image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Scorpio-Risingv11-high-res-image1-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Scorpio-Risingv11-high-res-image1-196x300.jpg 196w, http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Scorpio-Risingv11-high-res-image1.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a>As some   of you know, aside from my \u00e2\u0080\u009cpublic\u00e2\u0080\u009d role as a Vedic astrologer, I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve been a   writer for many years. I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve written articles on astrology and palmistry, had   a couple of animation scripts produced, and published five novels under   pseudonyms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although I\u00e2\u0080\u0099d always planned to keep on   getting books published in the traditional way, in the last couple of years,   technology has been rapidly transforming (ie, crushing) the conventional book   business.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve seen the writing on the wall. The   paper book is dying, and ebooks are filling the void at a much lower cost to   consumers. Therefore, I have joined the revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Two of my novels are now available   immediately in all of the formats used in the most popular ereading devices \u00e2\u0080\u0093   Amazon\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Kindle, the Apple iPad, the Barnes &amp; Noble Nook, the Sony Reader   and others.<\/p>\n<p>By summer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s end, I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll re-issue another   three novels previously published under pseudonyms. Other original works will   follow, including a \u00e2\u0080\u009cNew Age noir\u00e2\u0080\u009d series of which <em>Scorpio Rising<\/em> is the first installment starring my   astrologer\/palmist hero.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Scorpio Rising:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An astrologer investigates the\u00c2\u00a0killing of a New York City\u00c2\u00a0heiress, only to discover that\u00c2\u00a0her death is linked to two other\u00c2\u00a0murders on the same day: a\u00c2\u00a0dot-com millionaire in San\u00c2\u00a0Francisco, and the team leader\u00c2\u00a0of a government counter-terrorist project in Los Alamos, New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Only $2.99<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To sample or purchase\u00c2\u00a0<strong><em>Scorpio Rising<\/em><\/strong> for\u00c2\u00a0the Kindle, go to Amazon:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Scorpio-Rising-ebook\/dp\/B0050IOY6I\">www.amazon.com\/Scorpio-Rising-ebook\/dp\/B0050IOY6I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For all other formats (including PC), go to Smashwords:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/59231\">www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/59231<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>To see more about my books, please visit <strong>www.sextile.com\/books<\/strong>. You can also befriend me on Facebook and visit my Navamsa or Sextile pages.\u00c2\u00a0You can also connect with me on LinkedIn, or follow me on Twitter.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you know, aside from my \u00e2\u0080\u009cpublic\u00e2\u0080\u009d role as a Vedic astrologer, I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve been a writer for many years. I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve written articles on astrology and palmistry, had a couple of animation scripts produced, and published five novels under pseudonyms.&nbsp; Although I\u00e2\u0080\u0099d always planned to keep on getting books published in the traditional way, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7,32,37],"tags":[41,38,40,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}