http://urbannordica.com Tue, 27 May 2008 01:44:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, we're sad to say that Chainbreaker didn't make it through to Round 3 in the Bookhabit Unpublished Competition. We were looking good when the voting closed -- holding fifth place -- but in the final tally found we'd dropped nearly twenty places to 24th. Seems there was a bit of ... http://urbannordica.com/archive/bookhabit-endgame There's just over three hours of voting left in the Bookhabit Unpublished Competition. It's been a wild ride, but Chainbreaker is currently holding on to fifth place. Remember that we need to be in the top ten in order to progress to the next round, so if you haven't voted yet, ... http://urbannordica.com/archive/last-call-for-votes In our continuing quest to prove you with as many super-fun formats to enjoy Urban Nordica in as possible, we're proud to present to you the Chainbreaker eBook! The above link will take you to the eBook retailer site, Mobipocket. The download from there uses DRM and costs money (albeit the ... http://urbannordica.com/archive/chainbreaker-the-ebook Well, it's here; Round 2 of the Bookhabit Unpublished competition, and once again we need your help. A whopping sixty books -- Chainbreaker included -- made it through to Round 2, and Bookhabit is looking for the top ten of these in order to progress to the final judging phase. So ... http://urbannordica.com/archive/bookhabit-unpublished-competition-round-2 Well, it was a close one, but in the end Chainbreaker pulled through to round two of the Bookhabit Unpublished Competition. Jesse and I would like to give a huge thanks to everyone who bothered to vote or download the book; you guys rock! There are two more competition rounds before ... http://urbannordica.com/archive/we-made-it Well, there's less than twenty-four hours of voting left to go in the Bookhabit competition, so if you haven't gone out yet to show your support for Chainbreaker, now's your last chance. We're currently still in the running... but only just. Having fallen from first to fifth place. We're up ... http://urbannordica.com/archive/bookhabit-contest-x2-lulu-x1 In the further interest of pursuing the Long Tail, Chainbreaker has now been made available on the eBook website, Bookhabit. Bookhabit charges a nominal fee for downloading 'full' books, but since we're giving Chainbreaker away for free here anyway, we've waived that and the full book is available by clicking "Download ... http://urbannordica.com/archive/chainbreaker-on-bookhabit That's right, dead readers, your favourite neighbourhood modern dark fantasy novel has joined the revolution and gotten itself a Facebook Page. There's not much there at the moment -- I need to go through and prettify it up a bit later -- but we're open and accepting fans so... what're you ... http://urbannordica.com/archive/urban-nordica-vs-facebook (Okay, it's been slightly longer than a week, but bear with me.) [singlepic=43,160,120,,left]So, both Jesse and I are extremely pleased by the fact that since releasing Chainbreaker we've had a respectable 165 uniquely identifiable downloads. That's very cool! 105 of those have been referred in from our news post at deviantART ... http://urbannordica.com/archive/chainbreaker-the-first-week You read that right, the first book of the Urban Nordica series, titled Chainbreaker is now available for download in PDF format. This is, I supposed, what you'd call a beta draft of the novel and here at UN.com we're going to be running a bit of a social experiment. See, ... http://urbannordica.com/archive/chainbreaker-now-available-for-download