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Because no one ever tells you these things, and I am always interested, I thought I would share some of our current metrics. 
Book Buyers: Spore Press book readers are 63.5% female, more than 34% are between 35-44 and more 25% are between 45-54, 84% from the US and 6% from the UK. Canada, Australia, Philippines, Germany, Japan, and India all have more than 1%. London, Toronto, Dublin, Omaha, Manchester, Los Angeles, Kahului, Melbourne, New York, Austin, San Francisco are our largest reader cities (I 

feel a tour coming on!).

As I start out on the difficult part of building (yet) another company, I felt some reflection was in order. Our goal is threefold:

The Gorge is a thriller coming out in a few weeks that takes place mainly in a gorge in the middle of the Pisgah National Forest. In fact, the gorge- or rather, the entity that enhabits the gorge, is nearly a character in the book. The problem that we gave the artist was how to convey the sense of sinister content under the cover of the book and it not be just a picture of a few dark mountains and red tinged clouds. Even more, how to bring the flavor of the plot to imagery that will stand out in the marketplace and give us, as publisher, something to market.

As we come up on our first few books out the door after edits, rewrites, and rereads, I thought I would let the public and writers who are considering us in on the process for designing covers for our books. First, we try to match the artist with the content. Some artists are great at everything, but each has a particular kind of material that they espectially connect with. Once the artist is chosen, they are sent the final version of the manuscript along with the sysnopsis and marketing blurb.

Biology isn’t what it used to be.

As the biomedical/biotechnical revolution undermines many of our most basic assumptions regarding the nature of identity, authenticity, and nature itself, biological fiction offers us alternative visions of a world in which these defining assumptions are embraced, abandoned, re-formed, and created anew.

First, I have been reading books in ereaders lately-a lot. And so, we wanted to do a review of all ereaders on the Market, one every few weeks, to point out the pros and cons of each. We limit only to those ereaders that use EINK technology, at they are  supperior to any backlit  LCD screens as far as comfort reading for ore than an hour is concerned.

Today, the Original  Nook - Recently Renamed Nook Classic. Currently priced at $119. A Bargain.

We added a library of books we have recently read. These are the books on our eReaders, and will give you an idea of what we read for fun in our off time (what little there is!). It will also give you an idea of the types of books we are looking for. Why do we link to books published by other publishers? Simple. Our goal is to connect readers with good books. We would like for those books to be ours, but at the end of the day a good book is a good book. And obviously, I am on a zombie kick lately.

We are throwing open the doors. To kick off the launch of our new publishing house, Spore Press LLC, we are accepting both agented and unagented submissions. We are serious about finding new voices, and helping them tell their stories. Feel free to review the Spore Submission Guidelines. However, in a nutshell, we accept full manuscripts dealing with biology-based fiction, from dystopian futurescapes to bioweapon thrillers.