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Recently, Kater Cheek e-published her urban fantasy novel, Seeing Things, in which heroine Kit Melbourne inherits a jewel that shows her the Otherfolk that have infiltrated the University town of Seabingen -- and carries the risk she'll be murdered for it. (I talked about that in the previous post.)

I have to confess Urban Fantasy as a guilty pleasure. I read the first 10 Anita Blake books. I read all the Sookie Stackhouse books. I love the Women of the Otherworld series, not to mention Carrie Vaughn's books. So quite aside from the fact that I love Kater's writing and sense of humor, I was delighted to find a fresh new series with such an appealing heroine. I've been a lucky beta reader on some of the books.

The second book in the series now available on Amazon for the Kindle e-reader. It's called Treemaker.  Kit's moved in with a witch and got a commission to build a faux birch forest for the strange client Ms Yseulta. A vampire is trying to seduce her. Meanwhile, she has to figure how to save her be-spelled, near catatonic boyfriend from certain death.

If anything, it's even better than Seeing Things.
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Some months ago, I'd posted about my new Kindle. Now, one international trip later, I'm a convert.

I was recently out in India, facing a long flight back to the Bay Area. Seven hours in Hong Kong, probably too tired/ sleepy to go into town all the way from Chep Lap Kok. Staying with people in Bangalore, I had an overloaded backpack and was some way from the nearest bookstore.

Kindle to the rescue. I parked myself in front of their computer, opened up my Amazon account, and browsed happily for an hour or so, downloading books as I went with "1-click-purchase." They were all priced at $6-10, about the same as the regular paperback (but needed no backpack space and were instantly available -- at midnight).

Half a dozen books later, I was good to go. I turned off the "wireless mode" and plugged my Kindle in with an adaptor (India uses 240 volts and round-pinned plugs) to ensure it was charged. The charge has lasted me through three books so far, and still hasn't run down.


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