It's a whole new way to market a book - with a direct writer to reader connection.

CLOUDS Publishing Experiment Space™

Wikipedia (This includes more about "CLOUDS" as well as background details on Bil. Alvernaz)

A writer is publishing an eBook to a web space.

Readers can:

• read the eBook as chapters are published.
• also "follow along" in the writer's online journal as the eBook is being written.
• see "behinds the scenes" of the writing and publishing of an eBook.

This publishing experiment is based on Human Computer Interaction (HCI) that takes center stage with an eBbook called "CLOUDS," now available on the web for anyone to read. This "space" was created by the author, Bil. Alvernaz, as a way to expose his copyrighted novel to anyone who would like to read it. He calls it a new "writer to reader" way to market and vend a book - no strings attached! In addition to reading a large portion of the opening section of the eBook, readers can also "follow along" behind-the-scenes in an Online Journal (some would call it a "blog") as Alvernaz continues writing the eBook. "CLOUDS" will be published in May.

The CLOUDS Publishing Experiment Space™ "went live" at midnight on New Year's Eve. The Prologue and first six chapters are currently available to read. Additional chapters will be posted as they are completed. The author's online Journal will have new entries on a regular basis so readers can "watch" the process of the eBook being written as well as read the author's insights, exasperations, and daily "goings on."

Anyone who likes the eBook can preorder it directly from the author. There will be two options for buying the eBook - preordering it and then receiving the eBook when it is published in May; or the "pay as you go option" of purchasing it chapter by chapter as they are written.

The concept of a "space" on the Internet ties to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Alvernaz wanted to make the writing and publishing of his eBook an HCI experience, one to "pull in" and engage the reader in a "space free floating out there on the web like clouds." He summed it up this way, "There is much interest in eBooks, so why not a whole new way for a writer to work directly with the reader to expose and sell an eBook? No publishers or middlemen required!"

“CLOUDS” is an novel about reading clouds. We've all "seen things" in clouds. "CLOUDS" bridges the gap from images and shapes in clouds to actually being able to read messages as well as find answers in the clouds. Gaining new mental abilities and the insight to "see into the clouds" is only part of this story. The main character in this epic novel explains how to crack the "fabric of heaven" and explore all of which ties everything together in the Universe ... and it is all there in the clouds ... it has been all along, right in front (well, above) all of us. This narrative takes you back and forth from modern day to ancient civilizations where you will see how the knowledge to read clouds (and what really happened) was hidden by all of the disinformation those civilizations left for us to "conveniently" find in artifacts and relics.

This story begins with the discovery of a secret room filled with books, papers, journals, and primordial devices ... all of which unlock what has been cryptically hidden over the ages. You then follow along as the main character, through the discoveries from that secret room, in his grandfather’s journals and “collections,” unravels mysteries and truths purposely “lost” for the ages.

The CLOUDS Publishing Experiment Space™ states, "there are no publishers, corporations, weasels, or entities (government or otherwise) involved in the Experiment (and Space) other than the author and the reader."

For additional information, contact the author at bil@alvernaz.com or 512-351-7845.