I read a lot and I buy a lot of books. Today I placed an order for limited edition copy of ‘VENGEANCE OF RAVANA’ which is Book #7 and ‘SONS OF SITA’ which is Book #8 in The Ramayana Series by Ashok Banker. Both of which won’t be out in market before the end of the year. Actually Book #8 is supposed to be published in 2011! 🙂 Yay Me!
I ordered the books directly from the author’s site and the process was painless. I just had to give my address, email & name and the books will be shipped to me directly. The best part was that the payment wasn’t made by credit-card during the purchase.
I got a separate email from the author with the payment instructions. The author prefers that the money be sent directly to his bank account and this can be done online or from a cash counter at his bank. The reason I like it is because this way all the money I am giving for the book is actually going to the author as the only cost to them is the cost of shipping and there are no payments to be made to the bank for maintaining a payment portal (Which can be expensive, depending on traffic etc).
BTW, Copies of Book #7 are still available as of the time of this writing so if you are interested check it out and international buyers can purchase the book using a credit card as usual.
In other news a lot of nice books are releasing soon and I can’t wait for them to come out. Here are a few along with their publication dates:
| Book Name | Author Name | Publication Date |
| [Outcast Season 02] Unknown | Rachel Caine | Feb. 3, 2010 |
| [Hollows 08] Black Magic Sanction | Kim Harrison | Feb 23rd, 2010 |
| [Death’s Daughter 02] Cat’s Claw | Amber Benson | Feb 23rd, 2010 |
| [Safehold 04] A Mighty Fortress | David Weber | March 2010 |
| [Paksenarrion] Oath of Fealty | Elizabeth Moon | March 2010 |
| [Mercy 05] Silver Borne | Patricia Briggs | March 30, 2010 |
| [Dresden 12] Changes | Jim Butcher | April 2010 |
| [Raven 05] SpellCrash | Kelly Mccullough | June 2010 |
| [Princess 03] Red Hood’s Revenge | Jim C. Hines | July 6, 2010 |
– Suramya