If you’re looking for the most up-to-date developments in the e-book sector, even I’d tell you that the blog you want to be reading is TeleRead. Now the site’s coordinator, David Rothman, reports that he’s sold a genre-bending novel called The Solomon Scandals to Tennessee-based Twilight Times Books, which will make the book available in both electronic and trade paperback formats. “Mass paperback, translation and movie rights are available,” Rothman says, “hint, hint.”
The press release describes the novel’s plot elements as “illegal spying on American citizens, an IRS/CIA building collapse, Washington-weird sex scandals, blackmail from the Oval Office, a gossip columnist’s suicide at the Watergate and a car bombing.” Many of which, Rothman adds, he first conceived when he began writing the novel on an electric typewriter in the 1970s… And as his writing technology choices have upgraded, so too have his publication choices; Rothman says Twilight Times will be releasing the novel in DRM-free electronic editions, including the ePub format that has emerged as a likely industry standard in recent years.