Publishing
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Thank you to Jillian Dodd
Ten days ago, many of you saw my post here that 99 authors had book 99 books on sale, each for 99 cents. It was quite a sale, and readers bought and downloaded literally tens of thousand of books dirt cheap over the holidays. What you may not know is that the event was organized [...]
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Just Remember to Breathe, Publishing, Writing
Four days only: three great books for 99 cents
Everybody’s got angst about Black Friday, and shopping, or not shopping, blah blah. Instead of standing in line in the cold and getting all stressed out, why not relax and read a good book? Four days only, these three contemporary romances are discounted to 99 cents! Check it out here: Bouquet Toss by Melissa Brown [...]
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Lengths – Coming soon from Liz Reinhardt and Steph Campbell
A while back I posted a review of Grounding Quinn by Steph Campbell, a book I thoroughly enjoyed. Stephanie is back, along with Liz Reinhardt (author of Forgiving Trinity and the Brenna Blixen trilogy of YA books) with a new title, which will be out sometime next month. Both of them are fantastic authors, so [...]
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MobiPocket, Amazon, and Why I’m not Dooooomed!
So here’s what happened. Way back in January 2008, I hit a brainstorm. My thought at the time was: I’m a really obscure writer, with what I think is a great idea for a book. Can’t get many people to buy it? I’ll just give it away! At the time, this was a fairly novel idea, and [...]
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Serialized novels? Looking for feedback
The good news is, since the beginning of January I’ve gone from being 1/3 complete on Insurgent to 2/3rd complete… nearly 30,000 words written in the last 5 days. It’s exciting to be moving along this quickly, and now there is no question that I’ll have the first draft completed in the next few months. [...]
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Book Reviews, Publishing, Republic
50 Reviews
Republic finally hit 50 reviews on Amazon.com just the other day. I’m not sure why this feels like a milestone to me, but oddly enough it does. The book’s been out for three years, and seems to be selling better now than it ever has before. This is a good thing. And while not everyone [...]
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New Years Action: Giving away my book for free
I’ve never been one for New Years resolutions. Quit smoking? Yeah, right. However, a New Years action I can deal with. Here’s the plan: starting today, I’m going to be giving away the ebook version of Republic for free. No more sample chapters, partial books that end in the middle, none of that. You can download [...]
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How podcasting and free content is changing the publishing landscape
There’s a great piece in this morning’s Broward-Palm Beach New Times about J.C. Hutchins, who has been podcasting his 7th Son series over at Podiobooks.com. The most important quote: sleep is for pussies. J.C. is way ahead of me in terms his podcast — 20,000 listeners, compared to my measly few hundred to date. but [...]
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Prayer at Rumayla selected as book of the month
The Podler Book Review today selected Prayer at Rumayla as the book of the month! Thank you!
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Another step
Another step I finished the second draft of “Murphy’s War” today. Hooray! Now its time to work on the third draft. I’m actually taking a couple of days off from that project to work on brainstorming my next one. What kills me is that I’ve got four or five projects I want to get started [...]
