Tips on starting a Newsletter

Feb 11, 2015 | Marketing

Newsletters can be tricky. As a rule, people avoid subscribing to a mailing list because it eats up their time, and they don’t know how frequently you will email them. A second but equally big concern is that you will share their addresses with spammers....

Book Feature: Fleeced by Julia Wills

Feb 9, 2015 | Interviews Features and Reviews

Julia Wills is the author of Fleeced, a lovely children’s book that has won excellent reviews (and has a killer cover). She kindly agreed to share with us some more information on her book. Take it, Julia! 🙂 The Ancient Greek heroes… For centuries they’ve...

Conclusions from Author Earnings, January 2015

Feb 6, 2015 | Publishing

You may remember that I study Hugh Howey’s and Data Guy’s quarterly Author Earning Reports religiously, so that I can offer you the highlights. The Passive Guy alerted me to the January 2015 report (if you don’t already subscribe to his free...

Author Feature: Loren Weaver

Feb 4, 2015 | Interviews Features and Reviews

Let me start by saying that I just love Loren Weaver. She is one of those few that have not only read everything I’ve ever written, but has also reviewed it on both Amazon and Goodreads. That alone makes her one of my very best friends. 🙂 However, getting to...

Advertise with Amazon: a Step-by-step Tutorial

Feb 1, 2015 | Marketing

I was reading Chris McMullen’s excellent (as usual) post on Amazon’s new advertising service, and thought I’d give it a go. My monthly advertising budget is $100, but I hadn’t spent anything in January. So, I had this month’s and the...

The Genesis Saga Tour

Jan 31, 2015 | Blog hops tours & reblogs

This is a guest post by my fellow #RRBC Board member and all-around great fellow, John Fioravanti. It is part of his Genesis Saga blog tour. Take it, John! The Genesis Saga Tour I’m grateful to my host of this final post of THE GENESIS SAGA TOUR, and to Nonnie Jules...

Author Feature: Jonathan Bergeron

Jan 30, 2015 | Interviews Features and Reviews

I met Jonathan Bergeron on Twitter. As a Marine Corp veteran, he is the unusual kind of author who can write  battle scenes drawing on actual experience. That alone warrants him an author feature! He has published a science fiction novel, Android Hunters – on a...