July Book Offers and Events
I have now updated this post with even more July events, so check out the new entries! Today, I thought I'd let you know of a number of book offers and events that take place between today and the end of July. I even take part in one - the Rafflecopter Extravaganza -...
Cover Reveals: The Power of Six Redesigned, Infinite Waters
Remember how I mentioned that I'm redesigning all of of my book covers? Today, I can share with you the new cover for The Power of Six: 6+1 short science fiction stories. The redesign has been by the very talented Alexios Saskalidis of 187designz. Buy The Power of...
Author Feature: Gisela Hausmann, Protector of Indies
Gisela is a self-confessed protector of Indies. Namely, of their wallets. She has made it her personal crusade to protect them from marketers promising the moon and delivering, well, cheese I guess (fine, so similes are not my thing, but you get my drift). As this is...
How a First-time Author Sold 12,000 Copies in her Two First Months
This amazing claim belongs to Kim Linwood, author of Rebel: A Stepbrother Romance. I found it in a recent blog post by my friend, MMJaye, and just had to confirm it was not a typo. Turns out that Kim had published a couple of short stories on Amazon to wet her feet...
Veracity Challenge, Courtesy of Erika Kind
Erika Kind, a particularly lovely friend of this blog, has challenged me to something called a Veracity Challenge. The rules are pretty straight-forward: Write a paragraph without using a single adjective. Keep the link of the original Veracity Challenge in your post...
Call to Arms – Jackie Weger’s take
Jackie Weger is more than an author of great romance novels; she's a tireless supporter of Indies, both on her own and through her eNovel Authors at Work group. Jackie has written a score of posts detailing her (rather extensive) marketing experience. As she includes...
Get your Runaway Smile Tee-shirt here (or Design your Own)
The awesome tee shirts below are courtesy of Alexios Saskalidis, of 187desingz. He designed them for the Runaway Smile Book Presentation last week. Michelle gave me the idea of sharing the design with all of you, so that you can print your own tees, if you so desire....
Runaway Smile Book Presentation
I gave a book presentation on Monday, to celebrate Runaway Smile's 2015 International Book Awards award, and officially kick off its launch into the Greek market. Sadly, the political situation overshadowed the event, and only a few journalists showed up. Still, we...
Reports of a Shrinking US eBook Market Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Following my analyses on the state of publishing, which I started with my posts, 2004-2014: How the E-book Changed Adult Fiction and What we Learn from The Publishers Association’s Statistics Yearbook 2014, this just came in, through the always excellent (and...
Trillion-dollar Towel Reviews
I saw the other day in The Independent that Amazon is selling this 100 per cent cotton towel for only 0.8 trillion dollars (plus $4.49 shipping) - a steal. Naturally, I had to share. No, not for the towel itself, much as I can imagine everyone leaving this page to...
Awkward Moments in Children’s Books
Old-time followers of my blog may remember my post titled Worst Book Titles Ever. I recently saw these old children's books in Skai's website, and just had to share. Enjoy, and apologies in advance for my cringe-worthy comments! There's a word for that, bad Teddy!...
99c Deals for Effrosyni Moschoudi’s Books
DISCOVER THE LADY OF THE PIER TRILOGY Today, I have a great recommendation for you, especially if you are pining for a beach holiday! Greek author Effrosyni Moschoudi is releasing book 2 in her trilogy this June, and what’s more, books 1 and 2 are currently only 99c!...