Marketing Your Indie Book with Paid Ads
This is a guest post by the wonderful Tara Sparling. Tara loves data and graphs, especially those relating to book marketing and sales. If you haven't already done so, do visit her blog - just politely refuse any hot beverages she may offer you (sorry, inside joke). ...
How to Use Global Links: GeoRiot and BookLinker Partner Up
Update: GeoRiot is now geni.us. Find out more! I came across this quote the other day, by GeoRiot CEO, Jesse Lakes: “We have watched BookLinker grow and do amazing things in the Amazon book space. We couldn’t be happier about acquiring their service. Both GeoRiot and...
A First Look at Advertising with Amazon
I'm sure you remember my step-by-step tutorial on how to advertise with Amazon. Three weeks later, I have some preliminary results, which, as promised, I'm sharing with you, so that you can learn from my mistakes. In a nutshell: I've failed. The experiment has so far...
Pearseus: Vigil Just Released
Yay, exciting stuff! Pearseus: Vigil has now been released to into the wild to fend for itself on Amazon. This marks the rebranding of Rise of the Prince as book #1 in the series, with Mad Water now being #2 and Vigil #3. As per your suggestion, Pearseus: Schism has...
If you enjoy writing, write!
Ever since I remember myself, I have enjoyed writing. At school, many of my classmates dreaded essay-writing, whereas I could count on my essays to be read in class. So, when I finished highschool, I figured I’d try writing for a living. Expecting words of praise, I...
Cover Reveal: Pearseus, Vigil
After long deliberation and thanks to your valuable feedback, I have tried another variation on Vigil's cover: The background color is close to #3, only a tad lighter, in order to work with the text's red hues. However, so many of you liked #1, that I've decided to...
Author Feature: Sue Coletta
You may have noticed Sue Coletta hanging around and offering her take on my posts. As a crime author, her mind works in unusual ways. In fact, I was recently blown away (not literally, thank goodness) by her free "" booklet and the creativity involved. I’m not sure I...
Help me Choose Vigil’s Cover!
My good friends, I need your help again. I have designed three different variations on the cover for Pearseus: Vigil, and I need your help to choose which one to use. This was my first attempt. I like it, but Electra complained that it was too similar to Schism; as...
Pearseus: Vigil ARCs now available!
Exciting news! Pearseus: Vigil is finished! I now have to prepare the book cover and actually publish it, but in the meantime I wanted to offer a free Advance Reading Copy (ARC) to my blog friends. Anyone who's interested in reading and (hopefully) reviewing it is...
Your Fish Has Got Away and other Unusual Translations
The original, short version of this post was written for the Book Marketing Tools blog. This longer version was written as a guest post for Vanessa Finaughty's blog. One of the best ideas of Douglas Adams had to be the Babelfish. Just stick it into your ear and presto...
Sex and Dinner: A Valentine’s Day Short Story
“How about sex and dinner?” she asked, her throaty voice sending tingles to play on the fine hairs on his neck. She rubbed one fine, slender foot on her lengthy leg, to stress her point. Her audacity caught his breath. They hardly knew each other, having met only a...
My Book Marketing Secret
This is a guest post I wrote for Chris, the Story Reading Ape's blog, and it describes my marketing strategy - which is really very simple. In fact, it can be summed up as follows: Be real, be fun, be helpful. If you do that, people will buy your books simply because...