June Book Blast: 8 Sizzling Thrillers from 8 Best-selling Authors, Only 99c
Get Your Copy Today from Amazon or Smashwords (99c), or check them out on Good Reads The Hot Box collection is a selection of thrillers from a variety of sub-genres, including Crime, Historical, Military, Paranormal, Espionage, Suspense and Pirate! The best...
Book Review: Baby, by Kelly J. Accini
Baby is one of the more unusual books I've read, combining strong elements from two genres seldom seen together: western and science fiction. There is a whole lot of other influences, though, including thriller; romance; environmentalism; religion and philosophy. Not...
Writing the Perfect Simile
A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject Well, apologies for the slightly misleading title, but I'm sure you'll agree there are some rather... unique similes here. My friend Nat Russo shared this on Facebook (originally created by...
My Disappearing Act
This will be one of those personal posts I mentioned the other day, to apologize for not replying to any comments during the last few days. I've been away on the island of Tinos, and fully intended to answer comments etc, but every time I tried to connect to...
Hugh Howey on Indie Publishing and Marketing
For those unfamiliar with Hugh Howey, he’s a very successful hybrid author who’s been behind the Author Earnings revolution – the publication of estimates on the financial side of Indie publishing. His main contribution was to help find reliable data on the...
Self-publishing: Revolutionary or Reactionary?
Continuing my thoughts on Hachette vs. Amazon, I read a post on The Guardian’s blog, called “Self-publishing is not revolutionary, it’s reactionary.” As the title suggests, the main point the post makes is that, despite what people think, self-publishing is, in fact,...
Why Publishers Should Love Amazon’s Indie Revolution
If you have been following the Hachette vs. Amazon saga, you might be excused for thinking it’s a battle between Heaven’s angels and Hell’s spawns. Depending on your source, Hell is either Amazon (assuming you’re reading newspapers and traditional media) or Hachette...
4 More Self-publishing tips
Continuing this weekend's special , I'm concluding yesterday's post on 4 Simple Self-Publishing Tips with 4 More Self-publishing tips! The inspiration for this second installment came to me while reading Kristen Lamb’s blog and her blog post 5 Mistakes that Kill...
4 Simple Self-publishing tips
I'm starting today a weekend special on self-publishing, with four simple tips that can help you succeed. When I self-published my first book, I was confident that I could easily put it forward, based on my professional career as web developer and marketeer. I...
Ideas for Great Blog Posts
When I was considering starting a blog, I worried that I would run out of ideas pretty soon. Somehow, I still manage to find something to write about almost every day. The other day I read a post on Jeremiah Walton’s blog called “10 types of blog posts for writers...
Tao Te Ching, Greek Style
I apologize in advance to my English-speaking friends, in case this post is of limited interest to them. I promise to make it up in my next one. I wanted to share that I have now published my Greek translation of the Tao Te Ching. This was an important move for me,...
Thank you!
The new version of my sci-fi collection, The Power of Six, is now live. There are a number of differences with the old one. The new subtitle explains the main one: the new version contains an extra story by Amos M. Carpenter, who is now a published author, as...