My Facebook Ads Experience and 3 Marketing Rules
This is the promised followup post to Barbara Hinske's Facebook Really Can Help You Sell Books and my Can Facebook Really Help You Sell Books? posts, and the first of a 3-part special on Facebook ads. I spent some $350 on Facebook ads in December with the twin aim of...
A Battle of Wits: Shakespearean Insults Infographics
Seeing how much you enjoyed my post, Of Canker-blossomed Fishwives and Faithless Prunes: Creative Insults, here are a couple of Infographics and photos with Shakespearean insults. This proves that (a) Shakespeare was beyond doubt a creative genius, and (b) you can...
How Many Users on Social Media?
The Social Media Hat recently published the latest numbers for social media users. So, how many active monthly users does each social medium have? Facebook: 1.55 billion As expected, Facebook is the largest and most active of all social networks. YouTube: 1 billion As...
Musiville Needs Your Love: Free Download
Musiville, the second children's book in the award-winning Niditales series created by Dimitris Fousekis and me, will be free between January 27th and 31st on Amazon. This is to to encourage people to review the book, so if you've read it and enjoyed it, please...
The Shortest Stories
I found in the Guardian a fascinating article: Readers in Grenoble can now nibble fiction instead of vending machine snacks, after publisher Short Édition introduced eight short-story dispensers around the French city. The free stories are available at the touch of a...
9 Tips to Keeping Your Series Fresh
Writing a long series is hard work: how do you churn out book after book while keeping it all fresh and avoiding repetition? Author Toby Neal had some interesting thoughts on the subject, which she shared in her post, Writing more than ten books in a series and...
A Dastardly Kind of Book Piracy
I've already written about piracy. Twice, in fact: in Har! How to Deal with Book Piracy and in Should I fear Piracy? Insights from the PWC report. In both cases, I advised people to keep calm about it. There is a kind of piracy that ticks me off, though. That of...
How to Price your E-book to Both Get New Readers and Make a Profit
This is a recurring theme, as I've already posted twice on the subject: Pricing your ebook: Is free the new paid? and How to price your Indie book both deal with this. I'm writing about it again, as Written Word Media recently published an excellent post on pricing...
Gustav Scholer: The First Head Coroner of New York
Dedicated to my crime author friend, Sue Coletta, whose excellent blog is chock-full with tips for crime authors, today's post will introduce you to the Honorable Gustav Scholer; the now forgotten first Head Coroner of NYC. It is based on research conducted by Luke...
Mary Natalie: The Baby. The Legend. The Photos.
Since you all enjoyed my post on Mary Natalie so much the other day, I thought I'd share some proper photos of her. After the previous one, I hope she keeps this in mind when it's time to ship me off to that home... If these look lovely, let me caution you that Mary...
Book Feature: Sought After Blood Lines, The Escapist by Eva Xanthopoulos
Eva Xanthopoulos has just published her first book, The Escapist. This is the first book in the Sought After Blood Lines series, with book 2, The Peacekeeper, expected summer 2016. She writes in a YA Fantasy genre, with Romantic, Utopian, and Dystopian elements....
Mister Phlegmatic Meets the Baby
Dedicated to my blonde author friend, Lucy, this post was inspired by a friend commented that I was rather phlegmatic in my approach to the new baby. I wasn't sure what she meant, as, in fact, I feel ecstatic about it. So, I looked it up. The word comes from...