Pearseus: Rise of the Prince Free Days
"Game of Thrones Meets Dune" This is a reminder that Rise of the Prince, Book 1 of the epic fantasy/sci-fi series Pearseus, will be free between November 17th and 20th, as well on Cyber Monday (November 30). This is the perfect opportunity to start reading the series...
The 50 Best Books of 2015: What’s that all about?
Last week, I asked you wonderful people to nominate my work for the Best Indie Books of 2015 competition. And boy did you oblige! Which goes to prove, once again, how lucky I am to have such great followers. Thank you! I now have some more information on the...
Holiday Book Marketing: a Holiday Cheat Sheet
Taylor of the Written Word Media has written an excellent post titled, Holiday Book Marketing: An Author’s Guide to Black Friday and Beyond that lists all the remaining holidays of 2015. Why is that important? Well, people are in buying moods. Authors can take...
Fly Me to the Moon (and Back)
November 14, 1969. Lightning strikes the mighty Saturn 5 rocket carrying the crew of Apollo 12 as it was steadily ascending into the Florida sky. Sixteen seconds later, proving an old saying wrong, a second bolt of lightning struck the spacecraft. Still, the mission...
Amazon Pulls Books Because of Wrong Keywords
As the Bad Luck Detective informs us, Amazon removed thousands of books from their site on November 5th. Books were removed because of three keywords located in the title’s information page in the keywords section: Free, Bestseller and Kindle. It didn’t matter if your...
Help Needed: Nominate Runaway Smile for the Best Indie Book of 2015
Read free.ly is running the Best Indie Book of 2015 competition, and I need your help. Please consider nominating either my children's book, Runaway Smile, or my short stories collection Infinite Waters for the competition - whichever you've read and enjoyed. The good...
Can Facebook Really Help You Sell Books?
Following from yesterdays's post on pacing your Free Promos on Facebook to avoid getting banned, here is a second post on the subject. As you may recall from my Call to Arms survey, Facebook didn't do well in promotions. Because of their high cost, Facebook ads ranked...
Pace your Free Promos on Facebook, or Risk Getting Banned
In my post, Promo Results: Using Free Promo Services I included a number of Facebook groups where you can promote your free days/sale for free. Today, I discovered on KBoards a caveat that you should be aware of. According to author J.E. Taylor, posting the exact same...
Anatomy of a (Kindle) Reader
Written Word Media has produced a wonderful infographic of a Kindle owner. Hopefully, the interesting data included will give you plenty of marketing ideas. Here are my main takeaways from it: Friends and family offer the best word-of-mouth. This can be terribly hard,...
November Book Deals: Free Books and Cash
Choosy Bookworm has partnered with eNovel Authors at Work to bring you a month long celebration with great books, great book deals, and let’s not forget the great giveaways! Check out today’s featured authors and books, then head on over to the event page and enter to...
A Standard Form Rejection Letter Worth Mentioning
As The Passive Voice points out, nothing can ruin one's day faster than receiving the dreaded rejection letter. Nothing, that is, except for receiving the standard form rejection letter, a lifeless kick to the guts aimed en masse at a pool of unsuitables who are, it...
Writers, Bibliotheraphy and Psychiatric Disorders
There may be an overlap between the genetic components of creativity and those of some psychiatric disorders, according to a new study that came to my attention courtesy of the Passive Guy. In the study, researchers looked at genetic material from more than 86,000...