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Other Places to Find Good Books: Kickstarter and Other Crowdfunding

Leave a Comment / Reading / November 10, 2024 / Indiegogo, Kickstarter, Patreon / 4 minutes of reading

If you’ve been in the book community for any length of time, you probably already know that publishing has transformed in a huge way. Digital books, self-publishing platforms, and audiobook giants have given authors so many new avenues to share their stories with you. But let’s step off the well-trodden paths of traditional publishing and big online bookstores for a moment and explore a more exciting alternative: crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and Patreon.

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Other Places to Find Good Books: Direct Sales

Reading / May 19, 2024 / Book Bundles / 6 minutes of reading

This is Part Nine of a series: The current economy, world-wide, would be better served, everyone keeps telling us, if we buy local, and buy direct. But we (you and me) buy ebooks. How do you buy them locally? Buying from an author, when they offer their books for sale directly from their site, is

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Are Historical Romances Really Dead This Time?

2 Comments / Historical Romance, Indie Publishing, The Romance Industry / May 12, 2024 / 4 minutes of reading

I first was drawn to historical romances because of two things. One was, absolutely, the dresses. A woman looks so much more womanly in some of the dresses she gets to swan around in, depending on which historical period you get to write in. And with her breasts and waist emphasized the way most of

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I Was Going to Rant…

2 Comments / Just Slightly Off Topic, Watch Out - I'm Ranting / May 5, 2024 / Equal rights, feminism, Tradwives / 7 minutes of reading

I sometimes feel that I’m very much behind a lot of cultural shifts and trends — I hear about them years after they’ve got rolling. But there’s an advantage in that: I only spend attention bandwidth on events and phenomena that look like they’re going to stick around. Like the recent wild bear/strange man in

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The Highest Glass Bridge in the World

Uncategorized / April 28, 2024 / Albano Pass, Georgia, Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon bridge / 2 minutes of reading

You KNOW I’m going to put this into a book somewhere! I came across my notes about this bridge in my notebooks this morning, and paused to study it again. This is the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon bridge in China. And yes, it is made out of glass. So as you walk across the very deep

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Where to Find Fantasy Romance

16 Comments / Fantasy Romance, Reading / April 21, 2024 / Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, BISAC Categories, Google Play Books, kobo / 9 minutes of reading

Where to Find Fantasy Romance (Other than the Fantasy Romance shelf) Regardless of which retailer you use to acquire new books, do you shop for books via the categories? Or the search bar? Often, you know exactly what book you want, and a quick search is good for that. The title has been recommended, or

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A Most Romantic Sinking

2 Comments / Historical Stuff / April 14, 2024 / Jaws, Peter Benchley, shipwrecks, The Deep, The Indianapolis, The Lusitania, The Spanish Treasure Fleet, Titanic / 4 minutes of reading

Today, in 1912, and very close to midnight, the RMS Titanic grazed past the iceberg that would eventually sink her, nearly three hours later. Tomorrow will be the 112 anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Most of us have a romanticized perception of the Titanic, thanks to the James Cameron movie. But the Titanic

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Other Places to Find Good Books: Book Bundlers

Reading / April 7, 2024 / Book Bundles / 3 minutes of reading

This is Part Eight of a series: Book bundles are enormous fun. You get a stack of books for a price that is usually much less than you would pay if you bought each book individually. Retailers will also bundle books — usually all the books in a series. Google Play and Amazon do this

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It’s Just a Job: Fairies (2024)

2 Comments / Fantasy Romance, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy / March 31, 2024 / brownies, fae, fairies, pixies / 2 minutes of reading

An update on a very old post! (As this site goes back twenty years now!) –t. Fairies, or the Fae, have multiple sources within mythology, and come in a vast range of shapes and sizes, from small pixie-type creatures to human-sized ones, from fair to ugly, to human in guise, to demonic-looking. Fairies can

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More CROSSROADS Blog Tour Dates

Fantasy Romance, Fun Stuff, My Books, New Release, Paranormal Romance, Paranormal Women's Fiction / March 24, 2024 / 1 minute of reading

I have the rest of the dates for the Crossroads Magic blog tour. March 25 Fang-tastic Books March 26 I Smell Sheep March 27 Lisa’s World of Books March 28 Roxanne’s Realm March 29 The Creatively Green Write at Home Mom April 1 The Book Junkie Reads April 1 The Bookworm April 2 Momma Says:

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