Tips, tricks and hacks for readers, to make your reading life easier. Plus news and gossip.
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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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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This is Part Seven of a series: I suspect that many readers are familiar with acquiring books via BookFunnel promos. StoryOrigin is similar. Authors collectively provide a book each, sometimes more than one, for a group promotion. A landing page is built with all the books in the promotion on it. Then each author in
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Reading Goals for 2024 Fun Ways to Whittle Your TBR Pile (Or Add to It) It’s just gone the middle of January, which means that if you’re a perfectionist, like me, started a year-long project now will make your skin crawl. But that’s actually a really good reason to start now. Projects and plans aren’t
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This is Part Six of a series: Libraries are yet another place where you can acquire stories. I get a lot of email from readers who are on fixed incomes, or living off very low incomes, who would buy my books if they could afford them. I always direct them to check with their local
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There are a number of printers who produce Print on Demand copies of books these days. Amazon is the one most readers have heard of. But there is also Ingram, and Lulu Press. And a newcomer to the scene, the British company BookVault, who have print facilities in the US, so I can print and
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This is Part Six of a series: _______________ Fiction Apps are applications that you download and install to your phone or tablet, or that you can read on your laptop or desktop, if you prefer, and if the app has a browser-based site. I have no experience with fiction apps at all, but I know
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Several months ago, on the Reader’s Hangout, there was a discussion about romances featuring older heroines. I ran a poll at the time, asking if readers would like to read romances that featured older women, as none of us is getting any younger. 🙂 Here’s the results of that poll: I took the results seriously,
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Other Places to Find Good Books: Subscription Services This is an informal series. It has been a while since I added to this series, but let’s check out another source of books: Subscription Services. These are services that ask you to pay a flat monthly fee, usually quite low, and in exchange, you can read
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This is a pretty bad image, but I had to hunt one down as I do not read on either a Kindle or a Kindle reading app. (I use Google Play Book’s reading app.) The image shows what pops up when you reach the end of a book. But did you know that this is
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