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Other Places to Find Good Books: Kickstarter and Other Crowdfunding

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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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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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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Reading Goals for 2024

Fun Stuff, Reading / January 18, 2024 / Shakespeare, The Great Books / 6 minutes of reading

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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Other Places to Find Good Books: Libraries

Reading / December 14, 2023 / Libraries / 2 minutes of reading

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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Who do you buy your print copies from?

4 Comments / Indie Publishing, Reading, Uncategorized / December 5, 2023 / Fiction Apps / 3 minutes of reading

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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Other Places to Find Good Books: Fiction Apps

Reading, Uncategorized / November 9, 2023 / Fiction Apps / 3 minutes of reading

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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Paranormal Women’s Fiction

Paranormal Romance, Paranormal Women's Fiction, Reading, Ruminating, Upcoming Books / November 2, 2023 / 4 minutes of reading

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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