I will be holding a two hour primer + workshop at the St. Albert Public Library next Saturday, on Erotic Romance. It’s intended for complete beginners and the curious. If you’ve had even a mild thought about writing erotic romance, this is your opportunity to come and find out what writing erotic romance really entails, […]
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Since I started indie publishing, I have been distributing my books through Kobo. I was using Smashword’s distribution service to do this, which felt vaguely silly: Here I was sitting in Canada, right next door to Kobo, but I had to send my books via a US distributor to get them onto the digital shelves
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Despite the blog playing dead for part of the year, it has been an interesting year, statistics-wise. I had just shy of 25,000 visitors over the year, with a total of just under 90,000 page views. The site is hovering around the 300,000 mark on Alexa, which isn’t too shabby at all for a fiction
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There was a flurry over the weekend — you may have noticed it — and it had nothing to do with snow. This was the second weekend out of three when I am giving away a free ebook on the build up to Christmas, and there was a growing outcry about “But I don’t have
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My time travel vampire romance, Bannockburn Binding, will be free at Amazon for the next three days. This is the first book in the Beloved Bloody Time series. It was nominated for Book of the Year by The Romance Reviews, and gathered some pretty impressive reviews along the way, including the most recent one by
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This post is part of a series: Reviews I: Why I Don’t Do Book Reviews Reviews II: Professional Reviews Reviews III: Reader Reviews Reviews IV: Alternatives to Reviews _______ In a previous series I wrote, only about this time last year, A Toolkit And Compass For Romanceland, in Part 4 of that series, I suggested
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This post is part of a series: Reviews I: Why I Don’t Do Book Reviews Reviews II: Professional Reviews Reviews III: Reader Reviews Reviews IV: Alternatives to Reviews _______ In the world of reviewing, “reader reviews” are a relatively new phenomenon…depending on how you look at it. Every time Shakespeare’s plays were performed at the
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This post is part of a series: Reviews I: Why I Don’t Do Book Reviews Reviews II: Professional Reviews Reviews III: Reader Reviews Reviews IV: Alternatives to Reviews _______ Last post, I painted a somewhat idyllic picture of professional reviewers as they used to be — graduates of MFA programs usually from Ivy-league institutions, who
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This post is part of a series: Reviews I: Why I Don’t Do Book Reviews Reviews II: Professional Reviews Reviews III: Reader Reviews Reviews IV: Alternatives to Reviews _______ Way back when publishing was stodgy and old-fashioned — and there’s room for argument that it’s still wearing bell bottoms in this era of skinny jeans
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Top Five Posts for September. 1. BLOOD KNOT is Free at Amazon – Next Three Days Only It’s not even a surprise to me that this is the top page for the month. I ended up giving away very close to 10,000 copies of Blood Knot, and the book hit the #1 spot on Amazon’s
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