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Very Cool Urban Fantasy Series on Sale for a Ridiculous Price.

I got a heads up about this special ahead of time, from the author herself.  Pippa DaCosta is dropping the price on the boxed set of the first three books of her Beyond the Veil series down to a stupid 99 cents, only from today through to Sunday, April 3. The covers look gorgeous and

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The Mind Boggles….

Recently, I spotted an article on Good eReader proclaiming that the hottest trend in books these days was…. …Dinosaur Erotica. At which point, my imagination completely blanked out. The article refers to a Huffington Post report.  But out of curiosity, I did a search on Amazon and low and behold, there are 486 titles listed

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February 30% off Sale at Kobo – only until Monday.

I’m dropping this post in quickly before getting on with my writing for the day.  Kobo are having a 30% off sale for the next four days, with a huge bunch of titles. Faring Soul is one of them. Keep this code handy:  30Feb. Head over to this page here on Kobo to find the

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Don’t be Retail-Centric (You’ll Miss Out)

This is a short series, The Twenty-First Century Reader’s Manifesto, where I will share what I see as the essential strategies and tactics a reader (you and me) should use to maximize their reading experience here in the twenty-first century. For links to previous posts, and the rest of the series as it is published,

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Stories Rule (Because They Do)

This is a start of a short series, The Twenty-First Century Reader’s Manifesto, where I will share what I see as the essential strategies and tactics a reader (you and me) should use to maximize their reading experience here in the twenty-first century. About ten years ago, an English writer, Michael Allen, wrote an essay

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Are Your Amazon Reviews Being Deleted? Here’s Some Reasons Why (and what to do about it).

Have you noticed that some or <gulp> most of your reviews are being deleted by Amazon, lately? Yeah, it’s a big club. Some history. First, a bit of history about Amazon reviews, so you can understand why Amazon are doing what they’re doing. Amazon have always had a “review policy” that determined what was an

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Well, damn. That wasn’t what I meant.

The creative process involves risk. An author risks themselves and their ego every time they put a story out for readers to read and judge. Authors also have to experiment in order to try new processes, new story ideas, new ways of showing character, and more, or their stories stagnate and grow stale. With each

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