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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A round-up of sites, links and other interesting tidbits I’ve seen and heard lately. DIY Christmas Decorations Click to jump to the page. You have around two months, if you like the home-crafted touch, to make your own decorations for this year. There’s some great ideas here! ___ 21 Most Prolific Writers in Literary History Click
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A round-up of sites, links and other interesting tidbits I’ve seen and heard lately. Smashwords 2014 Survey Link The annual Smashwords survey is always greeted with some interest around the publishing world, but as a reader, you might also find this year’s interesting as Mark Coker tries to predict the shape of reading for the
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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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Last time around, for working notes, I had skipped over two books, and had to back track. This time, I don’t have a book to talk about at all, because of another phenomenon of the indie publishing industry: doing it yourself means actually doing it all yourself. Everything. The formatting, uploading, releasing, technical un-hitching, acquiring
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Stop #6 of the Bannockburn Binding book tour. Did you even know there was a blog at Manic Readers? I only found it weeks after I’d been visiting the site and checking out the reviews and stuff 🙂 Anyway, I’m there today, and wondering aloud about how much people might be willing to pay for
I’m at Manic Readers, Giving Away BLOOD KNOT. Read More »
I just released Lucifer’s Lover on All Romance eBooks, and on Amazon, and over the next few days will be formatting and uploading to the other distributors — Smashwords, Createspace (print). So it’s official, Lucifer’s Lover is published. This may come as a surprise to you because I didn’t really given anyone a heads up
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As a Christmas gift to my readers, I’m deeply discounting my two indie titles between now and Christmas Day. By using the two coupon codes listed below, you can get 50% off and pay only $1.50 for each title at Smashwords, but only for the next three days, so hurry! Blood Knot, my erotic MMF
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A Toolkit And Compass for Romanceland Because All The Roads Are Being Re-Built (Maybe) Romanceland Meltdown This is Part 1 of a series: Part 1: Romanceland Meltdown Part 2: Finding Books – Part 1 Part 3: Finding Books – Part 2 Part 4: Assessing Books Part 5: Contributing To Word-of-Mouth (Series based upon a guest
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Ease Yourself Into MMF Romances – Part IV Where To Find Your MMF Romances This is Part Four of a Series Part 1: Ménages Categorized Part 2: How can MMF be romantic? Part 3: How To Read Your First MMF Romance Part 4: Where To Find Your MMF Romances Part 5: Narrow Down Your List
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