Better than Perfect is being featured on Kay's blog today. For a limited time, the book is only $0.99 on Kindle as part of an extra-special holiday promotion. "Stay at Home and Shop Book Sale" has been organized by Joleene Naylor, DM Yates, and other members of the Ink-slingers League. Watch this space for more … Continue reading Next up in the holiday book promo is…
Forget selling. Focus on #writing.
“Forget about learning to flog books, instead concentrate on learning to write better and harder and with more soul.” Inspiration with a healthy dose of reality. This is a terrific post by M T McGuire!
A while back, I read this post, on Chuck Wendig’s blog and it got me thinking.
The basic gist is that there are gatekeepers for every writer. While, with indie publishing, it’s fairly easy to get your book out there, it gets much harder after publication than it is for trad published authors because most of the gates indies must go through turn up after the book is published. So you get things like review sites that won’t touch anything self published; different gate, different place in the process but it’s still there. He explains how completely saturated the market is and links to an article from a fellow who has 150 books each day sent to his review magazine from trad publishers alone – which is why it only accepts trad pubbed books.
The message of Chuck’s article is, basically: there are gatekeepers in any part of the…
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IWSG: Writing Through the Rough Times
It's the first Wednesday of the month and time for Insecure Writer's Support Group members to share their monthly posts. If you'd like to learn more (or join) IWSG, please visit the following link: http://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/p/iwsg-sign-up.html Be sure to visit Alex J Cavanaugh (the fearless leader of the IWSG) and his IWSG cohosts, Donna Hole, Lisa Buie-Collard, S.L. Hennessy, … Continue reading IWSG: Writing Through the Rough Times
Editors: It Takes One to Know One
Editors. We all need one. Or do we? I know a few authors who successfully self-edit, but for the most part, authors rely on editors to perfect their books prior to publication. But how do authors find the right editor for their book? Some rely on references from friends. Others carefully review samples of the … Continue reading Editors: It Takes One to Know One
Book review: The Séance by Tricia Drammeh
This review of The Seance gave me shivers of delight. Thank you, Jane Dougherty, for such a lovely review. The Seance is on sale this weekend for only $0.99, so if you haven’t read it, I hope you’ll give it a try.
Looking for likely books to plug for Halloween I immediately thought of this one and realized I have never posted a review here. My youngest is reading it today. Haven’t heard a peep out of her for a while.
This is a book that is hard to put down for an adult. For teenagers it must be riveting.
Abby is an ‘original,’ and her best friend, if not the prettiest girl in the class, is up there with them. There are class bullies, and there is the gorgeous hunk floating just out of reach, the object of desire. But this is not the standard high school drama. Abby manages her problems—absent, uninterested parents, and loneliness—in an out of the ordinary way—by indulging her interest in the paranormal.
The séance goes horribly wrong and the unwelcome presence Abby summons grows from irritating to seriously, worryingly dangerous. Tricia Drammeh builds up the…
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