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I have reduced the ebook price of Homecountry for two weeks to .99 cents.

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Sorry it’s been so incredibly, terribly, achingly long since I said I’d post winners. The last contest was for a …

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Yesterday I flew into San Francisco in the early morn. I was picked up by yet another incredibly hilarious media escort, a professional musician named David Golia. His wife–he gave me one of her CDs–is a bodybuilding, accordion-playing, seismologist who performs under the name Big Lou.

I must mee...

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FIX THE PAST…SAVE THE FUTURE

In the fall of 2011, I got a phone call from Scholastic, asking if I was interested in a book series they were putting together. “History is broken,” they said, “and these breaks are leading to a coming Cataclysm in which the world will be destroyed. Three kids travel...

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Just been confirmed! No cover as of yet, and I'm afraid I've broken Anne Cain. (Oops.) But hopefully not. I'll let you see the cover as soon as I have it. I do have the first part of the Infected: Undertow soundtrack for you, though. http://8tracks.com/notmanos/infected-... Read more of this blog post »

Readin’ on a Jet Plane

Some recommended reads for those long flights.

Chick Lit is Dead, Long Live Farm Lit

The grown genre known as “Farm Lit” from the Atlantic.

Report’s of the Bookstore’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

Contrary to popular, small, independent bookstores are not going the way of the...

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on the advice of my financial consultant (my wife) I have reduced the price of
Something Bad to $.99
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
and
She Found Them to $.99
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Sorry for the delay, folks. I finally succumbed to unconsciousness this morning in a chair that has some reclining function, so I might have managed to get some decent rest for the first time in days without unpleasant sounds of distress after waking. Anyway, new comics, so yay! Tweet

Ahoy-hoy, I did an interview over on Ryan Schneider's glitzy and glamorous author blog!

It consists of 10 fascinating questions with 10 witty and interesting answers, if I do say so myself...

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I’ve been so busy with SOUL OF SWORDS that I forgot to post ebook sales for April 2013! Let’s rectify that:

5,069

This is down from the 7,084 of March 2013, but up from the 3,521 of April 2012. I suspect the drop came for three reasons. First, I haven’t released anything new since March. Second, Ap...

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Amazon recently unveiled Amazon Worlds, a platform through which they intend to monetize fanfiction. Intellectual Property owners license their franchises to Amazon Worlds, who in turn allows fanfic authors to write derivative works.

A few things about the press release caught my attention.

Amazon... Read more of this blog post »

Hey everybody, the first trailer is now up for my new movie, Don Jon! I’m so curious to hear what you think of it :o)

WATCH THE TRAILER HERE!

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Me today...

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Well holy shit. I was all settled in for a nice, productive Wednesday, and then Amazon blew up the internet. People love stories. Sometimes, people don’t want stories to end. Sometimes they want them to end differently. Sometimes they want Draco in leather pants, whipping Harry with a ten inch wa... Read more of this blog post »

So, you may remember me revealing the Cover for Girl With Guitar last week (in which I also shared a fun snippet). Well, now the book is LIVE, and it also happens to the author's birthday, so I'm all kinds of happy over here.

Caisey Quinn is a complete doll and I couldn't be more happy for her. He...

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Read on April 29, 2013 SPARK
Published: August 28, 2012
Publisher: Kensington
Format: Paperback
Page Count: 345 pages
Source: Purchased
Series: The Elementals, #2

This review is entirely spoiler free, even if you haven't read book one,Storm.
I can't even begin to fathom how awesome Spark was! The drea... Read more of this blog post »

This cat = me trying to actually get work done.

This weasel = my brain trying to destroy me:

Me: I have work to do.

Weasel: You should check the internet because remember yesterday when that one person on the internet was wrong and it made you so mad, but not actually mad enough to register to leave...

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There has a been a slight delay on the tradeback edtion. Found an error on the cover that I simply had to correct. the tradeback edtion should be available again within 24hrs if not sooner. I apologize for the delay, but I simply couldn't let the flub remain. I will post again when the tradeback... Read more of this blog post »

TODAY!!!

IndieReview Behind The Scenes goal is to be your source of the HOTTEST in INDIETAINMENT news and features! Check out today’s Mid-Week Mix w/ Michelle Cornwell-Jordan. Music by: Trel Mack, X-Phaze, Cecile Monique, Telekinesis, YeaSayers, Juliette Dreams, Pisees ft Leanne Louise, and much...

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Ahoy!
That’s a totally legit greeting, by the way. Feel free to use it.
This week, I recommend another book that I haven’t finished reading yet. I’m not supposed to do this! But I’m going to do it anyway, because it’s interesting.
Oh, but before I do that, I should say that if you missed… Read more of this blog post »

A sketch book sketch of Bran from the TV series Game of Thrones. Pretty much perfect csting, I think. Very close to how I imagine him to look in the book. Read more of this blog post »

Take a peek at my interviews and get to know the girl behind the book.
http://theguardiansvampnovel.webs.com...[
bookcover:The Guardians|17839331]

I got the print proof of One Big Beautiful Thing today and it looks fantastic. Kristin's cover looks amazing. The picture of me on the back looks just like me, but what can you do? Kristin is a gifted artist, but she can only do so much.

As for seeing it in print, I read almost exclusively ebooks... Read more of this blog post »

Eeeeeep! I'm attending Comicpalooza or, ahem, The Texas International Comic Con this weekend.


I love cons, from the dressing up to the super-specialized panels and workshops (the courtship rituals of space aliens, anyone?), the cult films and filk music. However, attending as an author instead of... Read more of this blog post »

As part of my Summer Shake-up, I have decided to snag some of the most interesting-looking reads on my “to-read” list and bump them up! My second bump is See how fast this goes when I do it this way? I have finished myreviewof book #1 and am ready to read book #2: Strange […] Read more of this blog post »

(recenzie aparuta pe belva.ro)
April 8, 2013 |Georgiana Vieru

De regulă eu nu citesc literatură SF. Aşa că m-a pus puţin în dificultate Cătălin Pânzaru când mi-a dăruit primul lui roman, „Primul stagiu” pe care, desigur, eram obligată măcar din politeţe să-l citesc, cu atât mai mult cu cât îmi aşte...

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Milos Simkulet’s second issue of Whip is out and continues the origin story of Dan Wilde, normal kid altered by a meteor strike.

In this issue, we catch a glimpse of one of Whip’s future villains, and alien who escapes from the very meteor that alters Dan, and we see the stirrings of Dan’s powers...

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I went shopping in a bookstore just before Mothers' Day and my husband told me to pick out a book for myself. As some of you know, I read a lot, but mostly they're books that people have asked me to review--lucky me, since I love reading! But there's something special about picking out a book to... Read more of this blog post »

Hey guys,



I hope you're all well. As for me I'm settling into my new home and working around a dodgy temporary internet connection at the moment which is always fun. Yay.



Anyhoo, I've been hard at work these last few months. Down London Road has now hit the shelves and I'm working on book three—Oli... Read more of this blog post »

Título: The complete handbook of novel writting
De: Writer's Digest Books

Ok isto tem umas dicas giras mas porra que é chato. Prova do quão chato é? Comecei a ler isto em 2011... Os primeiros capítulos ainda são divertidos mas quando mais se avança nas páginas mais bocejos esta coisa provoca e at...

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The noise of a casino falls into two categories: if you are engaged, that is to say, if you are pulling a slot machine handle or coolly glancing at your newly dealt hand or blowing hot breath into your fistful of dice, the smell of sweat and booze and cigarette smoke, the sound of music, of laugh... Read more of this blog post »

Ever wondered what the second coming or end of days would be like? Ever feel like you're destined for greatness and everyone thinks you're nuts? You might just have something in common with Kerrigan.

Smith takes. Scary bible tale and twists it into an incredible novel that has you flipping pages w... Read more of this blog post »

I finally got the go ahead to share the cover for LOST WITHOUT YOU, the third and final book in my reality TV romance series! If you’ve been following along with the series, this is Zoe’s story and I promise you, she isn’t who you think she is…

Zoe Oliver never wanted to be on another reality TV...

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“Tommy” commented on a previous post where I explore the reasons why women write and read m/m. I think his remark brings up a valid point, so I’m copy/pasting it here: It’s not that women “shouldn’t” write M/M, it’s that … Continue reading → Read more of this blog post »

THE WIDER A NOVEL’S THEME, THE BETTER IT IS AS A WORK OF ART




The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readersgives a private series of extemporaneous lectures, analyzing the four essential elements of fiction.


If you know where your inspiration really comes from, you will never run out of mater... Read more of this blog post »

A few years ago, the CEO of A&F made these comments, "Candidly, we go after the cool kids." They also do not make higher than a size ten. This controversy has reared its ugly head again years later and the CEO rebutted his old comments on Facebook saying his company is “completely opposed to...

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For a limited time, Release will be $.99 on both Amazon and Barnes and Noble. I’ve also issued a coupon for Smashwords, in case neither of those sites work for you. Just enter VX75W at checkout.

Release is a space opera romance, so the setting’s different from a lot of my other books, but the ch...

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I'm so excited to be part of this Kickstarter! My original short story, OUR LADY OF MONSTERS, includes a Parisian sleeper agent for The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences... and also gargoyles.
But the Kickstarter is about so much more than that! This video can fill you in on what Pip Ballantine an... Read more of this blog post »

Divorce versus Democracy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Support for this book has been phenomenal. Even if I fall flat on my face in the market I’ll do it knowing that Divorcing a Real Witch went out into the world with friends behind it, wishing both the book and me the best. Some of the support has...

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There is currently 1 copy of my novel, Killer Rumors, in the book giveaways here at Goodreads. Here is the link to enter in the contest:
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

The contest will end this Saturday, May 25th. I wish you all the very best.

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Are from Vijaya Schartz. I'm a bit behind schedule but I do hope to catch up soon! :)

A few lines from SNATCHED
By Vijaya Schartz

http://amzn.com/B004QZ9V78

There, in the bright light, walked a tall muscular man, young, his long blond hair framing a tan face with icy gray eyes... The visage of Adoni... Read more of this blog post »

It has been interesting and typical of my overall Web experience to be here and immerse myself as best I can on this important site.

Epinions, Themestream, Associated Content, Wordpress, Blogger, Twitter. These are just a few of the writing sites I have immersed myself on from the start. Themestre... Read more of this blog post »

Written by guest blogger: Kali, Master’s Student and WWL Reader

Writing my Master’s Thesis has proven to be much harder than I ever expected. After five years at university with countless papers and projects completed, I had expected this to be a manageable task that I was completely ready to take...

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