Chris Myers's Blog: The Aledan Series Novels, page 4

Review of Daleko Mates II by Ruth Anne Scott

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The Aledan's Children (Chapters 3-4)

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THE ALEDAN'S CHILDREN - Chapters 1-2 (Book 5 of the Aledan Series)

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Critiquing the Review of The Aledan

My first novel The Aledan has received exactly four reviews, two from volunteers when I requested ARC reviews. Then there were two other reviews, one said it was a good read and gave it five stars.  The other gave it one star because it was "NOT my thing." I was kind of annoyed with that one because I'm guessing they probably don't like romance novels. That lousy one star review gave my book an overall rating of only three stars. The point is that the one star reviewer gave no reason why...

Proof Reading

I dread proof reading have never been good at proof reading my own work, but when you are self publishing on a shoe string like I am, you need to get good at it.

I just finished proofing the hard copy of my second Aledan novel Journey of the Searching Star that I am preparing to go live on CreateSpace. When I revised the manuscript last year, I only had a hard copy of the manuscript that I could use.  So I used the Windows voice recognition program to dictate it into the computer. Years o...

Why I Switched Back to KDP Select on Amazon

Over the past month, sales of my Aledan Series are not happening. On advice from other blogs I tried issuing my eBook series on Smashwords and Kobo.  In six months I had exactly one sale on Smashwords. In order to publish with other organizations Amazon does not allow your book to be read by Kindle Unlimited subscribers. In addition, I discovered that while excluded from KDP select, I could no longer arrange giveaways for any of the series.

Previous giveaways actually sparked a few sales,...

Jamerin - Chapter Three (The Aledan's Children - First Draft)

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When Writing Is Hard

I write a column for a small town newspaper that's part opinion and part slice of life. It used to be weekly but now it's about twice a month. I started writing it for my friend who took over ownership of the newspaper for which I was once a reporter. Sometimes, I get paid and sometimes I don't; but I don't do it for the money because I know she is on a tight budget.  I do it because I like to write about local things and I just like to write.But sometimes the writing comes hard, bot...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

The Aledan's Children - Chapter Four Part Two -Draft

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The Aledan's Children - First Draft Chapter 4

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