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August 16, 2016
My thoughts on trigger warnings (Reblogged)
This is something I’ve thought about a lot, given the fact that there is a fair amount of violence in a number of my books.
I want to discusstrigger warnings. A lot of books have them. If the book deals with a sensitive subject that might be a trigger to a traumatic past event, a lot of readers like to know beforehand.…
Source: My thoughts on trigger warnings.
Tagged: blurb, book descriptions, trigger warnings
August 10, 2016
By Popular Demand: Pantsers, Plotters, and — Puzzlers!
After posting about Libbie Hawker’s book on plotting, I thought I would reblog this old post about how I tend to “puzzle” my way to plot.[image error]
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Over on Karen Huber’s blog a few days back, I mentioned a term I snapped up somewhere, an alternative to the two writing poles of plotters and pantsers — the puzzler. Several people in the comments were quite enthusiastic about the term, so I figure it just might deserve a blog post of it’s own, rather than a mention hidden...
August 6, 2016
Great writing book on sale for only 99c — and no, it’s not mine! :)
I just noticed that a book that has helped me a lot in organizing a couple of recalcitrant manuscripts is on sale today for only 99c — a book I paid full price for! *g* It’s Libbie Hawker’s Take Off Your Pants: Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing.
I admit, I can’t tell you yet whether her method works to create more successful books, since I have only applied it to a couple of books that are still WIPs, including the Pendragon Chronicle prequel that I’m working on right now, Yger...
August 5, 2016
Over 100 #FREE Science Fiction and Fantasy EBooks! August 6-7
Here we go again, everyone, another HUGE group promo for all lovers of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in between!
Over 130 books, divided into specific genres such as dystopian or SF romance, as well as by vendor. The sale doesn’t officially start until tomorrow, August 6, but many of the books are free already. So click on image above or here, http://pattyjansen.com/promo/ — and get lost in the offerings!
My contribution this month is my collection of dystopian short stories, Th...
August 3, 2016
How to Sell a Lot of SF/F Short Story Reprints – Part 1, by Deborah Walker.
This sounds like a great strategy for increasing income for short stories — which I will have to try!
Please welcome Deborah Walker to the guest spot on the Milford blog for the first of a two-parter on selling reprint stories. Subscribe to the blog so that you don’t miss Part 2 which will be up in a couple of weeks.
What’s a reprint?
When you sell a short story to a venue you’ll usually sell first rights with or without an exclusivity period. This means that once any exclusi...
July 19, 2016
Per-Page Rate Back Up for June, 2016 (Kindle Unlimited)
KINDLE UNLIMITED PER-PAGE RATE FOR JUNE, 2016Good news for writers: per page rates back up again.[image error]
Kindle Unlimited paid $0.004925 per page read, which is up 5% from May’s rate of $0.004686, almost back to April’s rate of $0.00495663.
The per-page rate has flip-flopped up and down 5% every month since March, but every month has been considerably higher than January’s rate of $0.00411.
The KDP Select Global Fund for June was $15.4M for June, 2016, slightly higher than May’s $15.3...
July 1, 2016
Over 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy books for only 99c each!
It’s that time of the month again — when we roll out another big Science Fiction and Fantasy ebook sale!.[image error] July 2-3 you can get over 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy books, organized according to store and sub-genre, all for only 99c each.
My contribution this month is the collection of previously published short stories that I wrote with Jay Lake, who we lost two years ago last month, Almost All the Way Home From the Stars.
Enjoy! I hope you find something you like.[image error]
Tagged: 99c ebooks, 99...
June 21, 2016
Let’s Get Digital Is Free. Maybe Forever?
If you don’t already have this, get it! David has lots of good info to share.
FREE at Amazon | Apple | B&N | Kobo
I first published Let’s Get Digital in July 2011, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and then released a (much) revamped and updated version in September 2014.
Combined, both editions have sold well over 25,000 copies at this point, which is about 24,000 copies more than I ever hoped. So my sincere thanks to all of you for that – particularly the generous autho...
June 17, 2016
Think You Couldn’t Possibly Lose Your Amazon Publishing Account? Think Again.
This is very disturbing and scary. A high percentage of my income is from borrows, and I have never had any success gaining traction outside of Amazon. So getting out of Select isn’t really an option for me.
There’s this indie author I know a little bit from the Kboards.com forum. Her name is Pauline Creeden, and she’s an ordinary midlister, like so many of us.I remember PMing her some time ago and gushing about how particularly beautiful one of her book covers is — the one...
June 16, 2016
Self-Publishing Tips from one of the UK’s Bestselling Authors
One of the UK’s bestselling indie authors shares his top self-publishing tips, that allowed him to sell over half a million books and get a book deal.
Source: Self-Publishing Tips from one of the UK’s Bestselling Authors
