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June 3, 2016
Over 100 Free Science Fiction and Fantasy eBooks!
It’s almost the first weekend of the month, and that means it’s time for another SFF group promo.[image error] This month, we have over 100 free titles in Science Fiction and Fantasy, and for the first time, conveniently organized according to store. You think Amazon is the epitome of evil? No problem — just click on the link for the Apple store! You’re boycotting Apple because they’re using any and all tricks to get around paying taxes in Europe?* No problem — click on the Kobo link! You’re one of the l...
May 29, 2016
How to do a successful ebook promo (without BookBub)
As many readers of this blog know, I broke down this month and did a free promo for one of my Big Fat Fantasies again, Shadow of Stone, the second book in The Pendragon Chronicles. For a number of reasons, I hadn’t really wanted to go there anymore:
1) The reviews you get after a free run are sometimes downright depressing, since a lot of people are grabbing the book who are not your target audience.
2) The Pendragon books are REALLY long, and they took a LONG time to write. Something irks...
May 23, 2016
Shadow of Stone FREE through tomorrow, May 24!
For the first time in years, I’m giving away one of my Big Fat Fantasies. Through tomorrow, you can get Shadow of Stone free on Amazon.
Description:
For over ten years, there has been peace in Britain after Arthur and his warriors soundly defeated the Saxons at the battle of Caer Baddon. But sometimes peace is deceptive …
After a series of hard winters and famine, an alliance of dissatisfied northern kings attack the rich cities of Southern Britain. But in the years of peace, Arthur’s army...
May 14, 2016
How Much Did Kindle Unlimited Pay per Page Read in April, 2016? (Good News)
Some good news! Although the fact that we have fewer pages now tips the scales a bit in the opposite direction …
Image from ShutterStock.
The Kindle Unlimited per-page rate improved nearly 4% up to $0.00495663 for April, 2016. (Compare this to $0.00477885 for March, 2016.)
This is up 21% over January’s rate of $0.00411. A nice trend.
The KDP Select Global Fund held steady at $14.9M for April, 2016 (identical to March).
The improved per...
May 6, 2016
HUGE 99c SFF eBook Sale – over 150 books! May 7-8
The monthly Science Fiction and Fantasy group promo is here again, and this weekend, May 7-8, we have an amazing lineup of over 150 ebooks for only 99c each! It officially starts tomorrow, but many of the books are already on sale.
My contribution this month is the box set of Looking Through Lace and Beyond the Waters of the World.
I really think you should take a look — not that I want to ruin your weekend … *evil grin *
Tagged: 99c ebooks, 99c sale, group promo, looking through lace, Sc...
April 18, 2016
KU Scammers Attack Amazon’s Free Ebook Charts
Sigh. The next scam making it more difficult for honest authors to make a living …
Last month, Amazon was caught up in a crisis at least partly of its own making when bungled attempts to deal with a growing Kindle Unlimited scammer problem resulted in the sanctioning of innocent authors.
Amazon has since apologized, and has also pledged to beef up its response to the KU scamming mess – but questions very much remain about whether Amazon is taking the problem seriously enough....
April 17, 2016
Champagne in Champagne
I promised to report on our short trip to the Champagne region of France, and now that things have quieted down a bit here, I can finally get around to it.
This month, my sister came for a visit for the first time in over 25 years. After a few days in our humble home, we headed off for France, where we met her daughter in Troyes.
Karen and Olivia
Troyes is an amazingly quaint and lovely town, full of narrow streets and half-timbered houses and old churches, deserving of a much longer visit...
April 16, 2016
Aphra Behn: 1640 (?) – April 16, 1689
Aphra Behn, the woman who made it possible for us women to speak our minds (at least according to Virginia Woolf), died 327 years ago today. Not only was she the first professional woman writer in the English language, she (probably) traveled to the English colony of Surninam, wrote prose works that could be argued to be predecessors of the genre of the novel, was a spy in the Netherlands for Charles II, and spent time in debtor’s prison as a result of expenses accrued in service to the crown...
April 12, 2016
Very belated update, and Ygerna seeking a healer for #WIPpet Wednesday
A lot has been going on here in Central Europe, and I just haven’t been able to take the time for blogging while still moving forward on my writing. My sister came to visit — for the first time in over 25 years. Then we took a short trip to France, where we met her daughter and spent some time drinking champagne in Champagne. I still intend to write a blog post about that with pictures, but when we got back, I had better things to do: I FINISHED A COMPLETE DRAFT OF DRAGON TOUCHED TODAY! The r...
April 11, 2016
New cover for Ygerna — let me know what you think!
My cover artist Lou Harper sent me a new cover design for my Pendragon Chronicles prequel, Ygerna, and I would love some feedback!
Here’s the ebook cover:
And here’s the wraparound:
Any and all comments and suggestions welcome!
Tagged: book cover design, book covers, Pendragon Chronicles, Ygerna
