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December 9, 2015
Word counts slowing down, and more from Ygerna for #WIPpet Wednesday
For the last week, I’ve been catching up on other things, like marketing, that I mostly ignored during Nanowrimo. Since my last update, I’ve gotten another 4100 words written. Not as much as I would like, but at least it’s still steady progress. Seeing as the hubbie and I went out for a long bike ride on Saturday (yes, the weather here in Central Europe is still good enough for that); we had kids and grandkids over on Sunday for cookies and home-made ice cream; I got some more ads and a free...
December 6, 2015
Weird Feminism: The Bergstrom Storm
I am so not going to read this guy’s book.
I also suggest Chuck Wendig’s take on the whole phenomenon of white guys bashing writers who came before them, as if they’re the first to do things better:
http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2015/11/25/in-which-we-are-thankful-for-the-legacy-of-others/
Originally posted on Literature & Laura:
There’s something I’ve noticed about white middle-aged men who write thrillers with young female protagonists.
On the 24th, S. (Scott) Bergstrom bas...
December 5, 2015
Big 99c Science Fiction and Fantasy sale! 84 authors and 84 books!
Check out the big 99c ebook sale this weekend, Dec. 5-6. That’s right, two days only! 84 authors to try, 84 books for your perusal!
I am represented with the second Pendragon book, Shadow of Stone. :)
Have fun browsing!
Tagged: 99c ebooks, 99c sale, fantasy, group promo, science fiction
December 4, 2015
Cover Reveal: Kate Sparkes’ “Sworn” coming out Jan. 29!
The lovely and talented Kate Sparkes has a new book coming out next month, January 29 to be precise, with another swoon-worthy cover:
Sworn (Bound Trilogy Book Three)
Not every fairy tale ends with “happily ever after.”
The plan was simple: Find Ulric, the lost king of Tyrea, then return him to Luid to reclaim his throne and depose the tyrant who stole it from him. With the country free, Aren, Rowan, and Nox would finally be able to leave their pasts behind and seek out their futures. But...
December 2, 2015
On Words, #WIPpets, and Freedom for #Nanowrimo
I haven’t posted on my blog for over two weeks, oh dear. But I had a good excuse: Ygerna and Nanowrimo. :)
After I finished the translation of the second Viking book, I plunged into the Pendragon Chronicles prequel with a passion. (I can do alliteration!) And with the help of Freedom, an app that turns off the Internet, I actually managed to make the 50,000 words, for the first time in several years.
I bought Freedom quite some time ago, but this is the first time I’ve used it extensively f...
November 15, 2015
Kindle Unlimited: Global Expansion and Impact
Amount paid for pages read with Kindle Unlimited goes down by another 5%. It will be interesting to see where this ends.
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
Image from ShutterStock.
Amazon’s payment for Kindle Unlimited KENP pages read has dipped a hair below $0.005 per page.
There is a downward trend for KENP pages read, although is a reason behind the most recent dip, and, as we shall see, there may be good signs to offset this trend.
July, 2015: $0.0...November 11, 2015
Changes for #WIPpet Wednesday, and a brief update
For Nanowrimo, I have temporarily set aside the second and third books of The Glassmakers Trilogy and turned to a prequel to The Pendragon Chronicles, Ygerna. Just for fun and inspiration, before starting it, I slapped together a cover:
I wasn’t actually intending to use it for publication, but now I find that I’m liking it better than I expected. What do you guys think? Can I use it? If so, what changes would you still suggest? (I definitely don’t want to keep the corset, frex, since that...
November 4, 2015
Riding down Golden Lane for #WIPpet Wednesday
Mea culpa! It’s been a while since I participated in a Round of Words or WIPpet Wednesday! The thing is, I just haven’t had the time to make the rounds of other bloggers, and if I can’t do that, I feel bad about posting.
So why have I been so busy? Well, I’m still not done with the translation, but it’s close now! I’ve also been doing a lot of experimenting with marketing, to try to lift my books out of obscurity. It’s working, kind of, but it takes a lot of time and effort. Finally, I’ve be...
November 3, 2015
52 authors you can try for FREE!
Fifty-two books by fifty-two authors. All are the first in a series, all are free. Click the image or the link below to check them out!
http://pattyjansen.com/blog/fifty-two-authors-you-can-try-for-absolutely-nothing/
Please note: not all of these books are free outside of the U.S. Many of them have been made free through price-matching on Amazon, and the author does not have control over this. My book, for example, Yseult: Two Women, has not been price-matched outside of the US, whereas my...
November 2, 2015
Another one bites the dust: The Midlist
Last week, I posted about the results of my most recent 99c sales. Among the sites I listed as worth planning a promo around was “The Midlist.”
Well, not anymore. They have been so successful collecting addresses from readers, they have sold their list to Bookperk, an email subscription service exclusively for HarperCollins authors. Here’s the text of the email I got just a day after that blog post:
Dear Midlist Authors,
Thank you for helping us to grow a thriving community of readers on Th...
