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More excuses and more from Ygerna for #WIPpet Wednesday

The last week has been filled up with marketing business and Christmas shopping, and my word counts have suffered accordingly. I had two 1000 word days in the last week, but I also had a couple with next to nothing, when I was formatting Looking Through Lace for Createspace, and everything else surrounding the new cover. The new ebook cover is now live, but the paperback is not yet available. I will let you know when it is.

I also managed to get a BookBub ad for Chameleon in a Mirror in the...

What Did Kindle Unlimited Pay for Pages Read in November, 2015?

Nice to see that the downward trend in payments is at least temporarily halted. :) And since I’m not really read in India, that’s not much of a concern.

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KENP PAGES READ FOR NOVEMBER, 2015

November, 2015 marks the first month that Amazon KDP is paying different royalty amounts in different countries for KENP pages read.

Here is the breakdown for November, 2015 by country:

United States: $0.00492 per page (US dollars). That’s an increase of 2.3% from...

And the winner of the new cover for Looking Through Lace is …

After running various versions of the cover designs for Looking Through Lace past Facebook, my blog, and the cover voting site I’ve used before, we have a winner: looking through hair and stars! *g*

For those curious, here’s a breakdown of the various voting results:

Facebook: Hair – 9; Eye – 3; Hair with Grid overlay – 1

Voting site: Hair – 5; Eye – 2; Hair with Grid overlay – 3

Blog: Hair – 4; Eye – 4; Original cover – 3

I find the differences pretty fascinating. The readers of my blog n...

Last chance (for the foreseeable future) to get Dragon Time for free!

I’m slowly but surely taking my short story collections out of KDP Select, and this time it’s Dragon Time. But you have a few days to get it free, if you are so inclined. :)

Here the description:

A collection of four previously published fantasy tales by Ruth Nestvold: “Dragon Time,” “Wooing Ai Kyarem,” “To Act the Witch,” and “Princes and Priscilla.”

Dragon Time: In Unterdrachenberg, time has stopped. After the death of his queen, the dragon king is mad with grief. Only a human woman can e...

New covers for Looking Through Lace – please vote!

I just got two new cover designs from Lou Harper for my SF novella Looking Through Lace, and I would love some feedback!

Here is the description:

As the only woman on the first contact team, xenolinguist Toni Donato expected her assignment on Christmas would be to analyze the secret women’s language — but then the chief linguist begins to sabotage her work. What is behind it? Why do the men and women have separate languages in the first place? What Toni learns turns everything she thought...

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...

Weird Feminism: The Bergstrom Storm

Ruth Nestvold:

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...

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

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...

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...