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June 13, 2012
Summer Solstice Free Fantasy (and various other updates)
As you can see from the badge off to the right there, I will be participating in a group giveaway next week, Summer Solstice Free Fantasy, with 28 fantasy novels for folks to chose from! Please pass the word along. 
In addition, I will also be having a single free day for Shadow of Stone tomorrow, to try to get things moving a bit. As a result, however, in the last couple of days I’ve been spending more time on marketing again, announcing the freebies with all the usual suspects.
In anticipat...
June 10, 2012
To Deadline or not to Deadline, That is the Question
This past week, I managed to finally make Shadow of Stone available as an ebook, several weeks after I had originally intended. But that’s ok. I had some self-imposed deadlines for formatting and editing, but then once I had addressed the changes suggested by the copy editor, I decided to give the novel another complete editing pass. And I did catch a couple more mistakes, so the novel is better for the extra work I put into it. Seeing as I am an indie author now, I might as well take advanta...
June 6, 2012
Shadow of Stone is now live on Amazon!
After months and years of hard work and sweat and tears and all that stuff, Shadow of Stone is now available on Amazon!
It is the second book in the Pendragon Chronicles after Yseult: A Tale of Love in the Age of King Arthur. But never fear, both books are standalone novels. Depending on how Yseult and Shadow of Stone do sales-wise, I may write another book in the series, probably the story of Yseult’s son Kustennin. But for now, I want to get back to Chameleon in a Mirror and finish that.
He...
June 5, 2012
Shadow of Stone is done! And Looking Through Lace is #4!
Just a short note, since Shadow of Stone isn’t actually available yet (I only published it an hour or so ago). But I’m so relieved that I finally got Shadow of Stone uploaded to Amazon that I just had to share! Of course, I created several silly glitches during the formatting and conversion process, but I really hope I caught them all and fixed them before the upload.
I have just persuaded my DH to put aside the work for a little bit and go out to the beer garden with me to celebrate. The wea...
June 4, 2012
Three free ebooks and “The Magician of Words”
The free ebook promotion I have going right now has been getting some nice attention from other blog sites. The latest is a listing on Free Kindle Books and Tips for Looking Through Lace. Yesterday, all three freebies (Looking Through Lace, Dragon Time and Other Stories, and The Future, Imperfect) were listed on SF Signal and Upcoming4.Me. Here’s hoping that will up my numbers enough to help Shadow of Stone when I publish it!
I also learned the publication date for my flash fiction piece “The...
June 3, 2012
Shadow of Stone – editing process almost complete
Today, I finished the final editing pass on Shadow of Stone and gave it to my hubbie for a last spot check. I asked him to read the prologue and first chapter, as well as a couple of random chapters throughout the book, just to make sure we’ve done everything we can to make the book as error-free as possible. That includes the following:
- Putting various chapters and the synopsis through a couple of different workshops
- About 10 beta readers after the first draft was complete
- Letting the th...
May 30, 2012
Cracking 1,000 ebooks sales (and other good news)
Sometime this week, I seem to have cracked the magic number of 1,000 ebook sales. We will see if this gets me into more “also bought” lists or other kinds of nifty attention that will help my visibility! It would be lovely to just lean back and get more writing done, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. Besides, those sales are across all my titles, and I’m not sure if the good stuff I’ve heard about kicks in for total sales, or only if a single title passes the 1,000 mark. If it’s single...
May 26, 2012
Great promotional opportunity: Ebooks for a Buck
I have the great good fortune that Yseult is presently being featured on Michael Gallagher’s book blog Kindle Books for a Buck (or less). Since he put up the link, I’ve sold 12 copies of the book. And that after sales ground to a halt earlier this month, I have no idea why. After a week of no sales, I lowered the price to 99 cents and started looking for promotional opportunities specific to that price point.
The most effective until now has been Michael Gallagher’s site. He features indie au...
May 23, 2012
Interview, guest lecture, and Shadow of Stone publication delay (sorry!)
There’s a new interview with me from Lisa Binion up at BellaOnline. Check it out!
The guest lecture at my old alma mater, the University of Stuttgart, was today, and it went quite well. Before the event, I only had one anxiety dream about arriving late, and the students seemed quite interested and asked a lot of questions. It was in a seminar in the German Medieval Studies department (Mediavistik), which to me was quite an honor. For my Masters, I double majored in English and Germ...
May 21, 2012
“Yseult” featured on Addicted to Ebooks today – #1 in Arthurian Fantasy!
I’m pretty busy at the moment, so only a short update: my novel Yseult is being featured on Addicted to Ebooks today. And it has climbed back up to the #1 slot in Arthurian Fantasy! (Thanks, Vicki!)
After May 21, it will drop down in the list on Addicted to Ebooks, but you can access the listing here.
Still not much time for writing these days. My guest lecture at the University of Stuttgart is on Wednesday, and I only finished it yesterday. I will probably use my notes as the basis for a blog...
