Ruth Nestvold's Blog, page 57

“Looking Through Lace” FREE from now until Friday

I’m getting a little burned out on doing free promotions so often, so I’m using all the rest of my free promo days for my award-winning science fiction novella “Looking Through Lace” this week. Available for Amazon Kindle:

http://www.amazon.com/Yseult-Tale-Love-Arthur-ebook/dp/B006SJLSDA/

I’m planning on taking it out of KDP Select after that, at least for a while, so get it free while you still can!

"Looking Through Lace" FREE from now until Friday

I'm getting a little burned out on doing free promotions so often, so I'm using all the rest of my free promo days for my award-winning science fiction novella "Looking Through Lace" this week. Available for Amazon Kindle:

http://www.amazon.com/Yseult-Tale-Love-Arthur-ebook/dp/B006SJLSDA/

I'm planning on taking it out of KDP Select after that, at least for a while, so get it free while you still can!

Another round of goals: publication date, draft completion and more

After all the editing and marketing and ebook publishing I've been doing so far this year, I really need to get my writer hat firmly back on and concentrate on writing again. My main goal will be to write at least 2500 new words a week. If I can stick with that, I should have close to a complete first draft of Fragments of Legend by the end of June. Of course, I don't know exactly how many words total it will end up being, but I already have over 70,000 words in draft and notes. This won't...

Short story sale and Yseult rankings

Getting late here in Central Europe, but I've got some news before I head off to bed: I sold another short story to Daily Science Fiction today, "The Magician of Words." It's an odd little piece, to my way of thinking more like a prose poem than a story proper, but then, the other story I sold to them was based on a poem, so maybe it's a pattern.

Yseult is doing quite well on its final free promotion, although it doesn't look like it's going to break into the top 100 Free Kindle Store...

Last freebie for “Yseult” today and tomorrow, March 26-27

Before I take Yseult out of KDP Select, I’m using up my free days for a final 48 free promotion. KDP Select has been very good for me (at least most of the time), but I won’t know how much I might be selling elsewhere if I don’t at least try. So the beginning of April, I will be putting Yseult up on Smashwords, and fairly soon thereafter it should be available on B&N, iTunes, etc. (assuming I get the formatting right that is, and Smashwords Meatgrinder accepts it!)

So please, if you don’t hav...

Last freebie for "Yseult" today and tomorrow, March 26-27

Before I take Yseult out of KDP Select, I'm using up my free days for a final 48 free promotion. KDP Select has been very good for me (at least most of the time), but I won't know how much I might be selling elsewhere if I don't at least try. So the beginning of April, I will be putting Yseult up on Smashwords, and fairly soon thereafter it should be available on B&N, iTunes, etc. (assuming I get the formatting right that is, and Smashwords Meatgrinder accepts it!)

So please, if you don't...

“The Future, Imperfect” FREE for 24 hours!

I have another freebie going on today, my short story collection The Future, Imperfect. Here’s the product description:

“The Future, Imperfect” is a collection of near future, dystopian short stories by Ruth Nestvold. Environmental changes — slow in some regions, catastrophic in others — have had a major effect on our world, not for the better. While water wars and pandemics have devastated the Mediterrean region, and a major earthquake and the resulting destruction of nuclear power plants an...

"The Future, Imperfect" FREE for 24 hours!

I have another freebie going on today, my short story collection The Future, Imperfect. Here's the product description:

"The Future, Imperfect" is a collection of near future, dystopian short stories by Ruth Nestvold. Environmental changes — slow in some regions, catastrophic in others — have had a major effect on our world, not for the better. While water wars and pandemics have devastated the Mediterrean region, and a major earthquake and the resulting destruction of nuclear power plants...

Shooting for the “magic 1000″ in ebooks

This has been a pretty successful last couple of months. Starting with my novel Yseult at the beginning of January, I’ve gotten five new ebooks up on Amazon and have editied one more novel, Shadow of Stone, another Arthurian historical fantasy. I’ve booked editing services, and am scheduled to get the novel back on April 27. I’ve also contacted the cover artist who did the cover for Yseult, and it looks like he’ll be able to start working on a cover for the second book in the next couple of w...

Shooting for the "magic 1000″ in ebooks

This has been a pretty successful last couple of months. Starting with my novel Yseult at the beginning of January, I've gotten five new ebooks up on Amazon and have editied one more novel, Shadow of Stone, another Arthurian historical fantasy. I've booked editing services, and am scheduled to get the novel back on April 27. I've also contacted the cover artist who did the cover for Yseult, and it looks like he'll be able to start working on a cover for the second book in the next couple of w...