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August 12, 2017
The Only Rule Amazon Truly Cares About
Another case of Amazon unresponsiveness. [image error]
On Monday, I found out that some bug hit a German e-book site causing the reactivation of long-dead listings, including one of mine, putting myself and some other authors in breach of KDP Select’s exclusivity rule.
Amazon pounced into action and cancelled my Countdown deal which was scheduled for this week, screwing up a carefully planned promotion. And despite pledging to resolve the matter and restore the promo, Amazon has not done s...
August 4, 2017
How Amazon continues to do its best to piss off its writers: The odyssey of establishing my rights to Looking Through Lace
I’m sitting here listening to a yellow jacket determined to commit suicide in one of my wall lamps, and wondering why Amazon seems so hell-bent on annoying its authors these days.
This weekend, August 5-6, Patty Jansen is hosting another big 99c promo with 100 books in various science fiction and fantasy genres. I entered my boxed set of Looking Through Lace, Books 1 & 2, and was accepted. Only now it looks like my book won’t be on sale — at least not on Amazon. And it’s anyone’s guess if I...
August 3, 2017
Two More Days and These Will be History
Mybookcave.com is running a free promotion for just two more days. Thirteen historical novels – no money. What could be better. Check them out HERE. We’ve got some pretty fascinating times and places – Ancient Egypt, Byzantium, the Middle Ages, the American Revolutionary War,Antarctica at 1900 and more. Love, war, betrayal, triumph. We’ve got it all, baby! Come have a looksee:
As of Saturday they’ll be history, so click quick.
July 31, 2017
What I Do When I Take a Break From Writing, Part II
A couple weeks back, I shared some sewing projects I did to reward myself for sending Ygerna off to beta readers. Strangely enough, one of those projects has already had over 30 repins on Pinterest. 
July 20, 2017
A Wrinkle in Time as a Movie!
I am probably way behind everyone here, being in the outbacks of Central Europe and all, but I just learned that A Wrinkle in Time is being made into a movie! It was one of my all-time favorite books as a kid, and probably one of the main reasons I became a science fiction and fantasy addict — and eventually a science fiction and fantasy writer.
July 15, 2017
Scammers Break The Kindle Store
Sigh. More evidence of how clickfarms (and those who them) win.
On Friday, a book jumped to the #1 spot on Amazon, out of nowhere; it quickly became obvious that the author had used a clickfarm to gatecrash the charts.
The Kindle Store is officially broken.
This is not the first time this has happened and Amazon’s continued inaction is increasingly baffling. Last Sunday, a clickfarmed title also hit #1 in the Kindle Store. And Amazon took no action.
Over the last six weeks, on...
July 12, 2017
What I do when I take a break from writing
The beginning of this month, I sent Ygerna off to beta readers. If you follow this blog, you know that it ended up WAY longer than I intended, and I decided to reward myself with a short “vacation.”
I did some sewing.
Our place isn’t big enough that I can have a dedicated craft room — or it might be if I tossed half my books, I guess, but I’m not to that point yet.
July 8, 2017
I’m at #55 in the Kindle Store! (Not alone, unfortunately *g*)
As of this writing, the awesome anthology Galactic Empires, edited by Neil Clarke and containing my novella “Looking Through Lace” — alongside such greats as Greg Egan, John Barnes, Robert Reed, and Ian McDonald — is #55 overall in the Kindle Store!
Here’s the description and the complete lineup:
Neil Clarke, publisher of the award-winning Clarkesworld magazine, presents a collection of thought-provoking and galaxy-spanning array of galactic short science fiction.
From E. E. “Doc” Smith’s...
June 12, 2017
Lots of free and 99c SFF eBooks for June!
After a bit of a lull in my promotional activities, I’m participating in several group promos this month, for Looking Through Lace, Chameleon in a Mirror, and Mars: A Traveler’s Guide. Here’s the breakdown for you:
Big 99c Science Fiction and Fantasy Sale: over 70 books to chose from, many of them boxed sets!
http://sffbookbonanza.com/99c-books/
I’m in this one with my award-winning novella, Looking Through Lace, about a xenolinguist who finds herself having to decipher more than just the l...
June 8, 2017
World Reading Habits
The reading data here is quite fascinating!
As of Wednesday afternoon, I was half way through my rewrite – 4 chapters done and 4 to go. Woo-hoo!
I took some time off to read a few blogs and found this oh-so interesting info-graphic. What did I find interesting? That 40% of American readers read print only. I have to admit that when it comes to relaxation, I read print and only print. I work on a screen so I’m not really very interested reading on it.
Then there was...
