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April 7, 2017
Testing new Covers for Chameleon in a Mirror
Since I’ve recently had rather disappointing click-through rates for Chameleon in a Mirror, I decided to try testing some cover designers through Fiverr, just for fun. I wrote about the option in my book Starting Out as an Indie Author, but I had never used it myself. There’s a saying here in Germany, “Probieren geht über studieren.” (Trying is better than studying.) So here I am trying! Here are the cover designs I got from my first Fiverr foray into covers:
For the sake of comparison, he...
April 6, 2017
Hugo Nominees 2017
With a couple of notable exceptions (which I will not name for fear of being banned *g*), it looks like the Hugos have largely recovered from being hijacked for a couple of years by a bunch of lunatic dinosaurs:
http://www.tor.com/2017/04/04/2017-hugo-award-finalists-announced/
Yay! What a relief! What I find particularly interesting, however, is how completely Tor.com is dominating the ballot for short forms this year. The usual suspects (Asimov’s, F&SF, Analog) are absent entirely. I’m sus...
March 21, 2017
Cory Doctorow Launches a Bookstore Where Authors Sell on Behalf of Publishers – Wait, What?
This is just bizarre, but interesting in its own weird way:
Source: Cory Doctorow Launches a Bookstore Where Authors Sell on Behalf of Publishers – Wait, What?
March 10, 2017
Why successful writers need to do more than write
I stumbled across this, and since it’s right up my alley, I had to share.
March 8, 2017
The Azure Window on Gozo is gone
I was on Gozo over a decade ago with my daughter, so we were fortunate to see the Azure Window before it collapsed.
Now it has been destroyed by a storm. More pictures and links here:
https://petapixel.com/2017/03/08/maltas-famous-azure-window-rock-arch-collapses-photographers-mourn/
So sad. 
“Starting Out as an Indie Author” made “hot new release”!
Lookie here, friends:
Starting Out as an Indie Author made it to a “hot new release” in the publishing and authorship category on Amazon! It’s dropped out again now, but at least I got the screen shot to prove it last night before I went to bed. *g*
And I did no advertising to get there — it was all mailing list and friends sharing the news. So a huge thanks to all of you!
Tagged: 99c sale, Amazon, book launch, hot new release
March 5, 2017
Starting Out as an Indie Author published! This month only 99c
Starting Out as an Indie Author has finally been published as an eBook! It took me longer than I expected, but then, what doesn’t, right? 
March 3, 2017
Over 100 free Science Fiction and Fantasy EBooks, March 4-5!
First weekend of the month again, and it’s time for another big SFF group promo! This time, we’re back to free, through Bookfunnel and Instafreebie this time. Check it out!
The sale officially starts Saturday, March 4, but you can take a look now to see what you might be interested in clicking on this weekend.
February 23, 2017
Kobo Plus Launched in Netherlands
Interesting news for indie authors — and no need to be exclusive if you opt in! As an experiment, I’ve put a couple of my first books in series in. We will see how this works out.
On February 22, 2017, Rakuten Kobo and bol.com launched ‘Kobo Plus’ – a new subscription service offering readers the largest all-you-can-read selection of digital books in The Netherlands and Belgium, with titles ranging from new releases and bestsellers to classics and old favourites, including...
February 21, 2017
Back to the (cover) drawing board
A friend of mine with a background in PR explained to me in detail why the covers I posted a little over a week ago don’t work from an advertising and branding perspective, so I’ve gone back and created a couple more with her advice in mind. For the sake of comparison, I’m also including the winner of my last poll, the more serious cover based on the graphics I used for the blog posts. Here are the covers:
Do please take the poll or let me know what you think in the comments. Thanks!
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