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September 30, 2010
So Amazon has this new feature
Excerpts can be customized and embedded using Kindle on the Web. Here's an example using ONE GOOD MAN. Obviously for my blog I had to reduce the width so as not to break the design, and on a web page it would be wider. What do you think?
Is this a good way to sample books at an author's site? Is it easier to read in this format than the regular excerpts I have on my books' pages? Pros or cons?
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September 29, 2010
A picture gets you a book!
Don't forget! If you'd like a copy of any book from my backlist (subject to availability; does not include The Icing on the Cake as that's not BACKlist), this post explains how you can go about getting one! And here is a picture from my friend, author Trinity Faegen who spotted The Icing on the Cake in a Dallas area CVS Pharmacy!! Not only that, she witnessed an anonymous reader buying the book!!
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September 27, 2010
Author Ahoy!
If you've been looking for me and wondering where I've been, I've been around just not online so much because I've been ::gasp:: working! I've been revising one proposal for submission, finishing another to head out into the wild, and building the world for a story I've just started on. I'm all about the shiny, so it's very easy for me to get distracted by fun conversations on Twitter and blogs and Facebook and Yahoo loops. I've found I get a lot more done when I just unplug. One thing I...
September 26, 2010
Send me a picture and I'll send you a book!
Don't forget! If you'd like a copy of any book from my backlist (subject to availability; does not include The Icing on the Cake as that's not BACKlist), this post explains how you can do so! And here is a picture from reader Pat Lie!
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September 19, 2010
Finding the Time to Write
John Scalzi wrote a post last week called Writing: Find the Time or Don't that brought to mind something I've heard from many friends who've made the transition from part time to full time writing: The more you have to do, the more you get done. This has certainly been true in my case. When I was working full time, I got things done a lot faster than I do now. With a full time job, writing had to go into the available holes in my schedule. Without that full time job, writing can be done...
September 16, 2010
September 14, 2010
I have a BOOK! You can have one, TOO!
Today is RELEASE DAY, meaning you get to see the biggest cover I can fit on my blog without breaking it! It's hard to believe that just about this time last year, I was asked if I'd be interested in participating in this new venture, and now the books are on the shelves! I plan to head out tomorrow and see them for myself. On the book's page, you can see some pictures, and I've added links to online stories about the book, Todd, Michelle, and Frosting. They are having a book launch party at t...
September 13, 2010
If you enter one writing contest this year, this is the one you want!
I sold my first manuscript as a direct result of a Romance Writers of America chapter contest. (I believe the North Texas chapter's Great Expectations.) The final judge of my category was Catherine Carpenter of Meteor Publishing. She bought the book six days after I sent the full at her request. (She was ill during the editing process, and I worked on that book, PLAYING LOVE'S ODDS with Kate Duffy instead.)
The West Houston chapter's Emily Contest is now open for entries. The deadline for...
September 11, 2010
a 9/11 round robin story
In the fall of 2001, along with authors Virginia Henley, Sue Krinard, Alina Adams, Sandy Hingston, and others, I participated in writing a round robin fundraising novella to benefit the American Red Cross. The story is now available for free at this link. You must click on each chapter header to bring up the pages to read.
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