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Cover Preview for New KDP Indie Novel: "Jonah Sweet of Delancey Street"

This is the new cover for my new release on Amazon KDP, "Jonah Sweet of Delancey Street." Below the photo is the way I replied to the cover artist, Dawne Dominique, after I saw the first draft.




I love it!

It's the building, it's the expression on his face, it's the wheel chair.

It's everything!!

I don't know how you do this and always get it so right. But I'm absolutely in awe!!!!

About Getting Tattoos...

When I first opened my art gallery, I had no idea my next door neighbors would be tattoo artists. They rented the space a month after I opened.

New Hope is the kind of tourist town where everyone and everything is welcome. In any given restaurant or shop or gallery, you can run into people like Mick Jagger or Sister Sledge at any time of the year. Streisand makes a trip each spring to shop the galleries for her home on the west coast. A few of my clients were soap stars from New York (Eileen...

Great Books Under $4.99 on Kobo.com

I post a lot about Amazon here, and that's partly because I have two full length novels on Amazon priced at .99. One is "An Officer and His Gentleman," published by Ravenous Romance and Alyson Publications in a collaboration...and the other is "Chase of a Lifetime," self-published recently by me, through Ryan Field Press.

But as a reader I have price points I set for myself. And anything under $4.99 usually attracts my attention.

I'm also a fan of Kobo, and buy many books from Kobo because I...

Question From a Reader...

I'm lucky in the sense that I have a regular correspondence with a lot of my readers, especially because I write in a genre known for its discretion.

The fact that most readers don't leave reviews or comments in public because they read erotica or erotic romance discreetly doesn't always mean they don't sometimes contact authors. I have a huge file set up just for e-mails readers have sent me over the years. And sometimes they ask the most interesting questions.

This one came earlier today. I...

A Word of Advice for Authors...

Of course I can't tell anyone what to do. And I'm not trying to do this in this post. I'm just stating what I do, and how I deal with my own personal accounts.

I've seen more than a few blog posts and articles about disgruntled authors going off the deep end and ranting about bad reviews. It seems to be happening more and more these days in all genres. And the only thing these rants really do is provide fodder for snarky, ambitious bloggers who will do anything to get more hits and comments.

Bu...

This Hurts My Heart: TV Show "Girls"...Gay Guy Smacking the Woman Upside Her Head

I'm going to start a regular feature on the blog titled, "This Hurts My Heart." Sometimes it will be parody, other times it will be real. In this post, I guess it's a combination of both.

First, I'd like to state that I'm against any form of violence across the board. I find all violence deplorable.

With that said, there's a new TV show out called, "Girls." It's an HBO original series and I would consider it a current version of "Sex in the City," with new adult characters. There were a lot of...

No "Hunger Games" Knock Off for Lev Raphael

When I received an e-mail notification for the article to which I'm linking below, I found it coincidental because I'd just written a post like it early this morning, here, titled "There's Only One "Fifty Shades of Grey," One "Peyton Place," and One "Brokeback Mountain."

This excerpt is only part of what Lev Raphael has to say on the topic of authors trying to repeat the success of books like "Hunger Games" and "Fifty Shades of Grey":

I also don't agree with people like blogger Jeff Goins who...

Another Amazon Critic...Joe Wikert

I'm linking to this article because it discusses advertising, e-books, Amazon, and book prices.

But that isn't all it does.

It also insults self-published authors and small presses.

At some point in the not-too-distant future, I believe we'll see ebooks on Amazon at fire-sale prices. I'm not just talking about self-published titles or books nobody wants. I'll bet this happens with some bestsellers and midlist titles.

I don't want to sound like Joe Konrath in this post, but I can see why he gets s...

There's Only One "Fifty Shades of Grey," One "Peyton Place," And One "Brokeback Mountain," Folks

First, this isn't about my personal feelings for FSoG...or any of the books mentioned in the title. It isn't even really about FSoG in a general sense. I've already posted that I liked the book...and I read it before it went mainstream. You can do a search if you don't trust me because I'm too lazy right now to link to those posts.

What I'm talking about in this post is oriented more toward facts about big books than my own personal feelings. I have seen more than a few articles and posts with...

Facebook Shares Drop...

The main reason I'm following all the attention facebook is getting is because I'm fascinated at what will be the outcome of social media. I think the final outcome of facebook will set a precedent. So far there are too many predictions and there's not enough evidence. I have my own opinions, but I'm not going to share.

Let's just say I'm not investing any of my own money in facebook stock right now (well, maybe just a little, because I couldn't resist).

What worries me is I remember the late...