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eBook Covers (Yeah, More Advice)

eBook covers. They sell books, so don't sell your books short with a bad one. For Indie Publishing you must think long term, and promoting as soon as you can is sound advice. For this you will need a cover.
Ask yourself this, do you understand the photography rule of three thirds? Can you see past makeup to see if your model's features are close to the Divine Proportion? If your answers are

If I Must Suffer Another Badly Formatted eBook I Will Gouge My Eyeballs Out With A Spoon! Here Is How You Do It.

I may be cross eyed before I'm 24 if I keep having to read badly formatted eBooks. My mind can rework a single typo in milliseconds. Editing is difficult and takes weeks to months. Words are tricky things. Formatting, on the other hand, is not difficult, and takes days if not hours, but when eBook formating is completely atrocious nobody says anything. Why? Typos are genuine mistakes. A badly

Blog Hijack: Stuart Wakefield Says Who Cares Who Wrote It?!

At the end of July I attended my first Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Fiction conference.
As Body of Water, my own M/M Paranormal Romance novel, nears its September launch date I thought that it would be the perfect opportunity to meet the other guys that are writing and reading gay romance a.k.a. M/M Romance.
The night before the conference I looked for Jo, a female writer I'd been

My Way Of Twitter Promotion & Marketing

I don't give advice, much, but I feel ... compelled to write about how I go about my marketing activities (the little I do). So I'm starting with Twitter.com
Twitter is a simple concept. Real-time communication in 140 characters or less. Communication. Not a one way relationship/conversation. Your primary goals on this platform should be to network with other industry professionals, and extend

Blog Hijack: Chris Pink Author Of Number 3 Mystery Book Talks Cherubism

When Miss Fletcher kindly asked me if I wanted to write a guest post for her charmingly exuberant blog – a post concerning the writing process behind my first published novel, which is also probably the seventh novel I've written, but keep that to yourself, OK? I want to keep hold of some dignity if possible... – the first thought that came to mind was: yes Penelope, Yes Miss Fletcher, I love

7,400 June Sales, Penelope Turns 23 & Other Stuff I Should Have Blogged About Before Now

What have I been up to? Well:

I redesigned my website PenelopeFletcher.com.
Visited Nicole MacDonald's Damsel In A Dirty Dress blog for an interview
Partook in a webinar with the Indie Book Collective (at 2am, yeah) on Twitter Marketing
Put the finishing touches on Die, My Love (so much more work than the sentence suggests, lol)
I got completely absorbed into tweaking Demon Dark. I was In The

Niche Books, How To Sell & Find Niche Books (?) And Correct Genre & Sub-Genre Placement

I am basically regurgitating what I posted today in response to a thread on Kindleboards, but, I wanted to share my thoughts here, as they are very relevant to how I write. So I've cleaned it up (typing long passages for forum responses on your iPhone is really difficult, btw,) and away we go....
I do not consider extreme use of a story element niche (more violence, more sex). Nor do I consider

Author Interview with Katie Salidas

I have another author visiting today who took some time out to chatter with me. *grins* 
Dearest Katie, something random, yet crucial to begin with, what is your favorite chocolate bar?Oooh, give me a Caramello. I just love the chocolaty and caramelly goodness. Plus the fact it's broken into squares makes it easy for me to ration as I write. LoL. Incentive to finish scenes. It's like a Pavlovian

Am I The Only Person In The World Disappointed With Pottermore.com?

If you love the idea of Pottermore.com go no further.
The big reveal.A website. With games. Social media. eBooks.No wait.Click, Click.*scratches head*Ah, I must be reading some halfwits article. I need Google.com.Aha! YouTube, Official Announcement by Rowling herself. We'll straighten this out.On it.Click.The stage is set, her lips are moving. My god. Something epic is about to happen that will

Lunar Light, Wikipedia & Die, My Love

Lunar Light is definitely my more obscure work. I think all of the Beautiful Damned novellas will be in comparison to my young adult titles, because in honesty, they are weird, and don't follow the norms we have in Paranormal Romance today. 
The cover got a redesign so it fits in with the new releases, and I've added the letters 'bdn' in the top right hand corner to signal when a book is part of