Sarah R. Yoffa's Blog: -sry's Goodreads Blogosphere, page 15
December 13, 2011
KDP Select or the Kindle Owners Lending Library (KOLL)
If you haven't already heard, Amazon just started a new program called KDP Select. It's a program where Amazon PRIME members get to download one Kindle book a month from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library (KOLL). The book is free to download with no due date. You just have to be a member of the $79/year Amazon PRIME program (and that's only available to US residents at this time) but there are benefits to the PRIME membership.
I wrote a blog about this (focused as much on the customers as on the Indie Authors potentially providing the content for Amazon's KOLL) here:
http://webbiegrrl.blogspot.com/2011/12/tuesday-tip-2-new-promotional-tools-you.html
I do not, personally, have any books in the KOLL and because of the requirement to make my book exclusive to the Amazon store for 90 days (as well as the difficulty opting out in time) I'm not planning to participate next year when I release my first book so I really don't have any vested personal interest here.
Some of the Indie Authors represented, however, are quite popular and they've enrolled some of their better works so I felt it was important news to share. It's definitely worth checking out!
-sry
I wrote a blog about this (focused as much on the customers as on the Indie Authors potentially providing the content for Amazon's KOLL) here:
http://webbiegrrl.blogspot.com/2011/12/tuesday-tip-2-new-promotional-tools-you.html
I do not, personally, have any books in the KOLL and because of the requirement to make my book exclusive to the Amazon store for 90 days (as well as the difficulty opting out in time) I'm not planning to participate next year when I release my first book so I really don't have any vested personal interest here.
Some of the Indie Authors represented, however, are quite popular and they've enrolled some of their better works so I felt it was important news to share. It's definitely worth checking out!
-sry
October 27, 2011
Webbiegrrl's Writings Blog Now Available on Kindleblogs
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September 26, 2011
Coming Home ... Coming Soon!
In celebration of the Jewish High Holy days (which begin on Wed. Sep. 28th and run for 3-1/2 weeks through Friday Oct. 21st), I've decided to give away FREE my Jewish Inspirational / Romantic Comedy, Coming Home (Dicky's Story) starting Wed Sep 28th through Friday Oct. 21st.
This book is at #2 on the Must-Buy Smashwords Books Listopia and will be made available at no charge (priced as FREE) on Smashwords. If you need to get it in a different format, please visit my blog (click here for the relevant blog post).
If you've read this book, you know, it's one of those feel-good reads you can read again and again--that's the best kind of eBook to buy, one that you'll read repeatedly, and now it's going to be FREE FOR THE HOLIDAYS (or Haggim as we say in Hebrew).
If you haven't read the book yet, you can get it free through October 21st, then it'll be back up to the low, low price of $3.99. It's a very long book but once you start reading it, you'll be sad to have to put it down.
If you're outside the US, you're in luck because Smashwords allows international sales without fees (I think you still have to pay VAT but since the book is going to be priced at FREE I'm not sure how they calculate VAT on zero--of course, leave it to the tax collectors to figure that one out *haha*)
After you've read the book, I would love it if you'd come back to Goodreads to write a review and of course, vote for Coming Home (Dicky's Story) to get to #1 on the "Must-Buy Smashwords Books" Listopia. It's been at #2 from the start but I only need a few more votes to get to #1!!
*oo-rah*
Yeah, okay, I'm a little competitive. I really want that #1 slot, even if only for one day. Please don't vote for the book if you have not read it though. I wouldn't feel right about that now, not during the Haggim anyway ;-)
Thanks and Hag Sameyach! (Happy holidays)
This book is at #2 on the Must-Buy Smashwords Books Listopia and will be made available at no charge (priced as FREE) on Smashwords. If you need to get it in a different format, please visit my blog (click here for the relevant blog post).
If you've read this book, you know, it's one of those feel-good reads you can read again and again--that's the best kind of eBook to buy, one that you'll read repeatedly, and now it's going to be FREE FOR THE HOLIDAYS (or Haggim as we say in Hebrew).
If you haven't read the book yet, you can get it free through October 21st, then it'll be back up to the low, low price of $3.99. It's a very long book but once you start reading it, you'll be sad to have to put it down.
If you're outside the US, you're in luck because Smashwords allows international sales without fees (I think you still have to pay VAT but since the book is going to be priced at FREE I'm not sure how they calculate VAT on zero--of course, leave it to the tax collectors to figure that one out *haha*)
After you've read the book, I would love it if you'd come back to Goodreads to write a review and of course, vote for Coming Home (Dicky's Story) to get to #1 on the "Must-Buy Smashwords Books" Listopia. It's been at #2 from the start but I only need a few more votes to get to #1!!
*oo-rah*
Yeah, okay, I'm a little competitive. I really want that #1 slot, even if only for one day. Please don't vote for the book if you have not read it though. I wouldn't feel right about that now, not during the Haggim anyway ;-)
Thanks and Hag Sameyach! (Happy holidays)
August 4, 2011
Dicky's Story #2 on Goodreads Listopia of "Must Buy Smashwords Books"
I can't believe it! Coming Home (Dicky's Story) is at #2 on the Must-Buy Smashwords Books Listopia.
Vote now and get Dicky up to #1!
If you've read this book, you know, it's one of those feel-good reads you can read again and again--that's the best kind of eBook to buy, one that you'll read repeatedly.
If you haven't read the book yet, you can download a free sample to your Kindle right now (US customers click here UK customers, you have to click here instead. Free samples available in other formats (such as Nook or SonyReader) from the Smashwords page (click here).
After you've read the book, don't forget to come back to Goodreads to write a review and of course, vote for Coming Home (Dicky's Story) to get to #1!!
*oo-rah*
Yeah, okay, I'm a little competitive today.
Vote now and get Dicky up to #1!
If you've read this book, you know, it's one of those feel-good reads you can read again and again--that's the best kind of eBook to buy, one that you'll read repeatedly.
If you haven't read the book yet, you can download a free sample to your Kindle right now (US customers click here UK customers, you have to click here instead. Free samples available in other formats (such as Nook or SonyReader) from the Smashwords page (click here).
After you've read the book, don't forget to come back to Goodreads to write a review and of course, vote for Coming Home (Dicky's Story) to get to #1!!
*oo-rah*
Yeah, okay, I'm a little competitive today.
July 25, 2011
1st Chapters Ready to Read @Authonomy
You can check out the opening chapters for the 2nd book in the Phoenician Series over at the Harper Collins (HC) web site for writers, Authonomy:
Conditioned Response
I'm especially interested in getting reader feedback so I can hone these chapters to a fine edge before publishing the book through Smashwords, hopefully in about 6 months, around the end of 2011.
You'll have to register with the site to leave a comment, but the system HC has set up is rather nice. You have a comment form at the bottom of the page while you're reading each chapter so you can leave chapter-specific comments as you think of them instead of having to take notes to write up later.
Conditioned Response
I'm especially interested in getting reader feedback so I can hone these chapters to a fine edge before publishing the book through Smashwords, hopefully in about 6 months, around the end of 2011.
You'll have to register with the site to leave a comment, but the system HC has set up is rather nice. You have a comment form at the bottom of the page while you're reading each chapter so you can leave chapter-specific comments as you think of them instead of having to take notes to write up later.
July 19, 2011
Phoenician Series Launching Soon
Although I primarily am writing Romantic Suspense nowadays, I've been writing since I was 9 and I always used to write science fiction action/adventures with hardSF style and "soft science" (non-gadgetry fields) elements. My two areas of primary focus for the types of science in my science fiction were / are genetic engineering and memory--memory mapping, memory restoration, memory definition via neural networks and other means, memory manipulation through a wide variety of means in place since the 1920s (when psychology favored lobotomies *shudder*)
So I have a huge backlog of stories I've written that may or may not be ready for prime time but which had fantastic ideas and as always, really interesting characters. Characters are my forte, I'm told and I take pride in saying I believe it. I really like the people I write which is probably why they are so like-able.
One of my favorite collections of stories was the 5-book Phoenician Series. I'll probably condense it down to either 3 or 4 books, not 5, and the first one that'll be done is actually Book 2, Conditioned Response:
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I'll be uploading the first 3 chapters--as soon as I finish their initial edits--to a book page on the Authonomy site run by Harper Collins. Until I have all 3 chapters done, that book page will remain set to "private" so you won't see it, but you can "friend" me there - I'm publishing the SF/F stuff under the pen name "Marjorie F. Baldwin" or "Friday" (yes, after the Heinlein character).
I'll be releasing chapters on Authonomy so people can read them, comment on them, help me refine the opening to the book. I'll also leave at least some of the book on Authonomy after I finish editing just to let people sample my writing style.
If you want to know what's going on with the series, I suggest you follow the blog, or "Like" the Facebook Page, or follow @phoenicianbooks on twitter - or all of the above! I try to keep my Goodreads activities restricted more to the groups I'm in and the reads/reviews I do of others' books but I'll be blasting the social media with news. Right tool for the right job....right? ^_^
Cya!
So I have a huge backlog of stories I've written that may or may not be ready for prime time but which had fantastic ideas and as always, really interesting characters. Characters are my forte, I'm told and I take pride in saying I believe it. I really like the people I write which is probably why they are so like-able.
One of my favorite collections of stories was the 5-book Phoenician Series. I'll probably condense it down to either 3 or 4 books, not 5, and the first one that'll be done is actually Book 2, Conditioned Response:
[image error]
I'll be uploading the first 3 chapters--as soon as I finish their initial edits--to a book page on the Authonomy site run by Harper Collins. Until I have all 3 chapters done, that book page will remain set to "private" so you won't see it, but you can "friend" me there - I'm publishing the SF/F stuff under the pen name "Marjorie F. Baldwin" or "Friday" (yes, after the Heinlein character).
I'll be releasing chapters on Authonomy so people can read them, comment on them, help me refine the opening to the book. I'll also leave at least some of the book on Authonomy after I finish editing just to let people sample my writing style.
If you want to know what's going on with the series, I suggest you follow the blog, or "Like" the Facebook Page, or follow @phoenicianbooks on twitter - or all of the above! I try to keep my Goodreads activities restricted more to the groups I'm in and the reads/reviews I do of others' books but I'll be blasting the social media with news. Right tool for the right job....right? ^_^
Cya!
July 16, 2011
Saturday Surprise (Snippet of New Material)
Snippeting a new Romantic Suspense book I have yet to title (or outline or even start writing until today):
Marlena Magdalene Dietrich, or Mags to her friends, stopped just inside the door to let her eyes adjust to the dim light. The two couples pushing in behind her shoved her into the line to pay the cover charge. Great. This was going to be one of those evenings.
The place was packed. The music was booming even in the vestibule and it blasted out of control everytime another group went inside through the second set of doors. She kept worrying someone might have seen her, followed her here, but she’d walked from the T station without a tail and had to assume, she was safe here. There was just that niggling sense of being watched raising the hairs on the back of her neck. Maybe it was the girl behind her staring her down and making snide remarks about how Mags was dressed, interspersed with giggles of objection to the guy pawing her. Yeah, this was definitely going to be one of those nights. She just hoped it would be worth the ten dollar cover charge. That was half of all her worldly assets, not counting the clothes on her back or the not-inexpensive hiking boots on her feet.
She noticed the slush still clinging to her boot soles and deliberately stomped onto the carpet where she was standing before taking a step forward. She had to smile when the girl behind her made a noise of objection as her spiky heeled shoes squished into the puddle Mags had left behind. The girl made her date trade places with her. She didn't want to be in the wet spot. Mags had to stop herself from laughing. Spoiled Girl probably blamed him for the wet spot in bed, too. Ungrateful bitch. She was lucky to have a bed. And a date. And high heeled shoes to wear clubbing.
Mags had to stop herself from mentally railing against the girl. It wasn’t her fault she was a spoiled middle-class twenty-something with no idea how hard life could really be out “in the real world.” From the accent, Spoiled Girl wasn’t Israeli but definitely came from the region, somewhere in the north, maybe—Mags stopped trying to guess when Spoiled Girl switched to gutteral Arabic and mentioned a neighborhood in Southern Lebanon. Of course, come to Cambridge, Massachusetts to hear an Israeli rock star and get in line next to Lebanese immigrants. Just her luck.
Mags focused on the line ahead of her. Most had taken their coats off and obviously paid an additional two dollars for a ticket at the coatroom off to the right. Mags would not be joining in the divesting of outerwear. The group behind her did though, and the spoiled girl’s date apparently volunteered to deliver all four coats to the coat room. He deliberately shoved the pile into Mags’s back as he passed, giving his spoiled-girl date a little chuckle. Mags repeated the common Israeli mantra I will not kill you. Today. I will not kill you. Today. It wasn’t working. She really wanted to turn around and whack the girl.
[Read more at Webbiegrrl's Writings]
Marlena Magdalene Dietrich, or Mags to her friends, stopped just inside the door to let her eyes adjust to the dim light. The two couples pushing in behind her shoved her into the line to pay the cover charge. Great. This was going to be one of those evenings.
The place was packed. The music was booming even in the vestibule and it blasted out of control everytime another group went inside through the second set of doors. She kept worrying someone might have seen her, followed her here, but she’d walked from the T station without a tail and had to assume, she was safe here. There was just that niggling sense of being watched raising the hairs on the back of her neck. Maybe it was the girl behind her staring her down and making snide remarks about how Mags was dressed, interspersed with giggles of objection to the guy pawing her. Yeah, this was definitely going to be one of those nights. She just hoped it would be worth the ten dollar cover charge. That was half of all her worldly assets, not counting the clothes on her back or the not-inexpensive hiking boots on her feet.
She noticed the slush still clinging to her boot soles and deliberately stomped onto the carpet where she was standing before taking a step forward. She had to smile when the girl behind her made a noise of objection as her spiky heeled shoes squished into the puddle Mags had left behind. The girl made her date trade places with her. She didn't want to be in the wet spot. Mags had to stop herself from laughing. Spoiled Girl probably blamed him for the wet spot in bed, too. Ungrateful bitch. She was lucky to have a bed. And a date. And high heeled shoes to wear clubbing.
Mags had to stop herself from mentally railing against the girl. It wasn’t her fault she was a spoiled middle-class twenty-something with no idea how hard life could really be out “in the real world.” From the accent, Spoiled Girl wasn’t Israeli but definitely came from the region, somewhere in the north, maybe—Mags stopped trying to guess when Spoiled Girl switched to gutteral Arabic and mentioned a neighborhood in Southern Lebanon. Of course, come to Cambridge, Massachusetts to hear an Israeli rock star and get in line next to Lebanese immigrants. Just her luck.
Mags focused on the line ahead of her. Most had taken their coats off and obviously paid an additional two dollars for a ticket at the coatroom off to the right. Mags would not be joining in the divesting of outerwear. The group behind her did though, and the spoiled girl’s date apparently volunteered to deliver all four coats to the coat room. He deliberately shoved the pile into Mags’s back as he passed, giving his spoiled-girl date a little chuckle. Mags repeated the common Israeli mantra I will not kill you. Today. I will not kill you. Today. It wasn’t working. She really wanted to turn around and whack the girl.
[Read more at Webbiegrrl's Writings]
FREEBIE FRIDAY (Jul 15)
Got another great collection of free reads on my blog. Rather than continuing to try to remember to repeat everything in 5 different places, I'm trying to link sites together...GR doesn't seem to link well on the incoming, only outgoing to Amazon :( Ah well.
Get the Webbiegrrl's Writings blog via RSS, via email via Networked Blogs on your Facebook feed or you can even subscribe with Google if you like. Then you'll get the posts on FRIDAY instead of waiting for me to remember I forgot to copy it over to here.
Enjoy!
Get the Webbiegrrl's Writings blog via RSS, via email via Networked Blogs on your Facebook feed or you can even subscribe with Google if you like. Then you'll get the posts on FRIDAY instead of waiting for me to remember I forgot to copy it over to here.
Enjoy!
July 8, 2011
FREEBIE FRIDAY: SSWS Wk 2
It's the Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale (SSWS), week 2, and I have a bunchaton of books featured on Webbiegrrl's Writings for you to grab FREE FREE FREE while you can! Click through to read more about them and for all the linkiness.
June 24, 2011
Freebie Friday (24-Jun-2011): 2 Chick-Lits, 1 SciFi/Steampunk + 1 Jewish Inspirational / RomCom
This week at Webbiegrrl's Writings, we have 2 Chick-Lit's (1 novel, 1 debut short story) and 1 SciFi / Alternate Worlds steampunky novel plus, of course, Coming Home (Dicky's Story) .
In addition, for those who love soundbites of reading pleasure, UK author Danny Gillan offers up this collection of 12 shorts for your enjoyment.
All free, all the time.
In addition, for those who love soundbites of reading pleasure, UK author Danny Gillan offers up this collection of 12 shorts for your enjoyment.
All free, all the time.
