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July 11, 2014
FREE-A Dead Red Cadillac by RP Dahlke
A Dead Red Cadillac by RP Dahlke FREE-July 8-14, 2014 #1 in the Dead Red Mystery Series July 11, 2014: Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store) #1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Women’s Fiction > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense […]
FREE-Mystery, Humor series in “A Dead Red Cadillac” by RP Dahlke
A Dead Red Cadillac by RP Dahlke FREE-Last day, July 12, 2014 #1 in the Dead Red Mystery Series July 12, 2014: Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store) #1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Women’s Fiction > Mystery, Thriller […]
July 10, 2014
Today's DIRT CHEAP MYSTERY READS
Marta Tandori, Forbidden, FREE
Janet Martinez,DropDeadKillers $2.99
Shelby K.Morrison, Shattered, FREE
Eva Hudson, Fresh Doubt, FREE
DZC, People Like Us, 99cents
Jill Shannon, Image of Deceit, 99cents
Lorhainne Eckhart, Lost and Found,99cents
ClarkLohr,The Devil on Eighty-Five99cents
TB Crattie, To Save the Realm, FREE
Susan Fleet,Diva--Frank Renzi#2,FREE
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Janet Martinez,DropDeadKillers $2.99
Shelby K.Morrison, Shattered, FREE
Eva Hudson, Fresh Doubt, FREE
DZC, People Like Us, 99cents
Jill Shannon, Image of Deceit, 99cents
Lorhainne Eckhart, Lost and Found,99cents
ClarkLohr,The Devil on Eighty-Five99cents
TB Crattie, To Save the Realm, FREE
Susan Fleet,Diva--Frank Renzi#2,FREE
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July 8, 2014
Today's issue of DIRT CHEAP MYSTERY READS IS UP!
Today, July 8, 2014. Here's the line up:
To Catch a Creeper: 99cent
Flight of the Tarantula Hawk: 99cents
Make it Rain: FREE
The Fixer: FREE
A Dead Red Cadillac: FREE
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To Catch a Creeper: 99cent
Flight of the Tarantula Hawk: 99cents
Make it Rain: FREE
The Fixer: FREE
A Dead Red Cadillac: FREE
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June 25, 2014
Highly recommended Formatter
The following post is from Debora Lewis. She has formatted my books for several years and I highly recommend her work:
Self-Publishing? There’s A New Kid in Town
So… where do you keep yours? You know. That novel that rattled around in your head for years. The one you spent day and night, night and day writing, editing, and polishing. I’ll bet your characters became your best friends. You know them inside out, but like any friend, sometimes they’d surprise you and take you places you’d never been. Places you had never expected them to go. And you followed. You chronicled. You might have even worried a bit. But dark or light, they saw you through.
Now it’s your turn to see them through. Take them someplace new. Let your characters breathe. Let them live. Let them laugh and smile and cry with the rest of the world. Let the rest of the world enjoy their company. Publish!
From Microsoft Word .doc to ebook it takes about two weeks to have your novel ready for distribution through Amazon and Smashwords.
What’s that? You want to hold a real book? The kind where you can flip through the pages and catch a whiff of ink? You can do that too. Through Createspace, an Amazon print on demand (POD) company.
I know what you’re thinking. Some writers have told you they’ve published overnight. Yes, they have. But they formatted their own cover and had it ready for their ebook and print book including the blurb for the back cover. They had a dedication and acknowledgements in their manuscript. They had their bio written and maybe a chapter or blurb about their next book to place at the end to entice the reader to keep an eye on their new favorite writer.
Okay. So getting all the pieces of your novel into one readable file has already taxed your skills in this age of electronics and what you’d really like to be doing is writing the next one, not formatting this one. You don’t want to learn how to do a linked Table of Contents for an ebook, or how to get the proper margins and headers for a print book much less the proper pagination, front matter and consistent layout. So here is the solution. There are people out there who can do the cover design, file formatting and uploading for you for a reasonable fee. I know. I’m one of them.
And I’m not really a new kid. Not only have I formatted ebooks for the past several years, I also formatted many print books for StoneThread Publishing authors when StoneThread was a going concern. Some of those, like Ron Wick, are SSA members.
Keep writing, and if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Thanks!
Debora
deboraklewis@yahoo.com (Please put Formatting Inquiry on the subject line)
ArenaPublishing.org
Self-Publishing? There’s A New Kid in Town
So… where do you keep yours? You know. That novel that rattled around in your head for years. The one you spent day and night, night and day writing, editing, and polishing. I’ll bet your characters became your best friends. You know them inside out, but like any friend, sometimes they’d surprise you and take you places you’d never been. Places you had never expected them to go. And you followed. You chronicled. You might have even worried a bit. But dark or light, they saw you through.
Now it’s your turn to see them through. Take them someplace new. Let your characters breathe. Let them live. Let them laugh and smile and cry with the rest of the world. Let the rest of the world enjoy their company. Publish!
From Microsoft Word .doc to ebook it takes about two weeks to have your novel ready for distribution through Amazon and Smashwords.
What’s that? You want to hold a real book? The kind where you can flip through the pages and catch a whiff of ink? You can do that too. Through Createspace, an Amazon print on demand (POD) company.
I know what you’re thinking. Some writers have told you they’ve published overnight. Yes, they have. But they formatted their own cover and had it ready for their ebook and print book including the blurb for the back cover. They had a dedication and acknowledgements in their manuscript. They had their bio written and maybe a chapter or blurb about their next book to place at the end to entice the reader to keep an eye on their new favorite writer.
Okay. So getting all the pieces of your novel into one readable file has already taxed your skills in this age of electronics and what you’d really like to be doing is writing the next one, not formatting this one. You don’t want to learn how to do a linked Table of Contents for an ebook, or how to get the proper margins and headers for a print book much less the proper pagination, front matter and consistent layout. So here is the solution. There are people out there who can do the cover design, file formatting and uploading for you for a reasonable fee. I know. I’m one of them.
And I’m not really a new kid. Not only have I formatted ebooks for the past several years, I also formatted many print books for StoneThread Publishing authors when StoneThread was a going concern. Some of those, like Ron Wick, are SSA members.
Keep writing, and if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Thanks!
Debora
deboraklewis@yahoo.com (Please put Formatting Inquiry on the subject line)
ArenaPublishing.org
June 23, 2014
99cents: Adventure, Mystery and Romance! in “Hurricane Hole” by RP Dahlke
Hurricane Hole by RP Dahlke 9cents in Kindle June 23-3o, 2014 Marooned in Baja, Mexico, a Chechen arms dealer is waiting for the right diver to retrieve the deadly cargo lying at the bottom of the Sea of Cortez. But when Leila Hunter Standiford, on hiatus from her TV contract happens to admire the handsome […]
June 12, 2014
99cents – Sailing! Mystery! Mexico! “A Dangerous Harbor”
A DANGEROUS HARBOR by RP Dahlke 99cents June 12-15, 2014 When Katrina Hunter is forced to shoot her sister’s stalker, she takes the required leave of absence from the SF police department as her one chance for a long over-due sailing vacation. But discovering a floater close to her first port-of-call in […]
May 31, 2014
99cents-Paranormal Mystery- “In This Life” by Terri Herman-Ponce
In This Life by Terri Herman-Ponce 99cents for a limited Time ONLY Hidden memories. Buried secrets. Resurrected revenge. Psychologist Lottie Morgan knows something is wrong when she relives memories of a lover she’s never had. At first she attributes them to fever-induced dreams. But when the fever disappears and the visions don’t, Lottie realizes something […]
May 26, 2014
so What's #AmazonCart?
• What's up with Amazon and #AmazonCart? This can become an incredible tool to get readers to put your book into their cart. Yeah, it's a maybe, but that's one step closer to a purchase, right? #AmazonCart is easy to use - when you discover a tweet with an Amazon.com product link, simply reply to that tweet with “#AmazonCart”, and the product will be added to your Amazon.com Shopping Cart.
• FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS: http://www.amazon.com/gp/soc ...
I'm now adding it to all author posts at DIRT CHEAP MYSTERY READS!
Are you a Mystery/Suspense/Thriller author? There are still a few spots left for May, 2014. FREE on Kindle is still no charge. This is multi-platform promotion to thousands of mystery fans: Author information page: http://www.allmysteryenewsletter.com/...
• FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS: http://www.amazon.com/gp/soc ...
I'm now adding it to all author posts at DIRT CHEAP MYSTERY READS!
Are you a Mystery/Suspense/Thriller author? There are still a few spots left for May, 2014. FREE on Kindle is still no charge. This is multi-platform promotion to thousands of mystery fans: Author information page: http://www.allmysteryenewsletter.com/...
May 5, 2014
#KINDLEEBOOK A Dead Red Oleander-Over 100 FIVE STAR REVIEWS
103 FIVE STAR REVIEWS! A Reviewer Favorite for this 3rd in the Dead Red Mystery Series! Get This Reviewer Favorite on Kindle now! When a late in the season emergency forces Lalla Bains to accept a greenhorn ag pilot for her dad’s cropdusting business, she sighs in relief . After all, he comes […]
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