Arshad Ahsanuddin's Blog, page 23
February 4, 2012
Predatory Ethics
As an aside, please check out this blog post by Heidi Cullinan, author and president of Rainbow Romance Writers, the LGBT chapter of Romance Writers of America: http://heidicullinan.wordpress.com/20.... She's fighting the good fight, and deserves your support. Now, on to more pleasant business. Today, as part of the Indie Writers Unite! blog tour, I have [...]
January 29, 2012
On Negative Reviews
I knew, in an abstract sense, that authors have fragile egos. It's inevitable, when you pour your heart into creating something, that you want people to respond positively. As Stephen King put it, "Authors are needy." But I honestly wouldn't have believed the kind of crap that some authors spew at critical reviews, and at [...]
January 23, 2012
A Milestone
Today, including all titles and platforms, I sold my 500th book, not counting free downloads. This comes just under a year since the first ebook edition went live, in February 2011. I call that a modest success, with an average of about 40 books sold per month, and I hope to build on it in [...]
January 12, 2012
Blue Bells of Scotland
As part of the IWU blog tour, I have author Laura Vosika in the studio, author of the Blue Bells Chronicles. Laura is also working on several other novels and a non-fiction book on raising a large family. Past publishing credits include an essay in Glamour magazine. Laura grew up in the military, visiting castles [...]
January 7, 2012
Sunset Goodreads Giveaway
I'm giving away 3 print copies of the second edition of Sunset through Goodreads.com (http://bit.ly/wa5SvZ). Sign up between Jan 7th and Jan 21st for the drawing. This offer is open only to those folks living in the United States, just to save on postage, but if you live halfway around the globe and would like [...]
December 31, 2011
New Year's Eve Update
So 2011 draws to a close, and 2012 looms: a brand, spanking new year, full of potential! I can't wait to get started. This was an amazing year, full of challenges. I published my first three novels in a whirlwind of eagerness, and finished my fourth. I learned my lesson about moving ahead too fast, [...]
December 20, 2011
Sunset 2nd ed. now live
Sunset just got named one of the best vampire fiction releases of 2011, by the Barnes and Noble SciFi and Fantasy Blog. So, why did I feel the need to have it re-edited? In part, because after two years of writing as a second profession, I learned how many elementary mistakes in sentence structure, cliched [...]
December 15, 2011
Mesmerized
As part of the Indie Writers Unite! blog tour, I would like to give a shout out to indie author Julia Crane on her new book, Mesmerized. Mesmerized by Julia Crane & Talia Jager Seventeen-year-old succubus Lily Anderson can't have a normal life: She isn't allowed a boyfriend, she has no friends, and school is [...]
Best Vampire Fiction of 2011
AHHHHHHHHHHH! Paul Goat Allen of Explorations: The Barnes and Noble SciFi and Fantasy Blog rated Sunset one of the best vampire releases of 2011! How did that happen?! What he said specifically was: "Arshad Ahsanuddin's Pact Arcanum saga (Sunset, Sunrise, et. al.) was also a far from perfect read but the ambitious, grand-scale, science fiction [...]
December 7, 2011
Mementoes of Mai
As part of the Indie Writers Unite! blog tour, I have Helmy Kusuma in the studio today to talk about his book Mementoes of Mai. Helmy Kusuma was born in Palembang, Indonesia. He spent 18 years there and went to Jakarta to continue his education. Having been working for IT industry for a decade, he [...]
