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KDP Newsletter – In other news, water is wet

As a writer published through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing program, I receive a digital newsletter from Amazon with the scintillating title Kindle Direct Publishing Newsletter. The content of the newsletter is fairly bland, including such items as what your payment for borrowed titles will be and the maddening section “Featured KDP Books,” where all I [...]

Three Updates

1. Jerks Begone Librarything.com seems to have listened to the complaints about the abuse of their Member Giveaway system. In short, two things conspired to taint the giveaway: There was no an upper limit on copies that authors could give away The default view of the page ranked books by “copies remaining” in the giveaway. [...]

Six Suggestions for Book Reviewers

Reviewers provide budding authors–and other readers–with an invaluable service, the unbiased consumer review. This is an especially precious service in an age when we can’t wholly trust the literary gatekeeper we had (traditional publishing) nor, even if we could, depend on it to keep up with the avalanche of indie books coming down the pike…and [...]

Reunited and it feels so good { Wattpad + Me }

Stuck on the subway? Forgot to take a book to the doctor’s office? Plane’s delayed? Read A Reason to Live on your phone! I’ve just entered into an agreement with mobile content distributor Wattpad to participate in their Writer Partner Program. This is my second tango with Wattpad, but the first with a full novel. I’m [...]

Marty Singer #2 – Blueblood – released!

I’m incredibly excited to announce that the second book in the Marty Singer crime fiction series, Blueblood, is available for all major e-readers and will be available in paperback within the week! Synopsis Four unrelated murders. Nothing special in Washington DC. Not even good enough to make the evening news. But then a concerned police [...]

Back from France and fired up!

Friends - Bonjour! I returned from the south of France about a week ago and got right to work on the final edits of the second in the Marty Singer series, Blueblood. The release is just hours away as I wait for Kobo to get its act together and publish the ebook…announcement coming soon! The [...]

Assassin still free…but the clock is ticking

“… the stories and the mind behind them are first rate”  - Janis Ian, 4 star review from Assassin Checked the shadows lately? Assassin is free and afoot, but not for much longer! Snag this story while supplies last…oh, well, it’s digital, so they’ll last forever. But it won’t be free forever. Grab it now! [...]

Sword of Kings…free not much longer

“… a short medieval tale that is well written and skillfully told.” - Ray, Top 1000 Amazon reviewer, 4 star review Sharpen your swords and buckle your magical belts…my short fantasy tale Sword of Kings is free for one more day! Take it! If you’ve already availed yourself, would you mind writing a short review? Quick, [...]

2 Stories + 8 days = More Free Fantasy Swag!

A thousand year old sword loses its magic and a kingdom hangs in the balance… A young prince must make a terrible choice to stop a war… If you didn’t avail yourself of my Six Day Fantasy Swag back in June, here’s your chance to clean up, once again (minus the horrifying and soul-crushing Seven [...]

Amazing Self-publishing panel – Scott Nicholson, Michael J. Sullivan, Karent Cantwell, Matthew Iden

Please mark your calendars to attend an event featuring some of the brightest lights of  the self-publishing industry. Join Karen Cantwell, author of the comedy-mystery Take the Monkeys and Run, Matt Iden, author of the crime fiction novel A Reason to Live, Scott Nicholson, author of Troubled, Michael J. Sullivan, author of the Riyria Series, and Robin Sullivan, founder and editor [...]