Andrew Toynbee's Blog, page 10
October 7, 2013
Final day! The Fall in love with Fall $.99 Autumnal blast!
Cassandra Giovanni has been working hard. Her mission? To bring together a collection of other authors and put on a “Fall in Love with Reading $.99 Sale”.
Each one of the above novels is from an independent author and features romance from a tidbit to a whole dollop, so go ahead, fall in love with reading this Fall by picking up any of these titles from October 1-7th. At $.99, you cannot afford to miss this!
As the October leaves begin to gift us with their glorious autumnal colours Treat your Kindle / eReader / tablet to a few new reads and snuggle down with your favourite coffee mug for a little escapisim.
Read on!
September 30, 2013
The Fall in love with Fall $.99 Autumnal blast!
Cassandra Giovanni has been working hard. Her mission? To bring together a collection of other authors and put on a “Fall in Love with Reading $.99 Sale”.
Each one of the above novels is from an independent author and features romance from a tidbit to a whole dollop, so go ahead, fall in love with reading this Fall by picking up any of these titles from October 1-7th. At $.99, you cannot afford to miss this!
As the October leaves begin to gift us with their glorious autumnal colours Treat your Kindle / eReader / tablet to a few new reads and snuggle down with your favourite coffee mug for a little escapisim.
Read on!
September 20, 2013
Hee!
Reblogged from Adventures and Musings of a Hedgewitch:
Following on from yesterday's 'Talk like a pirate day' post I give you...groan.
September 19, 2013
High Seas Silliness is upon us once again… Ah-harrrr.
Ahoy, me fellow blogsters! I’m knowing that yer usually seeing nowt but good sense and *slugs a fistfull of rum* the occasional ramble from me good self, but see…. today be International Talk like a pirate day. And if ye ain’t belivin’ me, ask me good mate Wikipedia, who’ll tell ye it’s true, see!
I be one for tradition, y’see and be happy to share this jolly happenin’ with ye, me fellow sailors and lubbers.
So get yerselves out into the world and cheer up a few sad souls who might be lost or down. Tell ‘em I sent ye!
Keep to the Code!
September 16, 2013
E-book sales are plateauing... Or are they?
In an industry where ebook sales have rocketed in the past five years, recent statistics have shown that growth is stagnating. At least, that’s what it looks like.
Traditional Publishers trying to play down the rising sales of eBooks? You be the judge.
New Software!
New Software For Writers!
Does your work have limited appeal? Are your sales dismal? Do reviewers complain that your work is difficult to understand and contains allusions to obscure works that no one has read?
We Have The Solution!
Originality Zapper is a revolutionary new tool for novelists! Using web-based reference mapping technology, Originality Zapper will carefully comb through your manuscript and compare every sentence, phrase, and word with the complete texts of the top twenty bestsellers in your genre, ranking them by degree of consistency.
I think many best-selling authors have already bought up the existing stocks of this product, but some may still be available from smaller stores. Hurry!
If Other Professions Were Paid Like Artists
Reblogged from dreampunk geek:
A nice infographic by pigeonbits about how artists work and get paid for said work. I can relate.
Ohh.... this made me stop and go; wow....
Apologies to Twitter followers
I feel that I ought to extend apologies to everyone who has chosen to follow me on Twitter.
I finally found the time to get my Twitter account in order this weekend.
When I saw my stats I was stunned.
Before I began my long-overdue spring clean, they said;
Following; 197
Followers; 542
How does that happen? And why do 542 people think that I am worthy of their precious time to follow? Perhaps some of them are simply accumulating numbers. Others (and their profiles support this) are fellow writers and artists and have chosen to extend their writing family - and their contacts.
it’s encouraging to be part of such a large group and I hope to continue meeting new writers, readers, artists.
I’ve now addressed the imbalance, even making an effort to tilt it the other way. I’m currently following more than are following me, which generally seems to be the case with most Tweeters.
I intend to keep a regular eye on my stats from now on, so that anyone who chooses to follow will not have to wait (in some cases) three or more months for a return follow (unless you only Tweet about Stock Market shares or advertise cars).
Write on… or it you don’t write, then Happy Following! 
