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Book-Giving Ideas

 Books make wonderful gifts. What are your recommendations this year?

Hi everyone. Brenda Chapman here.

I'd like to preface my recommendations by saying that I haven't read nearly as enough books as I'd like to have in order to highlight all the worthy ones this year. I know some of my fellow bloggers have a much longer reading list than I, so please check in over the next two weeks to get more recommendations.

My top crime fiction selections start off with Conviction by Denise Mina....

Guest post: Loreth Anne White

Our guest today is Loreth Anne White, an Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of thrillers, mysteries, and suspense. With well over 2 million books sold around the world, she is a three-time RITA finalist, an overall Daphne du Maurier Award winner, Arthur Ellis finalist, and winner of multiple industry awards.

Q: Snake Oil: Marketing your novels – what has worked brilliantly for you and what has been a miserable, terrible waste of time and effort?

Loreth Anne White: Psst. Quick. Ov...

To market, to market, to buy a slim chance . . . by Catriona

Snake Oil – Marketing your novels – what has worked brilliantly for you and what has been a miserable, terrible waste of time and effort?

There used to be a neat division between marketing and promotion. Promotion was free and marketing you paid for. So advertising was marketing and editorial interviews was promotion. I felt proud of knowing the difference. 

Then the world turned and things changed and now we're asked by Facebook if we'd like to boost that photo of our cat lying on a keyboard for ...

It Ain't What You Do, It's The Way That You Do It...by Cathy Ace

Snake Oil – Marketing your novels – what has worked brilliantly for you and what has been a miserable, terrible waste of time and effort?

Well, this one's a challenge, too! I'm going to take this question as referring to selling books to readers, as opposed to anything else, and that means I have a list of things that do and don't work for me...so I'll break it all down, to allow better focus. What I'll say as an overarching comment is that I find I get more out of a method when I put more in...a...

Shifting Sands

Snake Oil – Marketing your novels – what has worked brilliantly for you and what has been a miserable, terrible waste of time and effort?
- From Frank

Marketing sucks.

Some writers say the same about editing, but I love editing. I love it in a different way than I love writing, but I love it. Writing is like early on in the love affair. Editing is like marriage. 

But marketing? Marketing is like having an obnoxious brother-in-law crashing on your coach for five years during that marriage.

Okay, that ...

Buy My Book

 Q: Snake Oil – Marketing your novels – what has worked brilliantly for you and what has been a miserable, terrible waste of time and effort?

 

-from Susan

 

Brilliant? Nothing. I remain stubbornly on the cusp of mid-list authors. 

 

Things I’ve enjoyed and that I saw have actual check-in-hand benefits are launch parties at my local bookstore. My friends show up and they buy lots of books. It’s a real party and lovely. I sell enough on those individual days and the few days after to put my new book on...

No Accounting For Taste

Mending your ways — If you had to stop your life of crime (writing) what other types of books would you like to write?


By Abir 
Morning. Welcome to Friday – the end of the working week is in sight. But what if next week my work were to change – what if the powers that be suddenly outlaw the writing of crime fiction because, I don’t know, some crime fiction writer somewhere has stumbled upon the truth, that Trump is right and that the US election was stolen by a combination of dead Venezuelans an...

Know What You Don’t Know from James W. Ziskin

Today I’m going off topic in order to write about the release of a short story of mine next week. But, so as not to neglect this week’s question altogether, I will give a brief answer.

If you had to stop your life of crime (writing) what other types of books would you like to write?

Answer: Books written by Stephen King.

Now back to today’s post.

On Tuesday, December 1, 2020, a new anthology, IN LEAGUE WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES, comes out. My story, “The Twenty-five-year Engagement” is one of fifteen in ...

A Play on Words

Mending your ways — If you had to stop your life of crime (writing) what other types of books would you like to write?

by Dietrich

I’ve written crime novels set in modern times, and I’ve written others as historical novels, but by the time I was done, blood had been shed between the pages and they were still labeled as crime novels. I’ve been in book stores and libraries and seen my books shelved under thrillers, the kind of stories where there’s usually the dread of some future crime or disaster....

What Then?

Mending your ways – If you had to stop your life of crime (writing) what other types of books would you like to write? If I had the imagination, I would love to have been a science fiction writer. In fact, the first book I ever wrote was a science fiction book. I still like it! It was called The UFO Conspiracy, and it explained where UFOs came from. Alas, by the time I finished writing it, I was onto something else, and never tried to have it published. And I realized that no matter how much sc...