R.J. Blain's Blog, page 43

The Future of Audiobook Production. (This is bad news, folks. Sorry)

Dear humans,

Thanks to several decisions by Amazon (who owns Audible), until future notice, there will be no more audiobooks produced. We’re sorry, but the current terms Amazon has opted to implement means readers/listeners can, without penalty, return audiobooks at their whim without the author being paid.

In fact, we’re charged the amount of the royalty we should have been paid.

Here is a very good summary of the problem.

As such, it’s no longer fiscally feasible to produce audiobo...

The 2020 IAN Book Awards Results are in… and the underdog pen name is Outstanding!

Outstanding is such a fun word, and given her way, the female will use it relentlessly today.

We can’t really blame her.

The IAN Book Awards, hosted by the Independent Author Network (which is vetted by the Alliance of Independent Authors, which the female is a member of), has announced the winners of this year’s awards!

The Run Around by Bernadette Franklin has been named Outstanding (heee, outstanding, outstanding!!) in the romance category, while Blood Bound by R.J. Blain has bee...

Outfoxed has released!

Dear humans,

Outfoxed has released! (For those who want to get straight to the chase, here are the links: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Apple Books.)

The female has survived through another book. This one is a wild ride, and we hope you enjoy it.

Because we can, we has some cool commentary from Cool People who have read the book, including the most marvelous Faith Hunter!

The heroine is tougher than nails and adorable all at once. The storyline is fast-paced and intricate. Th...

Bonds (Susan Copperfield) won the 2020 Kindle Book Review Awards (Science Fiction/Fantasy)

The Kindle Book Review Awards Peekture! You can read more about the award and winners here. ( https://www.thekindlebookreview.net/2020-kbr-winners/ )

Pictures speak louder than words, hoomans! We are very amused that Bonds unseated Blood Bound. This comes from the department of “We really hadn’t seen that coming!”

The female had done a very good job of convincing herself she had no chance in hell of winning. Then, when the results were announced, the female was reading the red bolds to...

A Q&A Session! Fun, Games, and Something a Little More Serious. . .

Dear humans,

We recently opened the readers’ group on facebook to some question and answers, which are below. We’re also going to answer some questions we made up because we feel like it.

Get ready for a wild ride, because here we go!

Tina asks, “Do you use pictures of characters or places to help you write? I’ve seen a few authors that use a picture/mood board collection to help them with their stories and characters.”

We, the Kitties of the Management, say, “We love pictures. T...

New Client from Hell Release Date

Dear humans,

The female has successfully navigated through the waters to have the preorder for Client from Hell moved to July 27, 2021. This allows her to do important things including not work herself to death, sleep, breathe, make food at the appropriate intervals, and not have a heart attack from stress sometime in January.

Thank you for your understanding.

Step one: add some gasoline.
Step two: light a match.
Step three: watch the devil’s house burn.

As far as plans go, Sandra Moo...

The female’s pal has a freebie!

Dear humans,

The female likes Bec McMaster. Bec’s books are fun. Bec and the female have something amusing in common, which makes the female like her even more. Bec is also good people.

We purr for good people.

We have done some blatant thievery of promotional content, as the female is currently mid freakout over something else. (Don’t worry, though. Everybody is okay. She’s just having a freakout. It involves a baaaaabbbbyyy, and because COVID, can’t visit the friend or the baaaabbbbyy...

2021-2024 Writing/Publication Schedule

Dear humans,

This is the notice that the female posted to facebook, now added to the website. Read carefully. Do not ask the status of any play projects, please. The answer is the same as written in the post below.

This is what is being confirmed as being worked on. After Booked for Kidnapping releases, no preorders will be set up without the book being completed. Audiobooks will be produced on a case-by-case basis, depending on how well the ebooks sell. (The ebooks pay for the audiobo...

A ‘Thank you’ Book Faire, Day 7 and some other news from the trenches.

Dear humans,

Has it been seven days already? Huh! It has been! Nifty. Before I get onto the book faire, I wanted to let you know that Booked for Kidnapping is now available for preorder at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, and Kobo. While Google Play will be getting distribution, books will not be loaded into that system until release day. We’re sorry about that. Google Play doesn’t play nice, and it’s less stressful on the female to only have to deal with it once, when publishing post release.

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A ‘Thank you’ Book Faire, Day 6.

Dear humans,

It is Monday. We aren’t so sure about this whole Monday nonsense. The female harvested her one teeny tiny honey rock. She ate it. She was very happy, for it was juicy and delicious.

Tiny but fierce, y’all. Tiny by fierce.

Note: Honey rocks are found in Grave Humor, and before she grew her own, the female had never had one. Tasting it confirmed it. The regular ‘cantaloupes’ in the grocery store only wish they were honey rocks.

Amusingly, this was heard in the Blain Ho...