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Guest Post: Destroying the World One Word at a Time

Hey folks,

Today I’d like you all to welcomeRichard Levesqueto my Blog. He is the author thenovel,The Girl at the End of the World,a genre partner to myALL IS SILENCEmore than any other book I’ve found.Check out his great new cover.The Girl at the End of the Worldison sale nowfor only $0.99!

Destroying the World One Word at a Time

Plague. Natural Disaster. War. Alien Invasion. Zombies. They’re all catalysts for the end of the world in popular fiction and film. But what is the appeal of such s...

Help Me, Please – Part III-V

If you have read the STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS, please tell me if you found errors, typos and/or missing words? I am getting ready to upload to Ingram, so that I can sell in bookstores around the country and so libraries will order the book. Now each time I upload interiors to Ingram it costs me $30, so I want this to be the best it possibly can be at this time.

This appears the week that I ask for help. Earlier in the week I asked for reviews from folks who had read TOILS AND SNARES. Then I ask...

Help Me: Submit to Kindle Worlds

Just got this response from the team:

Hello Robert,

Thanks for taking the time to contact the Kindle Worlds Support team. I hope this email finds you well!

We would love take your world into consideration in case we open negotiations for new worlds. To proceed, please reply to this email with a brief description of your world (in general terms let us know what it is about), and we will forward it to department in charge of the Kindle Worlds program. The way worlds are selected is internal in...

Book Clubs and Classrooms – Study Questions on All Is Silence

Now that ALL IS SILENCE has been out for a while, folks have started doing bookclub readings of it. In order to help out, I have created discussion questions for ALL IS SILENCE. I found questions written for Mindy McGinnis’ awesome book, NOT A DROP TO DRINKand adapted them.

I would be very excited to visit your book club in real life if you are within Western Washington or virtually if you are not.Wecan meet online skype or googlehangouts. If there is another venue you would like to meet virt...

Village Books, I love you, let me count the ways…

Hey folks,

If you have ever been to Bellingham, Washington and never set foot in Village Books, you have missed out. Village Books, once housed in a single older building has expanded along with Paper Dreams into a multi-layered party cake of printed and print-related materials.

They are my favorite bookstore. The location on the Village Green, where many concerts and movies are offered free to the public, is lovely. From the top floor there is a view of Bellingham Bay and the San Juan Island...

Please Help: Review Toils and Snares for FREE!

Hey folks, one of the hardest things to do for an author is literally to say, “Will you read my book?” In about 10 days, I’m planning to submit TOILS AND SNARES, the parallelequel/prequel to ALL IS SILENCE/STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS for a BookBub promotion.

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BookBub is currently as close to a sure thing as one can find in publishing today and they only acceptabout 10% of the books submitted to them for promotions. They also like books to have been out a while and have a significant n...

Books By the Bay – Free book fair, signings, panels…

This weekend is a really cool local conference for authors sponsored by Chanticleer Reviews. This is a conference more focused on the how to of the business side of being an author/marketer or authorpreneur. The bonus for local readers is the Books By the Bay occurring Sunday, Monday and Tuesday from 11:00am and 6:00pm.

Here’s the schedule of the the three dayBook-fair. There are panels, giveaways, author signings and maybe a reading or two outside if the weather cooperates.

Here’s the schedu...

Why I Wattpad – Part IV

Why I Wattpad is a continuing series of blogposts about my first year on Wattpad. Here are Part I, Part II, Part III.

Almost 123,456 reads on Chapter 1 – Part I

Success breeds success. When Wattpad agreed to Feature ALL IS SILENCEit quickly became established as a ‘good/successful’ book. Because it was featured the statisticsroseincredibly. [If you don’t wish to read the statistics skip ahead two paragraphs.] It hit to high-points of 12000+ reads one day, 633 votes on a different day.

Hitting...

Books by the Bay and the Chanticleer Authors’ Conference

Something for everyone who love’s books, authors and readers.

On September26-29, 2015:Chanticleer’s Conference, Awards Banquet, and Books By the Bay Book Festivalwill take place at the beautiful Hotel Bellwether, in Bellingham, Washington.

There will be…

workshops for writing and marketing for authors serious about making good business decisions about their writing careers. author panels including a Science FictionPanel I get to be on with James Wells and others. author readings book signin...

Now is YET! Live, but not Memorex.

I’ve been telling people for six months about when to buy STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS. That answer was always, NOT YET, please. Well… Now is YET! It’s LIVE!

If you want a copy of the ebook, buy it from your favorite ebooksellers: Amazon/Kindle, B&N/Nook, Kobo, iBooks.

If you want a print copy, it’s available signed from . It is live on VillageBooks.com(Signed with $0.99 shipping and handling! If you want it personalized, leave a note in theOrder comments box at the bottom.)and Amazon as a print bo...