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AIS Extras Part I: Lizzie’s Debut

Over the next couple months, I’m going to share some of the false starts and cut endings of my first novel, ALL IS SILENCE. Here are the first words as I wrote them long hand, long before I got serious about writing the novel. Maybe an R rating for language.

Remember, as part of the THIS SALE GOES TO ELEVENSIES, theALL IS SILENCE ebook is pricedfor the first time at $2.99 the entire month of November on all major sales sites. Also in honor of NANOWRIMO,TOILS AND SNARES is also on sale for $0....

This Sale Goes to Elevensies…

It goes to eleven. That’s one louder.

BREAKING NEWS.ACT NOW AND GET BOTH DESERTED LANDS NOVELS FOR $5.98 on KOBO.

U. S./Australia/New Zealand.Oct 27th–30th.Promo Code: GET50SALE

Canada.October 28th–31st.Promo Code: CA50SALE

United Kingdom.Oct 30th – Nov 2nd.Promo Code: UK50SALE.

What I really wanted to announce is my biggest promotion to date.

ELEVENSIES SALE – In honor of NANOWRIMO and the anniversary of the beginning of the Deserted Lands series in November 2012, I am having a sale on all...

SmorgasBlog – Autumn Falls…

Please, excuse the random catch-all of paragraphs that make up this post. Not sure that any of them deserve a whole blog post at the moment.

AUTHOR INTERVIEW: There’s a new interview of me up on YA site:Off The Shelf from Derek Murphy.

COVER ART WIN: Pintado’s cover art for STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS won one of five gold stars for fiction in the September Book Cover Design Awards from The Book Designer. Top 6 out of 115 entries. “Stunning imagery meets professionally crafted typography. A top-not...

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.

Updated Cover

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...