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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...

Get Ready, Get Set… It’s almost Yet!

Now is almost yet! I’ve asked those of you who are regulars to these parts to wait to buy your ebook/book version of STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS until the book goes live. This will give the book a boost if bunch of folksall buy it close together. This increases its visibility and hopefully more people will fall in love with the cover, realize it’s book II and buy book one as well! So. It is live on VillageBooks.com (Signed with $0.99 shipping and handling! If you want it personalized, leave a note...

SmorgasBlog Post III: Worldcon, Woops and WATTYS 2015!

Robert Slater sawRobert Sawyer at aSpider Robinson play, while Spider joined us by Skype! I saw and heard Robert Silverberg’s hilarious, tambourine accompanied plea for peace like they had at the 1968 Worldcon in Berkley. In between the tear gas and cannabis smoke wandered the Hari Krishnas chanting calmly. Also got to nod a greating to him. Hadn’t seen him in about 10 years. He looked great.

I missed theHeinlein Blood Drives and myautograph session was mostly a bust other than as a test run...

WATTYS 2015 – Peoples Choice Award

So, just a quick note. I survived Worldcon/Sasquan with some great stories and some not so great ones. Prepping for my Reading for STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS at Village Books THIS Friday at 7pm!But more about that later this week.

The purpose of this post is to let you know about WATTPAD’S People’s Choice Awards for the 2015 WATTYS. All Is Silence is eligible! Please consider voting for it. Yes, it actually is a popularity contest. What the book needs is votes between August 24th and 31st! Those...

SmorgasBLOG Post II: WorldCon, Countdown Deal, Book Release.

In honor of two years publishing ebooks, I’m running aWORLDCO(u)Ntdown Sale! TOILS AND SNARES – a short Deserted lands novel at 42,000+ wordswill be marked down from its regular price of$3.99, on a countdown sale for $0.99-$2.99!

eBookSodawill start the ball rolling Wednesday, August 19thfeaturing it at a price point of $0.99! That price will continue for three more days with BettyBookFreak doing a Daily Pick listing on 08/20/15, Book Barbarian on 8/21/15 and Robin Reads on 8/22/15. BKnights...

SMORGASBLOG POST: Please Don’t Buy My Book-Part II and more…

Okay, excuse the random catch-all of paragraphs that make up this post. If you want to skip all of itand get straight to finding out how to read STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS for FREE before it comes out at the end of the month press here. HERE. A week agoI discovered I that I’dsold two copies of Straight Into Darkness on Amazon Kindle. That’s pretty exciting. I hope they are sales to people who have never heard of me. If you are thinking about buyingStraight Into Darkness on Kindle, AND...

Please Don’t Buy My Book… Yet. Part II – Free Reads Offers

Okay, excuse the random catch-all of paragraphs that make up this post. If you want to skip all of itand get straight to finding out how to read STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS for FREE before it comes out at the end of the month press here. HERE. A week agoI discovered I that I’dsold two copies of Straight Into Darkness on Amazon Kindle. That’s pretty exciting. I hope they are sales to people who have never heard of me. If you are thinking about buyingStraight Into Darkness on Kindle, AND...

10,123 word post [Please don’t be afraid to click]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this post is worth10,123.

I don’t mention these often, but here’s a pretty phenomenal review in the Skagit Valley Herald for a twenty month old book. Thanks to Brian Soneda at the Mount Vernon Public Library.

Preorder up on Smashwords.

Preorder up on Apple iBooks thanks to Smashwords.

A cool screenshot of ALL IS SILENCE on Worldcat.

International appearance in Aukland, Australia!

And another in a WA library. Perth in Western Australia that...