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Help us help you: Calling all writers and readers!

FOR WRITERS

How people wrote books before computers. I can’t even imagine.

Today I’d like to introduce you to Beverly Kendall, an author with a mission to understand the truth of what’s selling and what’s not for self-published authors. You hear about the BIG stories of those who sell millions, but what about the rest of us? I wrote recently about how we were able to quit our jobs and write full time last year, and how we made a very nice 6 figure income on royalties alone even though we aren’t necessarily household names (yet.) We’re not alone in this, but we need more feedback. If you’re an indie author, please take a moment to fill out this survey and help us shed light on the truth of the indie movement for authors!

Self-Published Authors, I would greatly appreciate your input on this survey, which I’m using to put together a post (article) on how self-published authors are faring in this new world of publishing. Please share with as many self-published authors as you can. Thx

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GJD32G7

FOR READERS

We want to know your habits as well, so as indie authors we can give you what you want. Please take a moment to fill out this anonymous reader survey! Thank you. 

Hi everyone,Below is a simple, quick and painless, completely anonymous survey about your reading habits. I would really appreciate your input. Thank you in advance for taking the time to do it.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/V86DKW2

 

Beverley Kendall

http://beverleykendall.com

http://theseasonforromance.com

Bio

Beverley discovered her love of books while growing up in, the then, small city of Barrie, Ontario Canada. With her love of books and romance, she always wished that everyone would find their happily ever after. She’s a single mother with a young son and writes sexy historical, new adult and contemporary romances.

Beverley has lived on two continents, in three countries, two provinces, and four states. She stopped her nomadic existence and settled in the southeast. All things artistic feed her creative passion, but none more than writing. Readers can visit her at: beverleykendall.com.

We hope you enjoyed this blog post. Want more from Karpov Kinrade? Check out our Amazon page here. New to our work? Get Seduced by Innocence FREE everywhere ebooks are sold, and find out why the Seduced Saga is a bestselling fan favorite!

The WeeKKend Recap!

Another week has come and gone. And what a week it was! Let’s go over all the awesomeness the past week contained (and a few things that it didn’t) in today’s WeeKKend Recap!

Happy New Year!

If we have learned nothing else this year, and in the years leading up to this one, it is to take leaps of faith and live outrageously. Sometimes you’ll fall on your face. Sometimes you’ll fail at something you were so sure would be a huge success. Sometimes you’ll be scared and you’ll risk everything in the belief that you can, somehow, succeed. And sometimes…

Sometimes…

Sometimes you will land on your feet. Sometimes you will soar. Sometimes an idea you weren’t sure about will become the most successful thing you’ve ever done.

So take leaps of faith. Don’t be afraid to fail. To make mistakes. To epically land on your face. Because each failure brings you closer to success, but if you don’t take that first step, if you don’t risk everything to live outrageously, you’ll never know what you could have accomplished.

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Happy New Year. We welcome 2014 with open arms and outrageous faith in the impossible being entirely possible.

When the Heart Falls had quite a week!

Our critically-acclaimed, award-winning new adult contemporary romance, When the Heart Falls, had quite the week! It was free on Amazon from January 1 through January 5–in fact, if you hurry, you might still be able to get it–and it did AWESOMELY, ranking as high as #26 in all of Amazon Free!

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We love this book so much, and we were so happy to see it doing so well! It makes us excited for writing the sequel, When the Heart Loves! If you love contemporary romances by Nicholas Sparks or Bella Andre, you should definitely pick up your copy of When the Heart Falls!

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HOTTIEBOWL 2014 is here!

Why settle for a single showdown a week when you can have a WHOLE MONTH of daily showdowns? Who needs the Super Bowl when you can have the HOTTIEBOWL? Starting January 1, we’ve been pitting the hottest Hollywood has to offer in a quest to find the hottest of the them all!

So far, we’ve pitted Hugh Jackman vs. Luke Evans, Ian Somerhalder vs. Johnny Depp, The Rock vs. Chris Hemsworth, and Ryan Reynolds vs. Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Fan votes have moved Hugh Jackman, Johnny Depp, Chris Hemsworth, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers on to the next round! Have you cast your ballots yet? Click below to see all match-ups!

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32 hotties, 31 showdowns, one month of awesomeness!

Make sure you’ve liked our Facebook page to keep up with the daily showdowns and cast your vote!

Be our Fan of the Week!

Congratulations to Heather Stanley, this week’s Karpov Kinrade Fan of the Week!

We’re saying thanks to our fans! With giftcards and eternal fame! Wanna get in on the action and potentially win a $5 Amazon giftcard? All you gotta do is participate and be a fan on our Facebook fan page. Comment on, like, and share ANY of the posts on the page–every comment, like, and share will automatically enter you to win a $5 Amazon giftcard and be our Fan of the Week. It’s our way of saying THANKS for being AWESOME! We announce a new Fan of the Week every Sunday evening.

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Come on and join the fun!

This week’s favorite KK product

Love this sweatshirt with the Princes of Hell logo!

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This–and all sorts of awesome KK Minion, Seduced Saga, and Naughty Live Longer gear–is available at our KK CafePress store. We’ll be switching over to Zazzle in the near future, so stay tuned for that new link.

What you missed on the blog…

Our New Year’s Wish For You: Live Outrageously

Phew, what a week! Here’s to another awesome week coming up–make it a great one!
We hope you enjoyed this blog post. Want more from Karpov Kinrade? Check out our Amazon page here. New to our work? Get Seduced by Innocence FREE everywhere ebooks are sold, and find out why the Seduced Saga is a bestselling fan favorite!

Our New Year’s Wish For You: Live Outrageously

[image error]If we have learned nothing else this year, and in the years leading up to this one, it is to take leaps of faith and live outrageously. Sometimes you’ll fall on your face. Sometimes you’ll fail at something you were so sure would be a huge success. Sometimes you’ll be scared and you’ll risk everything in the belief that you can, somehow, succeed. And sometimes…

Sometimes…

Sometimes you will land on your feet. Sometimes you will soar. Sometimes an idea you weren’t sure about will become the most successful thing you’ve ever done.

So take leaps of faith. Don’t be afraid to fail. To make mistakes. To epically land on your face. Because each failure brings you closer to success, but if you don’t take that first step, if you don’t risk everything to live outrageously, you’ll never know what you could have accomplished. 

Happy New Year. We welcome 2014 with open arms and outrageous faith in the impossible being entirely possible.

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We hope you enjoyed this blog post. Want more from Karpov Kinrade? Check out our Amazon page here. New to our work? Get Seduced by Innocence FREE everywhere ebooks are sold, and find out why the Seduced Saga is a bestselling fan favorite!