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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Indie Publishing

A couple of announcements this week. First, my new guide to indie publishing Down the Indie Road is now available. It will be free to existing subscribers and offered as a bonus to new subscribers. The content for this post is excerpted from Down the Indie Road. Second, Advanced Reader Copies (ARCs) for my upcoming novel Confessions of a Failed Environmentalist will also available to subscribers in just a few short days. See below for details on how to get your copy.

Down the Indie Road

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Three Authors, Three Strategies, Three Sales: The Results

Photo Credit: Folsom Natural / flickr / Creative Commons

Many of you probably know that we had a sale on three of our launch Apocalypse Weird books this month. My novel, Reversal, was one of the three, and the other two included Immunity by E.E. Giorgi and The Serenity Strain by Chris Pourteau. All three novels were reduced from their usual price of $3.44 to 99 cents from May 3rd to May 12th. Even though these three books are not indie published per se, as Wonderment Media had paid all of ou...

Six Reasons to Write and Read about the Apocalypse

This week, three of the Apocalypse Weird books are on sale for 0.99 cents including Immunity by E. E. Giorgi, The Serenity Strain by Chris Pourteau and my Reversal. The sale only lasts until May 10th, so if you are missing one of these Apocalypse Weird novels for your collection, now is the time to pick it up.

For Children's Book Week, I am also participating in sponsoring a rafflecopter draw to win a Kindle Fire HD Kids through Mother Daughter Book Reviews who did such an amazing job review...

Beginnings and Endings

Just a short post this week, as I am heading off on a little holiday without my computer for the first time in six years (which is a bit scary), but I wanted to update you on a few important announcements and talk a bit about endings, as they have been on my mind.

Tales of Tinfoil, the conspiracy theory anthology to which I contributed a story about Elvis, launches on April 17th. It is a marvelous collection with stories about JFK, Lincoln, Hitler and Area 51 put together by editor extraordina...

Female Character Archetypes and Strong Female Characters

I’m about two thirds finished my upcoming novel, Confessions of a Failed Environmentalist, to be released in early June and was thinking about my main character, Alana. She is excessively concerned about the environment, at the cost of her own sanity sometimes (and the sanity of those around her), and yet somehow manages to screw up in many of her well-intentioned environmental endeavors. It is more comedy than my previous works and is intended to exploit those uncomfortable intersections of...

Seven Things I do while Writing

Announcements

I wanted to update you on some of the promos and other events coming up in the short term before it is too late. New real blog post to follow early next week!

In the Shadows of the Mosquito Constellation on sale

In the Shadows of the Mosquito Constellation, my dystopian adult fiction, is on sale this weekend for 0.99 in the US and UK. The countdown promo ends on the 31st, so now is a great time to pick it up if you want it! It is dystopian and apocalyptic, but set in the real world...

The Pros and Cons of Head Hopping

Apologies for the long boring blog gap, I have been working like a lunatic since January first on the wrap up for a one and a half year research project for work that has taken me away from my writing life more than I would like. Now that I am done, I will get back to the regular schedule of blogging and publishing. After all the Apocalypse Weird hoopla, I wanted to get back to some craft blog posts, although I should mention, the seventh AW novel, Hoodoopocalypse, by Kim Wells is launching t...

A Revolution in Publishing

Just a little bit more about Apocalypse Weird this week and then we will return to regular blog post programming about writing craft and book marketing next week. I wanted to let you know about some of the amazing prizes that will be offered at the Apocalypse Weird Facebook Launch Party on February 23rd and talk a little bit about why Apocalypse Weird is a revolution in publishing.

Five new Apocalypse Weird novels will be launched on February 23, 2015. They include: Texocalypse Now by Michae...

Reversal ARCs Now Available

As most of you who follow my blog know, I have been involved in this cool new thing called Apocalypse Weird for the last six months, and I am lucky enough to be one of the launch authors. The five launch novels will be released on February 23, 2015. The first launch novel Texocalypse Now by Michael Bunker and Nick Cole is already available for pre-order.

I am pleased to announce that Advance Reader Copies (ARC) of my novel Reversal, which explores the polar version of the apocalypse, are now a...

The Mind of a Writer

A few announcements... Things are heating up on the Apocalypse Weird front. We are now less than thirty days from the big February 23rd launch of the first five books, which will include my novel Reversal. I will be revealing my cover (designed by the super talented Michael Corley) very soon. If you sign up on the Apocalypse Weird site, you will be entitled to receive ARCs of all five launch novels. There will be some great prizes for reviewing the ARCs, including a pitch session to be a tier...