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Another Writer's Process – Eric Tozzi

As you may know, I recently contributed to an anthology about time travel edited by David Gatewood with highly successful indie authors of the likes of Jason Gurley, Michael Bunker and Edward W. Robertson, to name a few. The Facebook launch party was also blast thanks to Susan Kaye Quinn.

Eric Tozzi

Eric Tozzi and I kind of considered ourselves to be the new kids on the block in the anthology, even though he used to work as a documentary TV producer/editor for the Mars Exploration Program (!...

Marketing Your Book – A Primer – Part Seven

The paperback of In the Shadows of the Mosquito Constellation is about to go live, Synchronic will be available on May 22nd and we are having a launch party on Facebook for which there will be lots of great prizes - you have to attend. I have updated my Marketing Your Book – A Primer – Part Four on advertising with my very positive Book Bub experience. I have also added some thoughts to the choosing categories and keywords post. Check out the updated materials. I'm nearing the end of my marke...

Ten Reasons You Should Buy My Book

So I just published my second novel, In the Shadows of the Mosquito Constellation. It's about love, politics and survival in a post-economic collapse world. I stop short of calling it dystopian or apocalyptic because although the world has fallen apart, my characters are surviving and trying to build a new local order. Terrible things happen, but there are also moments of happiness and hope, and the overall tone of the book is that in the face of total devastation, we could rebuild. There ar...

Ten Reasons You Should Buy My Book... Maybe

So I just published my second novel, In the Shadows of the Mosquito Constellation. It's about love, politics and survival in a post-economic collapse world. I stop short of calling it dystopian or apocalyptic because although the world has fallen apart, my characters are surviving and trying to build a new local order. Terrible things happen, but there are also moments of happiness and hope, and the overall tone of the book is that in the face of total devastation, we could rebuild. There ar...

Writing Process Blog Tour

Jemima Pett author of The Princelings of the East series and a whole cornucopia of other books, recently tagged me to join the Writing Process Blog Tour.

If you are tagged, you are to write responses to the questions below and then tag three other authors.

At the bottom of this post you will find three talented authors who will be posting in the next week or so.

The QuestionsWhat am I working on?

I am exactly just over the halfway mark in the first draft of A Quill Ladder, the sequel to my mid...

Marketing Your Book – A Primer – Part Six

This week I am covering the following aspects of marketing:

1) Independent booksellers

2) Your friends

3) Wattpad

I have also added a few more topics to the "marketing your book" list – book events, participating in an anthology, and Lendle. I will cover those in part eight of this series and will continue to add new ideas as opportunities arise. I have also made sure to update earlier posts with new data as I have added to my marketing experience so be sure to check back on earlier posts for new...

Marketing Your Novel – A Primer – Part Six

This week I am covering the following aspects of marketing:

1) Independent booksellers

2) Your friends

3) Wattpad

I have also added a few more topics to the marketing your book list – book events, participating in an anthology, and Lendle. I will cover those in part eight of this series and will continue to add new ideas as opportunities arise. I have also made sure to update earlier posts with new data as I have added to my marketing experience so be sure to check back on earlier posts for new i...

Formatting Your Novel - The Spaces

This week is a bit of a different focus as I am again working on formatting, this time of In the Shadows of the Mosquito Constellation, which is now with the proofreader. As with A Pair of Docks, I had questions that I needed to address with three simple aspects of formatting:

The first line of each chapter;POV shifts; andScene breaks.

Try as I might, I could find no definitive advice on how these three things are handled, and surprisingly there seems to be a lot of confusion out there on the p...

Marketing Your Book – A Primer – Part Five

I am deep in final editing land for In the Shadows of the Mosquito Constellation (so many comma choices) and first draft land for the sequel to A Pair of Docks, so I will keep this brief. I also happened upon a few more marketing options in the last few weeks so I will add those to my list and do a seventh blog post in my marketing series. There may be a brief blog hiatus as I have to make some critical comma decisions in the next few weeks, and will have some other exciting writing news to s...

Marketing Your Book – A Primer – Part Four

Okay, Kindle Countdown on A Pair of Docks done, temporary bestseller status in my category achieved, powder skied, it must time for another blog post on marketing.

Photo Credit: Jason Jones /flickr /Creative Commons

This week I am focusing on:

· Entering book competitions

· Giveaways

· Advertising

These three options are where marketing can start to get more expensive than the previous options discussed, which have tended to be more time consuming than costly. Book competitions, giveaways and ad...