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Drummer Boy/Linville Caverns

In conjunction with my post at Megalith Books about Drummer Boy and the legends that inspired the novel, here are some pictures of the actual caverns.The coloring is caused by minerals.




Today's stop on the Kindle Giveaway Blog Tour is at Curling Up By The Fire

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Your opinion on our cover?

Hey, we are working on the cover for our children's book and seeking input on covers. Here are three options we have right now. It's probable we'll use a mix of suggestions so please help us out by commenting.

Today's stop on the Kindle Giveaway Blog Tour is at Bad A** Bookie

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The Numbers Game

JA Konrath has only sold 100,000 ebooks. As usual, he makes a good case for the wisdom of controlling content. I spent a good part of the first half of the year pinballing around and learning, taking on the publishing industry, analyzing numbers, trying to inspire indie writers to quality, and it's just a big explosion of everything. It feels like the 1960s music scene must have, lots of everything of all levels and genres, all getting out there in a vibrant mix.

Time sorts it all out. So I wi...

Pandora's Box for Halloween

Day #21 on the Kindle Giveaway Blog Tour: Megalith Books

Bewitched Bookworms likes Speed Dating with the Dead (the book, not the dating)

Don't forget to Twitter "hauntedcomputer" to be eligible for the Pandora's Box giveaway and free ebooks from MJ Rose, Violetta Marmalade Spirit, Kiki Howell, Jason Halstead, Steve Hawk, Adolfo Pena, and 100 more.

September Zombie event

Velvet at VVB is running a zombie event for the end of September--http://vvb32reads.blogspot.com/2010/08/september-zombies-schedule-2010.html I'll be giving away a Murdermouth copy and doing some other things. Looks like some cool bloggers involved so give them some love.

Also the Pandora's Box is over 100 e-books now, sow make sure you follow me on Twitter to be eligible!

Working on a four-way novella with Steve Lockley, Steven Savile, and William Meikle, it is definitely interesting and a lit...

Day of rest

Just got in the paper copies of Speed Dating with the Dead, so if you are into "real books," come to my web site and get your signed copy (cheaper than you can get it anywhere else). You can also order it through bookstores, libraries, Amazon, and Internet booksellers. In other words, pretty much any place, but you probably won't see it on store shelves. So ask for it by name. I don't think any other books use that title!

Also have the Dirt trade paperback graphic novel and the paper version o...

Kindle Giveaway Tour one-sixth done

With today's post at Candace's Book Blog, I've passed the halfway point of the first month. People have asked "How can you keep it fresh for 90 days?" That is a good question that, once in a while gives me pause. Can I do five or six Q & A's and answer honestly but different each time? How much can I write about the same topic, such as the ever-popular use of ghost hunting as used in Speed Dating with the Dead? Can I go that long without breaking into a writing-related rant, or examination of...

Rest in Peace, Johanna Stapleton

If you read my blog and follow my adventures, you might have heard me talk about the translated editions of my books and that I had a team of translators. Johanna Stapleton was actually one of the first I worked with. I can't even remember how we "met" online, but she was living in France at the time and had just received a degree in translating. She translated a French edition of the Dirt #1 comic and did a couple of chapters of The Red Church, which we'd sent with a publisher before decidin...

The Red Church on sale for 99 cents

Okay, The Red Church is on sale under the Overly Dramatic Push For Top 100 so I can give away a Kindle. In some ways, this was one of my bars for the success of the Kindle Giveaway Blog Tour--to create a buzz for one book. So, this one, probably my best book so far, is lowered to 99 cents for a limited time. How limited? Until I stop.

So please help these poor starving children eat a Kindle--ah, heck, give the money to charity instead. But if you want a cool, cheap read, go to Amazon right...

Debbi Mack-- Stumbling into Indie Publishing

(Debbi has been one of the bright spots of my indie journey, both for her mystery fiction and her professional comportment. While she's here, I am over at her Midlist Life blog, making wildly speculative predictions about the future of publishing and giving away three digital comics as well as Kindle giveaway entries. If you're on Twitter today, follow the "#pubfuture" meme for even wilder guesses!)

Debbi Mack is the author of Identity Crisis, a hardboiled mystery novel in which Maryland attor...