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Tag Archives: The Uninvited
BookBub
I am looking into trying out BookBub to advertise books. Again…this has been heralded as THE WAY to make a name for oneself by more than one author friend of mine. So…I’m going to try it. It’s a complicated and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Technology, Writing
Tagged Advertisements, BookBub, Broken Windows, Clowns, Do The Dead Dream?, ERO, Newsletters, Promotion, Psychic, Readers, Sleepwalkers, The Uninvited, Voice
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Some Books, Cats, and a Gift
Last weekend I held my first “dedicated” book signing in several years. By that I mean it was “all about me,” not a bunch of us at once, like at MileHiCon. It was weird. “Hi! Look at me! Buy my … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fun, Leisure, To Be Human, Writing
Tagged Author Signings, Author Survival Kit, Erotica, Hotline Psychics, Kattywampus Books, Lon Kirschner, Sleepwalkers, The Bookman, The Uninvited, Voice
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Going Indie—What I’ve Learned (So Far)—Part 11
It’s truly never-ending. When you’re doing everything yourself—and by “yourself” I do mean having a team, but though you do have a team, you’re still in charge—you never really get a break. And that’s okay, because, in this instance, it … Continue reading
Posted in To Be Human, Writing
Tagged Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com, Copyright, CreateSpace, E-book, ERO, Facebook, fiction, Google Alerts, iAuthor, Indie Publishing, International Standard Book Number, KDP, Lessons Learned, New York, Newsletter, Nook, Pain, Post Office, Psychic, PubIt!, reading, self publishing, Sleepwalkers, Smashwords, The Uninvited, Wailing Loon, WordPress
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Writing The Distasteful
I do not like violence. I like writing about it even less. While working the Psychic manuscript, I have great misgivings about how nasty I should go, regarding a certain scene that comes later in the book (to be honest, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, To Be Human, Writing
Tagged Craft, Distasteful, No Frills Books, Organic Writing, Psychic, The Uninvited, Verisimilitude, writing, Writing the Nasty, Writing VIolence
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Going Indie—What I’ve Learned (So Far)—Part 9
Taxes. Note to IRS: Writing is NOT a hobby to me. We had our taxes done this past week, and, once again, I got hit with the standard spiel about “Hobby/Loss” rules. About my pitiful pittance of so-called “profit.” Why? … Continue reading
Posted in To Be Human, Writing
Tagged Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com, CreateSpace, E-book, ERO, Facebook, fiction, Google Alerts, iAuthor, Indie Publishing, International Standard Book Number, KDP, Lessons Learned, New York, Newsletter, Nook, Pain, Post Office, PubIt!, reading, self publishing, Sleepwalkers, Smashwords, The Uninvited, Wailing Loon, WordPress
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Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest
Well the contest everyone loves to hate by the company everyone loves to hate has opened its entry period February 16 – March 2, 2014, for the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest (ABNA). It’s open to all unpublished and … Continue reading
Posted in Leisure, To Be Human, Writing
Tagged ABNA, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest, Contests, ERO, Indie Publishing, The Uninvited, writing
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