Last month, I started taking a better peek at my traffic on Smashwords. What is Smashwords, some of you might ask? Well, dear reader, it’s a nice little retailer/distributor of ebooks that will let you download ebooks in any format…
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neat lil indie author blog
As you can see, I’ve mostly been on hiatus from social media for the month of August, but I did find a neat lil blog that is full of info, and so I had to share it. No big post…
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Selling to 5000. Get an ebook for nothing
In celebration of 5000 sold Here’s the deal: Buy OIT from Amazon, email theaexcerpts@gmail.com with the receipt (you can delete out any personal info, but I’m going to bin them after anyway) and I’ll shoot you off a coupon code…
the Water Witch cometh: -or- what happens when the character wants more
In April of last year I spent the entire month flashing around the blogospere in something I lovingly called: the blogstreak. I wrote 30 flash fiction pieces for 30 blogs and let them pick the genre. It stretched my writing…
What is an indie?
I had a ton of fun this weekend playing around with some movie making software you can get online. Xtranormal offers 300 bits up front to create a fun movie, so it cost me nothing. I’m no script writer and…
Twitter Follow love. Get a few: Leave a few
I love doing interviews; I meet so many nice people that way and can pass on their cool lil blogs. I did an interview over the weekend with Ashley Barron, who I met on Triberr and she was kind enough…
Prizes: Win stuff during the Valentine Bloghop
Get Yer Sweat-on hopping from blog to blog this Valentines season From Feb 1-14, 2012, 25 authors and bloggers are giving stuff away. All you have to do is hop from blog to blog. The Valentine Blog Hop is sponsored…
Buy an Ebook get an ebook: A tribute to LC Evans
Today is tribute day for LC Evans Like most people, I’ve been touched by Cancer in some way; it’s tough these days to find someone who hasn’t either lost a loved one to the disease, is living through the difficult…
Use your background to create great characters
I’m one of those readers who really digs a good character; I’m a writer who is always always trying to find ways to make the characters who populate my stories authentic. I want those characters to come alive for a…
Tagged with: characters, rock and roll fiction, susan gottfried, writing
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Posted in guest blogging, Uncategorized, writerwednesday exercises
5 Indie authors that give me hope for 2012: (Amanda Hocking notwithstanding)
Instead of writing my own blog post for New Year’s, I wrote one for another author’s blog. I love to guest post at other blogs, so I jumped at the chance. I do hope you will click over to it…
Tagged with: Amanda Hocking, indie authors, john locke, LinkedIn, self publishing
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