Cedar Writes

Category: Promotion

  • Free Fantasy Story

    Free Fantasy Story

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    From today, through Friday, “The Dwarf’s Dryad” will be available free on Amazon! If you like fantasy, stories with a little romance, and a lot of intrigue, check this tale out. After all, it’s free, what do you have to lose? Don’t forget, after you read it, if you liked it, tip the author with…

  • Questionable Marketing Tactics

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    First, read Amanda Green’s post over at Mad Genius Club today: Work Smart and Think When I saw ithe link to a marketing company with a facebook page promoting marketing for writers, it set off red flags. Marketing isn’t easy. I don’t feel like I have a great handle on marketing my writing, because it…

  • Tip the Author

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    In my other business, I frequently work for tips, or at least partly for tips. So I know that feeling of someone slipping a larger bill than anticipated in my hand and telling me “you did a great job, thank you!” So how, you might ask, can you tip an author? You sat quietly and…

  • And it’s Monday

    And it’s Monday

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    Which means there is a new Amazing Stories blog post up… but I didn’t write it! Eric Gustafson guest posts for me, on the importance of cover art, with great humor and radical ideas that deserve to be fully explored. http://amazingstoriesmag.com/2013/08/the-art-of-designing-covers/ And speaking of art, I am playing around with an idea. I’m using Pinterest to…

  • Free Story!

    Free Story!

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    My short story Snow Angel will be free for five days. Download a copy for yourself, and tell your friends about it. When you have time to read it, and if you like it, leave me a review! I love to hear feedback, it keeps me writing. This story is dedicated to my sister Juniper,…

  • Shameless Dabbler

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    Hat tip to Karen Ahle for the title of today’s post. I really am a shameless dabbler. I’m not an expert in anything, but if asked, I can answer questions on a lot of topics, and have often joked I have a ‘trivial mind’ because I know a little about a lot. I’m interested in…

  • Friday Review: Go West!

    Friday Review: Go West!

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    First, the sequel to Take the Star Road, last week’s review, is out! I haven’t started to read it yet, but I’m sure I will enjoy it just as much as the last book. Peter Grant also reviewed Vulcan’s Kittens, an unexpected pleasure for me, as I hadn’t anticipated he would want to read it,…

  • Read the Contract and other Drama

    Read the Contract and other Drama

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    I’m cross-posting this from Amazing Stories Magazine, where I blog weekly, on Mondays. Because I have a deadline for that post, this was submitted, early yesterday; I want to make it clear that this was written before the drama in the comments on LibertyCon AAR yesterday afternoon and evening. The comments on that post are…

  • The Care and Feeding of a Blog

    The Care and Feeding of a Blog

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    Hat tip to Everitt for the title. I’m writing this after a conversation about blogging, and promoting one’s work, and how to set up a blog to do that. In my opinion, it is a good, low-impact way to market yourself, whether you are an author, artist, or something else altogether. There are a few…

  • Why I do what I do

    Why I do what I do

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    I have been asked several times in the last week alone about indie publishing. Before I talk about what I’m doing, and why, let me point out that I am relatively new to this. Vulcan’s Kittens is the first novel I have published, and that came out in 2013. I have been writing and studying…

  • Work of Art

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    Really, I think my stories are just that, stories. And I make pictures to go with them, sometimes. I’m still a little shy of calling myself an artist. But here’s the picture that goes with the fantasy short story I’m publishing this week. Still making up my mind on the title. It could be Wood…

  • Watch This Title

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    I am offering Plant Life, a novella about planetary exploration, free for a limited time. I’m doing this to provide you, my reader, with a chance to sample my work as I get ready to publish a new title, and to celebrate the publication of one of my stories by Naked Reader Press on or…