Tag: amazon
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Hugo Nomination Time
Brad Torgerson has created an excellent list over at his blog, the Sad Puppies slate. As I said last year, this is a great guideline, but nominate the works you think best. Not most likely to win, BEST. Once, the Hugo was an award that meant something, and now, it’s handed out as a party…
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Barely Legitimate
Commentary on a certain author’s claims about Amazon damaging his sales… “Lets look at this for a minute – Amazon, a retailer, is discouraging sales. Being of some small journalistic training, I went to Amazon, and found Douglas Preston. Wait, if Amazon is discouraging sales, wouldn’t they not have any material for him on their…
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Formatting for Ebook Publication
I keep getting asked about this, and I think I answered it before, but then again, the requirements keep changing, so I’ll go over it again. Honestly, it’s getting much easier, and I fully anticipate that in a couple of years, it will be mush more plug-and-play than it is even now. Gone are the…
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Review: Fallen Race
First of all, I know some of you know this trick, but I’ll tell it for the rest of you. Before you buy a book on Amazon, you can take a “look inside” they call it, which is a free preview which allows you to read the first part of the book and see if…
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Sugar Skull for Sale
The short story is available on Amazon and Smashwords, in an unprecedented display of coordination by Stonycroft Publishing, on the same day! Will wonders never cease… It’s only a dollar, you can’t even get a cup of coffee for that little any more, and this is a story for a dark night and to never…