May 5 2013
Wind Dancer by Jamie Carie. $ 2.99 From the Jacket Copy: Raised in a British-held frontier town during the American Revolution, Isabelle Renoir is not like other women around her. A free spirit, she dances in the moonlight as a praise offering to God and is more at home fearlessly taking her long rifle and(…)
May 5 2013
When I was at Romantic Times convention, I heard the news that The Tools of Change conference, a technology and publishing conference, was being shut down. Begun in 2007, the conference was aimed at bringing technology and publishing together. The announcement indicates that the sponsor, O’Reilly, will move on to offering other things. The publishing(…)
May 5 2013
Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. You can submit your own First Page using this form. The academic and the free spirit! A near-genius, sheltered astrophysicist(…)
May 4 2013
Dangerous Race by Dee J. Adams. $ FREE From the Jacket Copy: Four years ago, race car driver Tracey Bradshaw almost died in a horrific crash. Now scarred inside and out, she’s making a comeback, but her team is plagued by a series of “accidents”. When the team leader dies under mysterious circumstances, former driver(…)
May 4 2013
Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. You can submit your own First Page using this form. Lillian stared at her waist-length mass of hair in the(…)
May 3 2013
Infinity Blade by Brandon Sanderson. $ .99 From the Jacket Copy: Trained from birth in swordplay and combat, a young knight named Siris has journeyed to the Dark Citadel with a single purpose: fight through the army of Titans to face the tyrannical God King in one-on-one combat.This was his father’s sacred mission, and his(…)
May 3 2013
Simon & Schuster Overcomes BN Issues with Rising Profits and Small Sales Drop | Publishers Lunch – B&N is still refusing to stock S&S books in large quantities but S&S’s position, according to PublishersMarketplace, hasn’t hurt them much. Ebooks accounted for 30% of post holiday sales in quarter one but the growth isn’t in adult(…)
May 2 2013
The Buffet’s “Bouquet of Books” sale will be open May 1-3. More than 175 ebooks, all reduced in price to just 99 cents. Save in categories such as Young Adult, Contemporary, Paranormal, Suspense, Erotic Romance, and more! PLUS, visit the website to win gift cards to your choice of online retailers. $400 in gift cards(…)
May 2 2013
HarperCollins to launch digital-first mystery imprint, with monthly royalty payments – The idea of no advance in a traditional publishing world is really groundbreaking outside of romance. Yet HarperCollins is going to do this for mystery books. “HarperCollins’ William Morrow division will launch Witness, a digital-first imprint for mysteries and thrillers, this October, the company(…)
May 1 2013
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. $ 2.99 From the Jacket Copy: Adapted for a magnificent George Roy Hill film three years later (perhaps the only film adaptation of a masterpiece which exceeds its source), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) is the now famous parable of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran and POW, who has in the later(…)
May 1 2013
The coming era of ‘on-demand’ marketing – Don Linn tweeted this link out. The article describes the movement toward on demand access by consumers to all things and how marketing has to evolve to meet that. For businesses that rely on brick and mortar stores, this line may be chilling: An executive of one major(…)
Apr 30 2013
Rebellious Desire is on sale for $.99 at Amazon today. It wasn’t my favorite Garwood but it’s 99c. The Second Seduction of a Lady by Miranda Neville. $ .99 From the Jacket Copy: Enter the thrilling, sexy world of GeorgianEngland in this splendid Miranda Neville novella—and catch a glimpse of Caro, the heroine ofThe Importance(…)
Apr 30 2013
Macmillan Finalizes E-book Settlement, Will Pay $26 Million – Macmillan has agreed to pay $20 million toward the refund pool along with attorneys’ fees and $1000 to the named plaintiffs as a “service award”. The settlement will be up for approval after a period of public comment. Publishers Weekly Why Still So Few Use Condoms(…)
Apr 30 2013
In the history of American Arts and Letters there have been many persons convinced of their own ability to write. Since they speak the language, they are certain that they can wield a pen and produce a story, transferring the errant imagination into a book. Writing, in this view, is considered an extension—albeit a skilled(…)
Apr 29 2013
His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik. $ .99 From the Jacket Copy: Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain’s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons. When HMS Reliant captures a French(…)
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