June 2011

Today I’m researching Feedbooks  from a publisher’s perspective.  I cruised around Feedbooks a bit this weekend, and I liked it. Note: Currently, independent authors and publishers cannot charge money to publish on Feedbooks. Feedbooks is a French company that uses DRM.  They have a three-strikes takedown policy.  They also support various types of CC licences. When […]

Now at Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon. Strike against the evil that lawyers and ex-lovers do by picking up this story for free this weekend at Smashwords using coupon code UH37C! Lanes of the Living Dead by DeAnna Knippling It ain’t easy being divorced. But Bart’s ex-wife’s lawyer, also a voodoo priest, didn’t make it

Here are what, IMO, are the major mobile device markets that I think indie publishers and writers should go after: iBookstore – Currently reaching through Smashwords. Kindle – Currently reaching through Kindle Direct Publishing. Nook – Currently reaching through PubIt! Kobo – Currently reaching through Smashw0rds (only not really); they may open an indy-friendly pub

Day 2 of the Great INDIE Summer Read Giveaway…Haunted Empire is one of the featured books! Continuing on research with mobile device ereaders. Symbian: eReader Pro.  Has its own library. Mobipocket.  Has its own library. Dorian seems to be much less used, doesn’t have a library. Blackberry OS: Kindle for Blackberry Nook for Blackberry eReader

Head over to Coffeemugged to enter the Great INDIE Summer Read Giveaway. And, if you’re interested in cover design, just take a look at the covers, all together.  Wow.  I’m picking up a ton of ideas… I have got to update that Haunted Empire cover.

At coffeemugged.net, a ton of indie authors have pooled their resources to give away over 100 titles, starting tomorrow: I’m happy to announce Coffeemugged’s first Great INDIE Summer Read Giveaway! Several indie authors are giving away copies of their books – the total amount of different books is over one hundred! When the giveaway starts

Another non-nuts-and-bolts intro-ish post.  The nuts and bolts will follow… — I’ll mostly be covering editing your own ebooks, but there are things you should know if you edit other people’s work.  Plus, if you find that you have a hard time editing your own work, you might want to consider trading edits with another

I used to be an Apple fan.  Gah. Apparently, Apple had a deadline of June 30 that would force all app makers to sell additional stuff only through Apple. This would have meant that any book that you bought on your iPad/iPod would be charged an extra 30% to the publisher. Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and

Now at Smashwords, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. Need help putting one foot in front of the other? No point in giving up writing; you’ll just give up on giving up on it, and you’ll be back. How to Fail & Keep on Writing Kill your excuses, Combat naysayers with facts & figures, & Mail

I reread Sandman over the last two weeks, off and on. Meanwhile, I had to retrench financially, which both meant making some money sacrifices and making time sacrifices, so I am writing less fiction.  I also put together my ebook “How to Fail and Keep on Writing,” which I found as much of a kick