DeAnna Knippling

New kids’ fiction now available from Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble,with other sites to follow (Kobo, Apple, Sony). I’m trying something new… This is actually a two-story pack, with “The Test” and another kids’ story set in a fantasy world, “The Scaredy Wizard of Theornin.”  Both play around with Grimms’ fairy-tale themes. The Test […]

New fiction!  This is another book that’s going up on Kindle Direct Select, which means I’m leaving it up there exclusively for three months (until July 9).  I’ll announce when it’s available on other sites, but for now it’s at Amazon.com. If you buy an Amazon copy but need an additional file format, contact me

Great!  Because the publishers don’t want you to. Pikes Peak Library District is calling out big publishers about not providing library copies of ebooks…or charging over $100 a copy…or only letting the library check out the book 26 times before they charge the library for a new copy. See their Facebook NOT eNOUGH page for

What what what?  Why didn’t I know that National Library Week was coming up?  Because I’m an ungrateful wretch, that’s why.  Pass the word on! You remember when you were a kid and the only place you could get book (aside from Christmas, maybe) was the library?  Yeah. At Pikes Peak Library District, check out

Available at Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com, more to come… Ebooks 101: Beginning Formatting by DeAnna Knippling I put together an ebook based on the Formatting 101 class I taught for Pikes Peak Writers in February…adding screen shots, step-by-step instructions, templates, checklists, and more.  This is the formatting ebook you want if you want

I am so wiped out this week, and still trying to understand the effects of all my messing around wtih Alien Blue over the last few weeks, so I’ll sit on the updates for that for a bit.  Also, I’m going to be tied up next week, so posts here may be, um, a bit scanty until

After finding out a few days ago that some independent bookstores were using QR codes and Google Books to sell ebooks, Google Books has been on my radar. I have one ebook up for sale through Google Books, because it was such a pain in the butt to get it up there that I stopped there.

Try naming a TV show. “I put Everybody Loves Raymond on the original script. What I loved about it was that it was like I Love Lucy, and I was trying to do an old-fashioned show — a traditional sitcom to break out from everything hip and edgy at the time. Plus, it had that specificity: Once

Richard Lee Byers writes in Astrojive: In the “Conan” movie, the Cimmerian is out to avenge the murder of his father and the slaughter of his clan. In the “John Carter” film, the hero is a Confederate veteran who lost his wife and child in the war (right, just like the dude in Hell on

Some people suffer pain. Other people mock it. What’s the secret to never getting a bad review? This is a question authors get asked a lot. Hell, I’ve asked other authors the same question. “I don’t know. I don’t read reviews,” some say with a benevolent smile. Others shrug their shoulders and say, “There is