Castles: A Fictional Memoir of a Girl with Scissors by Benjamin X. Wretlind My rating: 5 of 5 stars Often, you can tell on the first page whether a writer knows what he or she is doing. There’s a flow, a grace to the way these writers construct their sentences that makes reading a joy. […]
The multi-talented author David C. Cassidy has completed his third book. He’s releasing The Dark, a very creepy, scary and riveting tale on December 15. It’s available for pre-order on Amazon right now. What’s it about? It knows what you want. It knows what you need. In denial over his father’s death in a horrific […]
The boundaries between the different types of publishing just keep getting more blurred and more porous. Amazon and Hachette’s dispute has reached a new plateau, with the respective CEOs writing mass emails to explain their respective positions over book discounting. Amazon is also in a dispute with Time Warner, and has blocked pre-orders of […]
Photo by jsorbieus via Flickr Creative Commons. Last month, I wrote in this blog that I did not consider my books to be self-published because I did not do the work myself. In fact, a number of talented, creative and generous people made critical contributions to the development of all my books, as […]
Sizzling Thriller Hot Box Release: 8 SIZZLING THRILLERS FROM 8 BEST-SELLING AUTHORS Get yours today Amazon Smashwords (99c) Goodreads What’s in the Hot Box: Steven Bannister – Fade to Black John Paul Davis – The Cortes Enigma C R Hiatt – Sanctioned Kill David Leadbeater – The Razor’s Edge Andy Lucas – Race Amazon Karen Perkins – Dead Reckoning C K […]
A guest reblog from bestselling thriller author Mike Wells I had to make sure my readers had the benefit of Mike Wells’ excellent essay on digital publishing. At present, I only publish my work in digital format—ebooks and audiobooks. Since many of you are also authors or seriously thinking of writing a book, […]
It baffles me that there are still authors, intelligent professionals who want to reach an audience, yet who do not use the most effective and cheapest way of doing that — ebooks. Last Saturday, I participated in the first Ottawa Book Fest held by the National Capital branch of the Canadian Authors Association. While it wasn’t […]
