A review of Bombing Hitler’s Hometown by Mike Croissant On 25 April 1945, some 700 bombers and fighter escort airplanes from the US 15th Air Force took to the predawn air in southern Italy. Their target: Linz, Austria, the town where Adolf Hitler grew up. But more importantly for the airmen, Linz was their number […]
Ghost Star is a rollicking good space opera for young readers. Anyone from reading age to mid-teens will enjoy it. Plot Nolo Bray, a member of the Ruam race from the planet Tac, is the most elusive smuggler the galaxy. The book opens as his ship, the Ghost Star is finally caught and boarded by […]
My email inbox is getting crowded with a lot of surefire offers lately. So many people offer online courses to help me learn marketing so I can sell more books. Here are some examples from my inbox. Nick Stephenson’s Your First 10,000 Readers Bryan Cohen Selling for Authors Joanna Penn, the Creative Penn—three courses, including […]
Note: This post was originally published in 2016. The Kindle World initiative, including all titles published within it, has since been cancelled by Amazon. Some authors, including this one, have since been revising their titles and republishing them to comply with copyright. The newest Kindle World, the Sydney Rye Universe, launched with new titles from […]
Day 4 of Sydney Rye Kindle World Week The new Sydney Rye Kindle World launches today—Thursday, March 17. As an extended St. Paddy’s Day present from me to you, valued readers, Written Words presents excerpts from each of the seven novellas in the project. Today’s installment is from the author who introduced me to the Kindle Worlds concept, the […]
Finding the funds to cover editing, design and production of a book is a challenge every independent author must work out. This week, the award-winning Roger Eschbacher describes his solution. This post originally appeared on the old Scott’s Written Words blog. As just about any “indie” author will admit one of the biggest knocks against our […]
Writing is a job, or a vocation or maybe an addiction that requires you to do a lot of things besides writing. Then there are those of us who seem to find a lot of other things to do (hold on while I straighten that picture on the wall) before we can get around to […]