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iAi cover reveal: The Dark by David C. Cassidy

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 […]

Today, November 11, 2014, is Remembrance Day in Canada, Veterans’ Day in the US, Armistice Day in the UK. It’s a day recognized under many names in countries around the world, marking the end of the First World War, called the “defining calamity of the 20th century.” That calamity, which took millions of lives and […]

Two exciting new books from independent authors

I am excited that two good author friends and iAi colleagues have just released new books, Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Roger Eschbacher. First, Roger Eschbacher has published Undrastormur, a children’s book about a young Viking named Eirik. Here is the blurb:  Eirik has a problem. A lot of problems, actually. While out gathering mushrooms, his small […]

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     […]