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Dear Amazon, Recently you sent me an email, telling me about your new Kindle Select Program. It was an email brimming with promise, but all too quickly did I see through your marketing ploy, I’m afraid. You are truly asking me to give you my books on an exclusive basis for the privilege to forfeit potential sales so that you… Continue reading "Dear Amazon… here’s what I think of your Kindle Select program"
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As I am revising the latest Jason Dark supernatural mystery, Fu Man Chu’s Vampire, my mind was wandering. I thought about possible covers for the book, and then I had an interesting idea. What, if I let fans design the cover? Here’s the deal. It works like a competition, in essence. You can get your cover on Fu Man Chu’s… Continue reading "Get your cover on the next Jason Dark mystery"
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Things are moving along, as I reported in last week’s post, and I am proud to report that at this time, the Jason Dark Supernatural Mystery Collection 1 has been released. Currently available on Amazon and Barnes&Noble, the book should be available on Kobo any day now also. For the time being, this collection will be available only as eBook.… Continue reading "Jason Dark Supernatural Mystery Collection 1 has been released"
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It seems I have neglected posting here on my blog for a little bit, but let me assure you that it was simply due to so many exciting things going on here on my end. So, perhaps, I should tell you a little about it. A couple of weeks ago, I heard that the city of Baltimore had cut their… Continue reading "Here’s what I’ve been doing lately"
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Yesterday, Amazon released information that with the introduction of the Kindle Fire tablet they will also switch to a new eBook format. Anyone who will check out the quick overview will certainly be pleased and also notice that with the upcoming KF8 eBook format, Amazon seems to have addressed virtually all the shortcomings I have raised in my blog post… Continue reading "Amazon introduces new Kindle eBook format and makes a major misstep"
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I am a huge fan of the Kindle. Always been. I owned a first-generation Kindle and in my mind, the Kindle was every bit as revolutionary a product as the iPhone. A game changer. However, as great as it is, even the Kindle is not perfect. I am not talking here about buttons being too small or somesuch thing. I… Continue reading "10 Things Amazon should correct in the Kindle"
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Only now I realized that, despite posting about the preparations for the launch, I have never actually informed you that my middle-grade chapter book “Kitt Pirate: Snaggletooth’s Treasure” has actually been released. As I mentioned before, I have settled on the pen name Ben Oliver for this release, to create a bit of separation between the horror books I’ve been… Continue reading "Kitt Pirate has been released… and other children’s books"
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Oftentimes when I send out a finished e-book to a client after I completed the formatting for them, I get an email that asks me, “Why is the Table of Contents in the back?” The more I thought about it, the more I felt it is something I should probably talk about here on my blog, because there are a… Continue reading "The Table of Contents in the digital age"
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Last week I told you about my upcoming middle-grade book, Kitt Pirate and also showed you the cover artwork for the book. Well, as these things go so often, we actually made a number of change to the cover because there were a few things that Juan, my wife and I felt could still be improved. So, Juan had another… Continue reading "The Kitt Pirate cover got another rework"
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Some of you may recall that I mentioned before that I have been working on a middle-grade book for some time. Well, the book is essentially finished and almost ready to be published and I thought I’d give a quick heads-up, as to what it actually is. Please meet Kitt Pirate! As the title suggests, this is the story of… Continue reading "The scoop on my middle-grade book"
