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When you are a writer, doing research is part of the job, and oftentimes it takes up a major portion of our preparatory time. If you are an author working on period stories, like I am with my Jason Dark dime novels for example, this research is typically even more encompassing. In order to ensure accuracy of the material presented… Continue reading "History can be fun… but not in school"
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If you’ve been following the discussion on J.A. Konrath’s blog before the weekend where I guest-blogged about the success of my Jason Dark series — or its lack thereof — you will have noticed that there were a large number of comments, opinions and suggestions. In the aftermath of the public bloodletting I am currently in the process of weeding… Continue reading "The aftermath of the bloodletting"
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I just wanted to make a quick update before the weekend, to point out that I have been guest-blogging on two sites today. The first one is over on thriller author J.A. Konrath’s blog where I discuss some of the strategies I have employed with my “Jason Dark” series in order to get it noticed. You can read about some… Continue reading "Guest-blog Friday and two books you have to read!"
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This is the ninth installment of a series of articles. To read the previous one, please click here Okay, it is time for me to finally make good on my promise and turn your book’s HTML source file into a proper eBook. All we need is a little software called Calibre that you can download here. I want to take… Continue reading "Take pride in your eBook formatting (Part IX)"
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Apple is making headlines again. I am sure you have heard the buzz that Apple this week rejected Sony’s eBook reader application for the iPhone. Yeah, quite the bummer, I know. Instantly after it became known that Apple rejected the app people began to discuss the ramifications of that move. It would seem at this point that Apple rejected the… Continue reading "Does Apple really want to be such a sore loser?"
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There has been a lot of discussion in recent months about the pricing of eBooks, most of it stating that eBooks are too expensive and that prices need to come down. Seth Godin made a post on his blog recently pointing out that eBooks don’t really compete with traditional books but with mobile games, music and downloadable movies. While there… Continue reading "Are eBooks really overpriced?"
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This is the eighth installment of a series of articles. To read the previous one, please click here Last time I promised you I’d cover some more frills for your eBook formatting, and as you’d certainly agree, images are a big part of that. Even for fiction writers images offer great opportunities to present your book in the best possible… Continue reading "Take pride in your eBook formatting (Part VIII)"
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Instead of going on about books all the time, today I’m going to talk to you about movies a little bit. As some of you may know, I am also the editor at DVD Review & high definition and have been reviewing movies for that site for the past, I don’t know, fifteen years or so. There is a movie… Continue reading "I want to see “Burke & Hare”"
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This is the seventh installment of a series of articles. To read the previous one, please click here As you can probably tell by now from the last installment, we are by now getting pretty close to real tangible results that you can actually use, so let’s press on without delay. The first thing we are going to do next… Continue reading "Take pride in your eBook formatting (Part VII)"
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I always find it interesting how people talk about one thing killing off another when new gadgets are announced and released to market. How the iPad was a Kindle-killer, for example. As we all know by now, nothing could have been further from the truth, of course, and it doesn’t surprise me a bit. I’ve never understood why our culture… Continue reading "Amazon profiting from Apple’s success"
