Tag: Smashwords
Finally! Any Tomorrow Complete
I’ve been considering this move since the Any Tomorrow Trilogy was first published. For those of you who have been reading this blog for a while, you may remember that the decision about how to best publish my 300K-plus word novel caused quite a dilemma for me. One book or…
Do you prefer Amazon or Smashwords?
I’ve offered free promotions for my books before and have always used Smashwords.com because it’s so easy to do. The results, however, have been less than stellar and I’m wondering if Smashwords.com is one of the problems. Do you have a preference about which site you download from? It would…
“Any Tomorrow: The Calling” from Smashwords.com for FREE until January 15th
[Too late! This offer has expired, however the Any Tomorrow trilogy is available now in a single volume, Any Tomorrow Complete.] If you enjoy dark fantasy, here is the chance to download “Any Tomorrow: The Calling” from Smashwords.com for FREE until January 15th. All you have to do is go…
What Should I Do Now?
Well, it’s been almost a year since I published the first volume of my Any Tomorrow Trilogy. And I must say that the results have been remarkably unremarkable. I made a decision to break up my 300K word novel into three parts, but my feeling is now that it just…
Read Any Tomorrow: The Calling for FREE!
The entire Any Tomorrow Trilogy is now available so I’m celebrating by offering Any Tomorrow: The Calling as a free download until March 1st. If you’re not familiar with the Any Tomorrow series, here’s the lowdown on Any Tomorrow: The Calling: Fraleigh, a former imagery intelligence analyst, artfully crafts a…
The Series Is Complete!
The third and final novel of the Any Tomorrow series is in the pipeline for publication at Amazon and Smashwords. Any Tomorrow: The Culling is available from Amazon and Smashwords now and at other distributors such as Barnes & Noble sometime in the coming weeks. While I was at it,…
The Changes Never End
Okay, so I’m planning to publish Any Tomorrow: The Culling, the final novel of the Any Tomorrow Trilogy, in January. Everything is ready to go. The problem is that a few weeks ago I started working on what I thought would be a new novel tentatively called The Last Pope…
There And Back Again!
I admit that the title of this post isn’t original, but I figure that if it was good enough for Bilbo Baggins, it’s certainly good enough for me. I am now home again after spending almost a month on the road and slowly beginning to pick up where I left…
It’s Great To Be Back Home!
Very late last night I came dragging in after a number of delightful hours squeezed into spaces barely fit for human habitation, much less flight. About the only good thing I can say for the experience is that Coke and peanuts are still complimentary and my car was still sitting…
Managing Social Media and More!
It is a wet, awful day here in Central Florida. But it is the perfect day to get caught up on my blog and the other social media I use to talk about my books and stories. To tell the truth, I haven’t been very good at exploiting social media…
Here We Go Again!
Update on Any Tomorrow: The Calling : This evening I submitted revised versions of Any Tomorrow: The Calling to Amazon and Smashwords. There were just a couple of minor corrections, but I needed to update the product descriptions to include some reader comments anyway. Update on Any Tomorrow: The Curse…
A Quick Update
Latest Submissions: I just submitted a short-story for the October issue of eFiction Magazine. The title of the piece is “Christmas”, for lack of a better name and for no other reason than it takes place at Christmas. If it gets accepted, I look forward to your opinions about the…
Read Any Tomorrow: The Calling for free!
[Note that the promotion referred to in this post is way past over, but you can still enjoy the Any Tomorrow Trilogy in Any Tomorrow Complete. Thanks.] What a deal! All I ask is that you provide feedback about what you liked and didn’t like about it. That’s it! Just…
Feedback, Finally!
It’s hard to get feedback. Relatives are prone to either sugar coat their opinions or say nothing, and most strangers won’t be bothered. For most writers it’s difficult to establish a personal relationship, even virtual, with readers and make them comfortable enough to honestly express their opinions. Authors of self-published…
I’m not rich yet
So my eBook, Any Tomorrow: The Calling, has been out at Amazon and all the major eBook distributors for a couple of months. How come I’m not rich yet? Gosh, if you read the user forums at Kindle, it seems like everyone who posts is selling upwards of 900 copies…
I’ve published my e-book, now what?
Okay, so my first eBook, Any Tomorrow: The Calling, is available from the major eBook distributors, including http://www.amazon.com/, http://www.barnesandnoble.com/, http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/, and http://www.smashwords.com/. I’ve successfully self-published through Smashwords and Amazon, creating every aspect of the publication, including the cover art. I even blog about the self-publishing experience at http://anytomorrow.com/ My dilemma…
Marketing Me
Okay, so my eBook, Any Tomorrow: The Calling, is out there, published, available at Amazon, Smashwords, and Diesel, soon to be at Barnes and Noble, Apple iBookstore, Sony, and Kobo. My eBook is out there floating around in the ether with thousands of other eBooks. It’s out there, but how…
Finally in the Premium Catalog!
Today’s post is all about Smashwords.com because Any Tomorrow: The Calling has finally been accepted into the Smashwords Premium Catalog. This means that, besides being listed on the Smashwords website, it will be distributed to a range of other sellers also. The following schedule was provided for distribution. Channel Next…
Monday Update
What I am reading ― As a geographer, I find Peter Turchi’s Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer an absolute must read. His use of process of exploration as a metaphor for the discovery process we, as writers, use is apt and dead on. More than that it…
A Matter of Perspective
If you go to Amazon.com and search for books with keyword of “horror”, you’ll get 56,575 results, but only 9,202 are Kindle Editions. If you search for books with the keyword “speculative fiction”, only 745 results are returned, but only 320 are Kindle Editions. If you search for a book…
eBook Description
In the latest news from Smashwords, Any Tomorrow: The Calling has passed the automated vetting process and is now up for review by the “vetting review team”. I suspect that passing the automated vetting had something to do with the updated file I submitted on Monday, although I was never…
Paying For It
Last night I submitted updated files for Any Tomorrow: The Calling to Amazon and Smashwords. It was a surprisingly simple process for both distributors, however after almost 24 hours I am #932 in the queue for processing at Smashwords. It takes time, but I’m okay with that. After all it…
To Wait or Not
Writing is a hard thing. There is nothing easy about it. I now have the first book of my trilogy, Any Tomorrow: The Calling, out on Amazon and Smashwords (inclusion in the Smashwords Premium Catalog is still pending). I have the second book in the series, Any Tomorrow: The Curse,…
What about the second book?
As I have been waiting to see what would happen with Any Tomorrow: The Calling and have started talking it up among chat rooms and groups, I’ve also been final editing the second book in the trilogy, Any Tomorrow: The Curse. In fact, Any Tomorrow: The Curse is almost ready for…
Notes About Kindle and Smashwords Distribution
For those of you who haven’t submitted an eBook to Amazon (Kindle Direct Publishing) or Smashwords for distribution there are a couple of things to keep in mind regarding time. Assuming your eBook file has been properly formatted and you have an acceptable piece of cover art, getting your eBook…
Now What?
Okay, so my eBook is active on Amazon.com in the .mobi format for Kindle and available in a variety of formats from Smashwords.com. I must say that getting the eBook into both distributors was much easier than I first thought it would be. Using the Smashwords Style Guide was very…
The Story Unfolds
cjsand asked for it, so here it is. A teaser, a little hint about the storyline of the Any Tomorrow trilogy. I guess I should have provided this before, but up until very recently I wasn’t completely sure what form the novel would take, or even if it would be…
Those Dark Thoughts
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A Few Edits and a Funeral
It’s an unfortunate truth that even the most well thought out plan is subject to the demands and restrictions of the real world. A few days ago I thought that all I had left to do was to create my cover art, create a .mobi format file, and submit my…
More Decisions to Make
Well, we’re almost there, just a few more pages to edit and I think I’ll be ready to begin the process of Kindlizing (is that even a word?) my eBook. I’ll start with Kindle because I imagine that by the time I have the format down for Kindle, it will…
Is that your final answer?
Being an analytical sort of guy, I decided to see exactly where I stood should I decide to publish my novel as a series instead of one volume. The results didn’t really surprise me, because of the way I developed the story. As you can see, Books 4, 5, and…
ISBNs and Other Things
While I was watching the Kindle Video Tutorial last night, one of the things that I wondered about was the ISBN (International Standard Book Number). All books have them, but is it really necessary for my eBook? To find out the answer I went to www.isbn.org, one of 60 agencies…
