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Groundbreaking Kings of Serial Sean Platt and David W. Wright are Saying Thanks With Free Kindle Fire Giveaway! Authors Sean Platt and David W. Wright, of the post-apocalyptic serial “Yesterday’s Gone,” are saying thank you to their fans with a free Kindle Fire giveaway which starts this week. “The readers have been so supportive of [...] Read more »
Recently, a reader wrote a comment about our pricing which I need to address: “I am very disapointed (sic) that future individual episodes will be $2.99 each as opposed to $0.99. I can see paying $6.00 for the book via kindle, but $18.00 is WAY TOO MUCH for the six episode packages. Even Stephen King [...] Read more »
THE MIND-BENDING POST-APOCALYPTIC SERIALIZED THRILLER YESTERDAY’S GONE CONTINUES WITH EPISODE 9 On October 15, everyone in the world vanished. Well, almost everyone. Some were left behind, attempting to piece together what happened, find their loved ones, and survive. BUT THEY ARE NOT ALONE Episode 9 picks up after the WTF cliffhanger of Episode 8. Brent [...] Read more »
Do you like to be left hanging? Ever since I was a child, I’ve loved cliffhangers. My fascination began with a TV show called Cliffhangers, which ran for less than a season in the 70′s. The show featured three stories every week, one about a vampire, a mystery, and an Indiana Jones sorta adventure. Every [...] Read more »
In the summer of 2000, I had this genius REVOLUTIONARY idea… I would put a comic strip on the web! Nobody was doing it (or so I thought) and I’d make a name for myself. Hell, I’d be the next Bill Watterson! I loved comic strips. As a child, I used to get lost in [...] Read more »
The “freemium” model has driven the success of many an indie author. J.A. Konrath, Cory Doctorow, Scott Sigler, and many others have proven that readers are willing to pay for content even when the author gives it away. Whether giving away eBooks, or audio versions, or even in cases of piracy, free content can and [...] Read more »
Anybody that’s paying attention to the self-publishing scene can agree that there’s never been a better time to be a writer. From Amazon, Smashwords, and other outlets to social media, writers have never had so many tools at their disposal or an ability to find and cultivate their own readership. If you can write what [...] Read more »
Okay, I’ll bite. Chad Post at Publishing Perspective posted an interesting bit of link bait in a post claiming that cheap eBooks are destroying people’s minds. While the post doesn’t actually live up to its premise, it does provide some food for thought, essentially saying that cheap books are destroying traditional publishing. It [...] Read more »
So, you finished that book you’ve been working on forever? But, did you edit it? While Kindle and Createspace, along with other self-publishing options, have given indie authors a bit more respectability (in that they don’t have to hide their status in shame), that doesn’t mean you can overlook the importance of editing. If you [...] Read more »
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