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Posts tagged 'smashwords'

E-book Pricing – the Adventurer Returns

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

I miss coming here and just writing about what’s on my mind. Between meeting my Tuesday Split Worlds serial deadline and my Friday Flash deadline every week, posts just from me to you, with no fictional characters to be seen, have been woefully sparse lately. Seems to me that’s what Sundays should be for. Something [...]

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Adventures in e-book pricing

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

As some of you know, I released my first e-anthology of short stories, From Dark Places, a couple of months ago on Smashwords. I got a wonderfully spooky cover made with the help of my best friend, I studied the Smashwords publishing guide to the letter, set the price at $4.95 and I actually sold [...]

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Announcing a grand, crazy and ambitious plan!

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

I’ve been a bit swamped by real life lately, and not the nice parts of it, so I’ve been a little quiet for the past three weeks or so. Before I forget, as part of “Read an E-book Week” my anthology “From Dark Places” is available from Smashwords with a 26% discount until March 13th. [...]

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I made this!

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Ta-dah! There it is: my first short story anthology, available for sale at Smashwords. Did any of you use to watch the X-Files? I was deeply in love with Fox Mulder for far too long, and watched it without fail. Ah, those were the days before a zillion TV channels and hundreds of chances to [...]

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Secret no more…

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a secret project. I’d like to say that it was secret because I wanted to create an air of mystery, a subtle build up to some grand announcement. But I can’t – at least, not if I want to maintain a modicum of integrity. No, [...]

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