Blog Tour: The Literary Soundtrack interview

Interview with Gene and Adam I had a lot of fun doing this interview, with The Literary Soundtrack.  First, I love talking about music, as anyone who has been locked in a car with me and my iPod can attest to.  Second, Adam showed up to answer one of the questions. Stop by The Literary…

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Associated Content Review–IMMORTAL

Associated Content A new review posted this afternoon for Immortal… Immortal is a Sci-Fi/Fantasy adventure with a sense of humor. I was drawn into the story immediately by the author’s sense of historical irony, the moral yet flawed main character, and the fact that anything – literally – could happen next… (Full review here) —Mary…

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Promoting in a social media world

Leading horses to water Promoting a novel can be extremely challenging, and in ways that are different from promoting a website or a toy or a machine that goes *ping* at regular intervals.  Novels are subjectively enjoyable, frequently disappointing, and an unavoidable commitment. Nobody wants to get stuck reading a bad one, or worse, having…

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Immortal as eBook

The important news first You can now purchase Immortal as an eBook in any format your heart desires thanks to the folks over at Smashwords.  Go there now to buy your copy: Immortal eBook. EBook formatting is hell The book was actually “available” on Kindle at the beginning of November, for about half a day.…

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Immortal Review: Night Owl Paranormal

Night Owl Paranormal I have been terribly negligent when it comes to back-linking and promoting new reviews of Immortal.  Here is one, with more to follow. This is what good science fiction should be, believable yet fantastic…. See the full review here  

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In defense of Amazon

Outrage You have, I am sure, heard at least a portion of the story: Amazon.com allowed an e-book that instructed pedophiles on how to be better pedophiles (I’m guessing) to go on sale through their vast retail empire.  When the book was discovered– and I’m sort of interested in figuring out what search parameters led…

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International and electronic Immortal

Death of the “local” customer As I have discussed before, the e-book revolution sort of took me by surprise.  I still like paper books, but I’m coming to realize that every day I cling to them is another day for me to look like a guy on horseback on a freeway. And I’m still trying…

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Promoting Immortal

The month in summary It has been quite a good month for Immortal, the little novel that could, but only after six years of couldn’t.  On penalty of death, I can’t mention specific sales numbers, but if you count both the books bought through Amazon and from my personal supply… well, we did okay. And…

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Catching up

Picking up various bits of story here and there Blogging is a funny thing.  Sometimes a topic just hits you and you can’t wait to write it down.  Sometimes, you have nothing, and then the fact that you have nothing becomes a Thing, because you know you should blog if only to keep people from…

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Mary Sues and assholes

On the notion of the Mary Sue and the ubiquity of fan fiction I’m a fairly non-social writer, by which I mean when I’m working on something I’m alone with it until I’m reasonably certain it’s truly and actually done.  I have not historically taken advantage of writing groups or posted partials for comment, or…

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