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• How to Encourage Feedback from your Fans?

  January 6, 2010

  • Over the past year I have published three books with an online publisher with sales to date of over 200 books each. Now the next step in my writing career is to find out what works and what doesn't with this type of genre writing (erotic fantasy romance). But how does one find this out? Guess work? If this book sells so many copies and the other one doesn't sell as many, did the customer not like ...
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• Self-promotion when e-published

  October 2, 2009

  • With the release of my second book with an online publisher, the pressure is on to make more of my promotions. I've received my postcards as hand-outs for an upcoming conference and trade show I'm attending in the next couple months. I've created a newsletter to hand out at the conference with excerpts from my two published books and the synopsis for my third upcoming book. And I've put together ...
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• Submitting to an Existing Series

  August 26, 2009

  • Recently, I had an opportunity to submit to a pre-existing series of romance novels. The creators had put together a bible of worlds that anyone submitting could chose from and write about. You submitted the complete novel and waited for the acceptance. You submitted only the synopsis to the creators of the series so they could verify it fit. I did this last year. It was a great idea. It got me ...
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• inspiration from movies

  August 15, 2009

  • Have you ever watched a movie and felt humbled? I try my best to be creative, put in all the major and minor details, make my books the best read ever for a reader. But then I read/watch something else and feel so out of my league that I wonder why I do it. This afternoon I saw District 9. The first half of the movie I sat on the edge of my seat waiting for whatever horrible thing was going to ...
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