For years I’ve been investigating how to get published, and how to market once it happened. It occurred to me recently that while I’ve been figuring it out, I never passed that information on. I have friends who can help me spread the word, but they don’t know how. This post is to address that. If […]
I hand-sold two copies of my book today. I haven’t received any money from my online sales yet, so it’s the first money I’ve had in hand from the books I’ve worked so long and hard writing. Probably I should have saved the money–I’m darn near broke and I need to get my car through
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This post was prompted by a discussion of self-publishing–taking the “easy way”–that I stumbled across in my internet wanderings. Rather than beat people over the head with my opinions, I left a brief comment there (no, I don’t remember where exactly–I actually started this post during NaNo and only now rediscovered it) and came back
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I’m getting search hits from people (presumably owners of shiny bookmarks! Go here and learn how to get one of your very own!) looking for “Knight Errant by KD Sarge.” And it occurs to me that the marketing plan has info on the book Absolutely Nowhere Searchable until December 1st, the release date. Oops. That’s
Regular blogging, KD. Regular blogging is how you keep readers reading. Meh. Sorry! I’ve been chasing fascinating things like epublishing tips and Joomla! expertise (so. much. fun.) and proper sizes and resolutions and file types and…aahh! I really ought to write it all down so next time isn’t so difficult. Now there’s an idea for
I’ve been thinking about it a while, so in my usual head-long fashion I announced on Twitter without thinking it through. But anyway. To celebrate my figuring out my domain email (don’t snicker, now, it’s rude) I’m doing a bookmark giveaway. Use the “Contact” link in the menu up there, and send me your address.
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It turns up in the oddest places. I think I mentioned running into the point where I needed a scene to fill out my ms and I couldn’t get it to work. I didn’t see what was so hard! I had decided since they were on a ‘hostile’ planet, something at some point should attack