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Ebook Authors: The Kids Are Coming

One of the great opportunities ahead for ebook authors is the wave of new readers entering the digital book world. These gadget centric-readers are kids and young adults. You know the ones that don’t shy away from a computer screen or the digital world. With their cell phone or ipad in hand, they are going to drive the ebook industry to new heights in the near future.

This wave of new readers is going to create a new wave of authors. These writers are going to write directly to the ebook platform, bypassing the current paper to digital conversion process. […]

James Moushon2019-02-18T12:21:48+02:00April 4th, 2011|Categories: Features, Member Blog|

E-books vs Print: Is it time to turn the page?

What if my next page-turner doesn’t have any pages?

As I write this post I am up to my elbows in finalizing the formatting and interior lay-out for the print version of my new thriller Grave Undertakings (sequel to the acclaimed Asylum Lake). The entire frustrating process has me questioning the future of my titles in print. The far-less cumbersome e-book formatting has been done for some time and it begs the question: am I committing author suicide if my next page-turner doesn’t have any pages at all?

Don’t get me wrong, I love print books. I still haven’t invested […]

Rich Evans2017-03-24T09:17:15+02:00April 3rd, 2011|Categories: Features, Member Blog|

Write what YOU want to read…or watch.

In my youth, I was surrounded by books and movies (I even worked in a dollar theater for a time that showed second-run movies.), so I guess you could say that “stories” are what helped me grow up. Even when I was in college at the U.S. Naval Academy, I was a history major, primarily because the classes were like sitting through advanced story-time, at least in my opinion. I wrote the requisite papers for school, but it wasn’t until my graduate work that I really caught the writing bug.

I wrote a paper on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps […]

Matthew M. Frick2011-03-30T15:01:57+02:00March 30th, 2011|Categories: Features, Member Blog|Tags: Writing Tips|

eBook Authors: Use The POWER of Links

One of the first things an eBook Author must learn to use is the power of links. Whether you’re creating your ebook, setting up your web site, writing a blog or joining a group on the Internet, hyperlinks are what make things happen. The more clicks, the more chances of your success. The synergy created by links is a powerful thing.

With that said, where should you put links? The following is a list of possible opportunities for linking.

Your eBook Author Page

Let’s start with your ebook. You should always have an author page with links to everything in […]

James Moushon2019-02-18T12:22:05+02:00March 24th, 2011|Categories: Member Blog, Resources|Tags: Amazon News and Tips, Writing Tips|

Barry Eisler Turns Down $500K to Self-Publish

Fascinating discussion between Barry Eisler and JA Konrath at Konrath’s blog.

Barry: Here’s something that happened about a year ago. Anecdotal, but still telling, I think. My wife and daughter and I were sitting around the dinner table, talking about what kind of contract I would do next, and with what publisher. And my then eleven-year-old daughter said, “Daddy, why don’t you just self-publish?”

And I thought, wow, no one would have said something like that even a year ago. I mean, it used to be that self-publishing was what you did if you couldn’t get a traditional deal.

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Henry Baum2015-03-31T01:01:43+02:00March 21st, 2011|Categories: Member Blog|

Farr Point by Sam Havens

The smell of oil is in the air, and so is murder, when eighteen-year-old Eddie Tipton arrives in a small Texas town with his widowed mother in 1950. Eddie and his teacher mother take rooms in the home of Texas oil widow, Faye Ruth Collier. Eddie spends time with handyman Ned Cotton and soon learns that Mrs. Collier’s late husband was murdered a few years earlier. Ned Cotton warns Eddie to stay away from Faye Ruth and to ignore the murder of Lawrence Collier. Eddie, of course, cannot resist.

Making his way in a new school, dodging the stigma of […]

Sam Havens2011-03-20T09:48:17+02:00March 20th, 2011|Categories: Member Blog|

How to Talk to Famous People

HOW TO TALK TO FAMOUS PEOPLE AND MAKE YOUR GRANDMA LAUGH

A Randomly Organized Book About Life and Comedy

Through a collection of humorous and random observations, “How to Talk to Famous People” is ready to shatter your comfort zone. Get ready to embark on a journey that finally reorganizes your passions in the right direction. With a new book, Tommy Leonard is sneaking into the book world with a new fresh look at comedy. Check it out on amazon.com.

Tommy’s desire is to wake you up to your dreams, make you smile, and help you become socially less awkward. […]

Tommy Leonard2020-02-21T06:30:21+02:00March 19th, 2011|Categories: Member Blog|

The Challenges of Being a Newly-Published Author

So, I’ve written a book and had it published. How exciting! It seems as if new doors are opening and that I have embarked upon a new career. That is true, but the challenges have only just begun. Now, the task is to get the word out. Major TV networks aren’t exactly knocking at my door. Where do I begin?

These are the questions I had to ask myself after I published the highly-rated Misadventures of Sister Mary Olga Fortitude which I soon followed up with the first sequel, Babes in Bucksnort. I knew that I had good books […]