Tag Archives: Smashwords

On losing work (and other frustrations)

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

I spent several hours on Monday doing revisions of Island of Glass: addressing critique comments, filling holes, researching some things I’d left out. It felt really good to have a nice block of time for serious writing again, after all … Continue reading →

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Marketing demands muscle out the writing — yet again. Oh, and Iceland too.

Posted on January 28, 2013 by

I have two group promos coming up again very soon (I will make the official announcements when the time comes). While I really need another push for my sales, which have been in free fall this month, the organization is … Continue reading →

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Finally branching out: Kobo and Pubit

Posted on December 9, 2012 by

This week, I finally got a big item off my to-do list: I set up accounts for myself on Kobo’s Writing Life and Barnes and Noble’s Pubit platforms and uploaded my first two books on each site. But while B&N … Continue reading →

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Ebook Madness: Preparing “Yseult” for Kindle

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

Yseult has now passed review and is available on Amazon as an ebook. It took me a lot longer than expected, but in the next few weeks I want to try and get a couple of collections of my previously … Continue reading →

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Smashwords and Nanowrimo

Posted on November 2, 2011 by

I’ve mentioned any number of times goals of “getting this or that up on Smashwords.” I haven’t followed through on very many of those goals, but today I got my first Paypal payment from Smashwords! It wasn’t much, barely enough … Continue reading →

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Determining my Target Audience (John Locke and the Rest of Us, Part 2)

Posted on October 12, 2011 by

You can read my initial thoughts on John Locke’s e-marketing ideas here. In this post, I’m going to attempt to define a target audience in the way Locke suggests in his book, How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in in … Continue reading →

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