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An Interview with Alec Hutson on Self-Publishing, Fantasy, and the Book Industry
The battle has been going on for years now: traditional publishing vs. self-publishing. For fantasy and sci-fi, romance and young adult, a million different options are available to those brave enough to try. And whether you decide to traditionally publish or self-publish, getting your book discovered is a problem. Amazon has weird algorithms. Goodreads has merciless…
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Promoting Your Book with BookBub: A Case Study
My first novel, Blest, was published last year in March. It wasn’t traditionally published, but it wasn’t traditionally self-published, either. I worked with Alloy Entertainment to outline and write the book. It’s been an interesting process, because we’re also working with the Powered by Amazon team. Powered by Amazon takes book marketing to a new level.…
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The Big Bad Discovery Problem: How Is Anyone Going to Find Your Book?
At #FutureBook16, a conference based in London, authors, agents, publishers, and others converged to discuss the future of the book. Or, really, the future of publishing. Spoiler: the industry doesn’t think it’s that bright. In his keynote, Tim Healy Hutchinson Hachette UK said that the book market is in “secular decline.” The entire industry is…
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Luxury Coops, Chapters 3 & 4
3.1 Pure Strength is more dungeon than gym: wet floors, murky puddles, tiny mushrooms, soggy ceilings. Manny washes his face and peers at the red rims of his eyes, seeing the the bright fuzz of his youth in Mexico City, buttercups of houses in favelas full of diesel and sun. He hears his daughter’s name.
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Blest is now available on Amazon!
I’m happy to announce that my book, Blest, is now available on Amazon. If you’re into young adult, fantasy, or romance, I’m sure you’ll love it. Blest is a novel about what defines us as people and whether we let the world define us or whether we get to define ourselves. When sixteen year-old Jim Blest…
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Luxury Coops, Chapter 2
Anna can barely contain her disgust as she waits for her Seamless delivery. The creepy guy’s gaze lingers even after he walks back into his smelly slaughterhouse. She tries not to imagine the daily pain and torment of the creatures behind the doors. She fantasizes that the man wakes up in a cage himself, stacked…
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Luxury Coops, Chapter 1
1.1 Everything knows what death looks like. Even chickens.
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3 Ways to Measure Your Book’s Online Marketing Campaign
When it comes to online marketing, independent authors like to think they’re ahead of the curve. Social savvy, internet savvy, and savvy in other miscellaneous ways. But just because you made a Facebook Page and have a Twitter account doesn’t mean that they’re helping sell your eBook. Online marketing is a mysterious mix of luck…
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