Okay. In the interest of fair play, I've decided to cede the floor (so to speak) to Random House. Here's a video, in which they explain what services they provide to their authors. Take it away, RH!
Well, that's simply awesome, and I don't doubt the complete sincerity of everyone who spoke on the video.
Ha ha ha ... I only wish. Well, not really. Things weren't perfect for Norma Jean. They only seemed perfect. And I don't want to be famous. I just want to make a living writing fiction. That's all.
Anyway, my point -- and there is one -- is that print books really do matter. This has become painfully obvious now.
I also wanted to tell you that Ben Sobieck also posted the most awesome review of RIPTIDE. And, as you can read in this post, I'm really hoping to hell I can publish this novel in print by the end of the month.
BTW, here's another post I wrote today. Isn't that awesome? Ha ha ha ...
PS: I'll overlook this horrible news for the moment, if you will, okay? Ha ha ha ... #iamfoolish
Seattle Police detective Grant Moreton’s murder
investigation leads to his long estranged younger sister, Paige. The siblings
were essentially orphaned as young children after their mother died and a car
crash left their father incapacitated. Thus, Grant has always felt responsible
for Paige, since the accident, and he mourns for his father, who lives in a
nursing home and with whom he can’t communicate.
However, what waits for Grant behind the doors of Paige’s
house is way more than he could have imagined. Not only does Paige seem
emaciated, beyond his expectations, but the house itself has a strange hold
over her. Paige has been working as a high class call girl for a select group
of clientele, but when they leave the house, they all seem possessed by a
spirit with an unknown agenda.
When Grant tries to help his sister, things turn ugly, due
to the strange force within the house. This force not only exerts a hold over
Paige, but won’t let Grant leave. So, Grant must figure out how to alert his
partner and solve the murders, while protecting his sister from something he doesn’t
understand or quite believe, but can’t deny.
In EERIE, the
brothers Blake and Jordan Crouch weave an old-fashioned ghost story, through a
suspense novel with characters harboring dysfunctional family secrets to make
it a cut above the usual horror tale. This book's thrilling storyline kept me
reading late into the night, but I couldn’t bear to look under the bed.
I'm really sorry to say that today's This post will consist of a link to a post from one of my other blogs, where I'm trying to prevent a horrible disaster help readers and authors make the right choices.
Hi there! :) I'm bitching some more blogging about dystonia again, because we only get a week to talk write about this. And since I can barely type, I need to use the Internet as effectively as possible with the minimum effort possible to reach as many people, etc., etc.
Well, it gets even weirder better. Yesterday, I posted this on another blog.
Yes, I was facing the prospect of telling authors and readers that Amazon was basically creating this Orwellian vision ...
And that they were being used to service and maintain that vision through their own participation. Yeah, try telling that to a bunch of desperate authors who are trying to climb Amazon's ranking system, as if that were the measure of success, and to readers who think the Kindle is the world's most awesome toy.
Also, this video really made my day. So many thanks to Chris Vosburg of World O' Crap for sharing.
PS: My husband is a saint. I've been blogging, and he just made me lunch and an espresso. Not only that, but he bought me new Crocs for our anniversary. What a surprise! :) And I didn't get or expect anything. Honest. I would feel like a shitheel, but I apply Frankl's theory and choose to feel lucky. See how easy it is to be a happy fool? :D
But I thought of the perfect (albeit, belated) gift in the shower. He says he always wants toys. So, I told him I'd get him a Kobo. Ha ha ha ha ...
Now, I realize that's a bit like a man buying his wife one of these ...
But we're married and it's our anniversary, which means I really am an idiot we get to share the profits, right?
This could be some serious shit, because (to quote the company press release):
Unlike competitive self-publishing tools [which we won't name], Kobo allows authors to set
their book price to “FREE” at any time without restrictive exclusive
agreements, in addition Kobo pays 10% higher royalties on sales in many
growing international markets and allows authors much more freedom on
pricing.
Hi there! :) First, I'm posting this early because my sister is coming to visit. Anyway, that's not the announcement.
I'd like to announce, per this post, that I'm working on a crowdsourcing project to aid the distribution of the print version of my
novels, as well as to help finance a new Renegade Press edition of my New York Times bestselling novel IDENTITY CRISIS. In addition, I'd like to find enough funders to publish a print edition of the next book in the Sam McRae mystery series.
I'm the author of the Sam McRae Mystery Series. The first novel IDENTITY CRISIS hit the New York Times ebook bestseller list in 2011. I'm also a Derringer Award nominee, with several short stories published. I'm an attorney, with degrees in journalism and library science. Furthermore, I'm a strong supporter of indie bookstores. For more details, check out my blog at http://debbimackwriter.wordpress.com. My Web site at http://www.debbimack.com is currently undergoing renovations.
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