Day: November 8, 2012

Emma Meade Announces New Release

under the desert moonAuthor Emma Meade is pleased to announce the release of her new paranormal novel: Under the Desert Moon.

Seventeen-year-old Erin Harris spends her time daydreaming, hoping to escape her small town life in Copperfield, Arizona. When a movie crew arrives unexpectedly to shoot a vampire film over the summer, Erin’s small town world changes forever. Erin is positive she has seen the star, James Linkin before in a thirty year old TV show. He hasn’t aged a day. How is this possible? Erin is determined to find out, but how will James handle the scrutiny of an all too intelligent teenage girl?

“This was a fantastic read, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to read a new vampire novel where the relationship is just a tad more believable, and the vampire is likewise.” – Author Miranda Stork

Under the Desert Moon was published by by Soul Fire Press and became available during September 2012 from Amazon US, Amazon UK, and Barnes and Noble.

Featured Author: Morgan Nyberg

Author Morgan Nyberg

Morgan Nyberg was born in Port Arthur, Ontario and grew up in farming country in southern British Columbia. After graduating from the University of British Columbia he worked as a labourer for a decade before finally settling into teaching. For most of the last 30 years he has lived abroad, teaching English as a Foreign Language in Ecuador, Portugal and the Sultanate of Oman. His first book, The Crazy Horse Suite, a verse play, was performed on the stage in New York and was broadcast on CBC Radio. His memoir, Mark, won the CBC Literary Competition. His first venture into book-length fiction, a children’s novel, Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army, won Canada’s prestigious Governor General’s Award for Literature. Since then he has added a further children’s novel, Bad Day in Gladland, and three novels for adults, El Dorado Shuffle, Mr. Millennium, and Since Tomorrow. He currently lives on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Continue reading “Featured Author: Morgan Nyberg”

Introducing BookScather

Indie authors sweat bullets over getting reviews and worrying about bad reviews. It turns out we’ve been going about this all wrong.

Studies show that bad reviews on books by unknown authors actually result in a spike in sales. Who can argue with studies?

Add to this the number of indie author elites bemoaning the state of indie writing. Now look at Amazon and its scorched-earth policy on obliterating suspect favorable reviews while ignoring suspect bad reviews. Amazon is in the process of eliminating ALL author to author reviews.

It’s going to be all right, folks. Even in these trying times, one man has the vision and courage to come to the rescue of the indie community—and that man is me. Continue reading “Introducing BookScather”

Future of Ink Top 10 Self-Publishing Blog Contest

Ellen Britt and Denise Wakeman have announced their inaugural contest to find the Top 10 Best Self-Publishing Blogs. On their blog, The Future of Ink, they write:

“We need your help to find the ‘best of the best’ blogs specifically for online entrepreneurs who are looking for information about self-publishing. To that end we’re launching a contest and invite you to nominate your favorite blog for self-publishers.”

To be eligible, a blog must be nominated by multiple people. Nominations are open until  November 16, 2012.

Entrants will be evaluated based on:

1) the quality of their content;

2) the frequency of their posts;

3) reader involvement; and,

4) their blog’s ranking.

If you’d like to nominate Indies Unlimited (and we would appreciate that) you can do so in the comment thread on the Future of Ink Blog. Winners will be announced in mid December.