Month: April 2014

Book Brief: The Impaler Legacy Omnibus

The Impaler Legacy OmnibusThe Impaler Legacy Omnibus
by Ioana Visan
Genre: Paranormal
Word count: 120,000 words

In a world crawling with vampires, Romania is the safest place left on earth. Thanks to the Little Council, there hasn’t been a vampire on Romanian ground in over five centuries, until one day when Liana Cantacuzino is ordered to bring one in, covertly.

Enter Maximilien Hess, a thousand-year-old vampire determined to ruin the existing order of things. When all is revealed, Hess’s secret changes everything, and a reluctant alliance is formed because the alternative is much worse.

The Impaler Legacy series is a vampire saga like no other.

This book is available at Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble. Continue reading “Book Brief: The Impaler Legacy Omnibus”

Navigating Google Play

googleplay booksGoogle Play is probably the most confusing book selling website I’ve ever encountered. Our RJ Crayton took some of the mystery out of it for us yesterday in this article. But there is so much to it that it’s impossible to cover it in one post.

The other day, I entered the information for eight books on Google Play. It seems like each time I go in, there’s something new and wondrous I discover needs to be done. This time, I noticed the “You need to add a sales territory” comment when I went to my dashboard. You will find your dashboard at https://play.google.com/books/publish/. Continue reading “Navigating Google Play”

Selling Yourself

Quentin BatesGuest Post
by Quentin Bates

How do you sell a book in the digital era? It’s a fraught question and if I had a sure-fire formula for authors to sell successfully, then I’d make a lot more marketing that than writing books of my own.

I came to this down the traditional route, via an agent (a small, energetic one) and a traditional publisher – until its recent takeover, one of the last of the old-school independent publishers with a long history. In fact, I can be proud of sharing a publisher with Bram Stoker, although he probably shifted a great many more books than I ever will. Continue reading “Selling Yourself”

Used Pixel Warehouse

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