Month: August 2014

Featured Services: ReadingDeals.com

Reading Deals logoSetting your book free or reducing your book’s price isn’t enough. With so many books running promos every day, you need to promote the promotion.

This is where ReadingDeals.com comes in. We promote your free and bargain books to our list of readers who have chosen which genres they want to receive. This reduces the noise, and readers gets books they want, giving your book a better chances to stand out!

We are investing in advertising to grow our readership base to help authors like you to get the maximum number of downloads or sales from your promotion. We are using many outlets including paid advertising, social media, our own networks, and more to grow to become one of the top places to promote your book.

We currently offer two advertising options for authors. The first is the free option. You can submit your book and on the day of the promotion, we will consider your book among all of the other books submitted to us for the day. This is not guaranteed, but is a great option for those authors on a very tight budget.

Our other option is the low-cost Guaranteed Submission option. For a small fee, we will guarantee that your book will be featured that day. This is perfect for the authors who don’t want to roll the dice, and want the maximum promotion for their books.

We know we’re not the only site for you to promote your book, but we are going to work hard to connect with readers and grow our reader list. Join us on this journey, and make ReadingDeals.com one of your book promotion options when you set your book for free or lower the price to grow your own list of readers!

Reading Deals is brought to you by the team at BookMarketingTools.com, home of the free Ultimate Author Checklist, The Author Hangout podcast, and great tools for authors to help them to promote their books and get more readers. Reading Deals is another one of these great tools.

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Copyrights: Obtaining Permission (or not)

clipartSince making the decision just over a year ago to leave my small publisher and re-release my books under my own imprint, I’ve learned quite a lot about copyrights, both my own and those of other writers, musicians, photographers, etc. For example, just because it’s free doesn’t mean you can use it  Along those same lines, as discussed in my post Copyrights and Copywrongs, fair use may not always apply.

With this new knowledge in hand, I had to make some changes not only in my previous books, but also in one of my current works in progress. I wanted to use a quote from Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet, just a couple of lines, but wanted to make sure I followed the rules and obtained the appropriate permissions. I started by searching the Library of Congress database, but soon found that to be of little help. Gibran’s works have been published in so many places under so many formats, I was unable to pin down a copyright holder with any certainty. Continue reading “Copyrights: Obtaining Permission (or not)”

Video Trailer: Fantasies Are Murder

fantasies are murder tj perkinsKim & Kelly’s parents take them to Shadow Manor for a murder mystery weekend. What starts out as fun turns horribly wrong as a real murder takes place. With their sights set on solving the case, Kim and Kelly place themselves in real danger. The closer they get to revealing the truth the closer they get to becoming the next victims. With only three days to solve the murder, the girls play a deadly game of cat and mouse – but who will get the cheese?

Fantasies Are Murder, the young adult mystery by TJ Perkins, is available at Amazon.com and Amazon UK.

Don’t forget, you can cast your vote for trailer of the month on August 30, 2014 at 1 p.m. Pacific time.

It’s Party Time, Print Book-Style!

PBP2Oh yeah! It is party time – print book party style. Time to celebrate the printed word here at the Indies Unlimited Print Book Party.

Let’s help readers discover some fine indie writing at reasonable prices.

If you have a print book available from a major online retailer at $15 or less, follow the instructions below and post your link. If you see one you like, click over and buy it. This feature is for print editions only priced at fifteen dollars and under.

When possible, we replace some of the links with clickable book cover images. Do not attempt to insert an image in comments on your own. Just put the following information in the comment section:

1. Book title and price

2. Author name

3. A short one sentence book description (keep it tweetable in length.)

4. One link to purchase the book (only secure retail sites – Amazon or B&N.)

Then let your friends and fans know your book is available here today. Use the share buttons below, or copy the link in the address bar above and share the news on your favorite social media platforms. The more, the merrier, right? So let’s give it a try, shall we? Please make sure to follow the RULES above. Now, go ahead and tell the world about your cheap read.

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