That’s right, it’s Thrifty Thursday! And have we are cooking up some bargains for you! That’s right, here at Indies Unlimited each Thursday, we make it super easy for you to find hot free and 99 cent eBook deals. Make sure to tell your friends to come on over to Thrifty Thursday and check ’em out! Continue reading “Thrifty Thursday: Totally Sweet eBook Deals”
Month: June 2016
Which “Golden Eyes” Flash Fiction Story Gets Your Vote?
It’s that time again…time to choose your favorite flash fiction story of the week! It’s all up to you now – only one can win Flash Fiction Readers’ Choice Champion honors. It’s super easy – choose your favorite and cast your vote below.
Check out this week’s entries here. Make your decision, then use those share buttons at the bottom of the post to spread the word.
Voting polls close Thursday at 5 PM Pacific time. If the poll doesn’t close on time, any votes received after 5 pm will be removed.
Which "Golden Eyes" Flash Fiction Story Should Win the Readers' Choice Award This Week?
- Judith Garcia (30%, 6 Votes)
- Roseanne Frank (20%, 4 Votes)
- Lynn Sheridan (20%, 4 Votes)
- Dusty May Jane (15%, 3 Votes)
- Joe Wocoski (5%, 1 Votes)
- Dick C. Waters (5%, 1 Votes)
- Biswajit Mukhopadhyay (5%, 1 Votes)
- Jacob M. Drake (0%, 0 Votes)
- Luigi Silvestri (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 20
Loading ...NOTE: Entrants whose submissions exceed the 250 word limit will be disqualified even if they win. ONE VOTE PER PERSON, please. Duplicate votes will be deleted. The results displayed above are unofficial until verified by administration.
Voice-to-Text Dictation Software
Just how much progress have computer systems made in understanding the human voice? I don’t mean recognizing specific commands, like the hands-free Bluetooth in your car. I’m looking for a tool an author can use to write a book without typing. I want to know how well a computer can understand people when they just talk to it. And the answer is, “not very well.” Continue reading “Voice-to-Text Dictation Software”
Book Promoting:Is $1.99 The New 99 Cents?
We’re going to talk about selling eBooks. We can call it “connecting with readers” or “building our reader base” or “expanding our discoverability” in other articles. Right here, right now, we’re going to call it what it is: selling books.
I’ve been through the ups and downs of free promotions. I’ve had mega-successful returns where I’ve sold tens of thousands of books and I’ve had disappointing returns where I have not covered my promotion costs. I’ve sworn off free promotions and come back to them and realized that they can still be effective in terms of selling books. Again, we are not talking about climbing up the rankings in a genre-specific category or how many email subscribers we can gain or how many books we can give away. We’re dealing with book sales, and with free promotions we’re referring to peripheral sales of our other books or paid sales when our free book returns to its regular price. Continue reading “Book Promoting:Is $1.99 The New 99 Cents?”