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NEW Exercise your Vote on the Writing Exercise!

With the poll software debacle behind us and final “personnel adjustments” made in the IU engineering department, we are now prepared to begin voting for this week’s Writing Exercise extravaganza. You may review the entries HERE.

Don’t worry, we have adjusted the power settings on the poll from kill to stun. I’m pretty sure we got that right anyway. It was a little hard to come by volunteers after that first unfortunate incident.

Voting will close at 5 pm mountain time on Thursday January 12, 2012. The recipient with the most votes wins a feature post and publication at year end.

Select the best entry for the IU writing Exercise Competition: Timestream

  • #4 Pam Logan (46%, 13 Votes)
  • #2 Garrett Hise (18%, 5 Votes)
  • #1 William C. Busch (11%, 3 Votes)
  • #6 Linda Rae Blair (11%, 3 Votes)
  • #7 A. L. Kaplan (11%, 3 Votes)
  • #3 Elisavietta Ritchie (4%, 1 Votes)
  • #5 Charles Ray (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 28

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Sneak Peek: Jennifer Zane’s “Gnome on the Range”

Gnome on the RangerToday we get a sneak peek of author Jennifer Zane’s novel, Gnome on the Range:

Once you get the zing you can’t go back.

Jane West has everything a woman could want. A job in a small Montana town’s only adult store, two busy young boys and one dead husband. Everything except a little excitement–a little zing. But that changes one summer morning at a garage sale when her kids buy some garden gnomes.

Now someone wants those gnomes and will let nothing get in their way. Including Jane. This new excitement for Jane spells trouble for a relationship with new neighbor–and hot fireman–Ty Strickland. Can Jane and Ty handle a relationship meddling mother-in-law, crazy kids, and stay alive while trying to solve the mystery of the garden gnomes?

Gnome on the Range is now available on Amazon.com.

Continue reading “Sneak Peek: Jennifer Zane’s “Gnome on the Range””

Test Poll of Polling Software Poll*

The surviving members of our crack engineering team  (inspired to greatness by the gruesome spectacle of the IU “early retirement” plan) have been hard at work around the clock to solve the problem with the polling software.

Now we shall test this new poll-taking thingamabob and see what is what.

The last poll on polling made me feel:

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*Post title provided by the IU Department of Redundancy Department.

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Help us help you

by K.S. Brooks and Stephen Hise

We indie authors need all the help we can get to spread the word about our writing. We don’t have an army of agents and publicists at our disposal. We don’t have a big publishing house pushing our books onto the front shelves of every remaining brick and mortar store in the world.

Still, we don’t have to bear the burden alone – we have each other. We use social media to build networks and connections. We learn from each other and we teach each other. We help each other.

I established Indies Unlimited for the express purpose of helping indie authors. We provide a number of different types of features that can showcase you and your writing (e.g., interviews, guest posts, sneak-peeks, video book trailers, etc.). We also get a ton of page views here, and that number is trending consistently upward. The exposure you get here can be very beneficial to you.

You want help and Indies Unlimited wants to help you. This should be easy. Some people make it difficult. Below are some things that will facilitate that process – and keep us from wanting to kill you. Continue reading “Help us help you”