Celebrating Independent Authors
How to be a Full-Time Writer, by Kristen James
Friend and author Kristen James contacted me with some exciting news about her latest release:
“Hi Stephen, I wanted to share my new release with you, called How to Be A Full Time Writer. I thought some of your fans might find it useful if they’re interested in using writing to earn money outside of writing fiction, or even with ghostwriting fiction. It’s how I created my work from home job.”
Today we’re pleased to announce the winner of the second weekly “Writing Exercise with a Twist” here at Indies Unlimited.
The winning entry is rewarded with a special feature here today (the pure prestige alone of which cannot even be measured in monetary terms – really), and a place in our collection of winners which will be published as an e-book at year end.
Unfortunately there were some voting irregularities addressed here. After adjusting accordingly, the seven entrants received a total of 44 votes, and claiming nearly 70% of those, the winner is: Contestant #6– Dave Antrobus.
Thank you to everyone who participated – excellent entries! Now, without further ado, (trumpet flourish) here’s the winning entry by David Antrobus: Continue reading “Week #3 W.E. Contest Winner – David Antrobus”
If you look at the poll data, you will see that Garrett Hise (my oldest son, a blogger and writer in his own right) won by a very large margin. However, I reviewed the actual voting records to determine whether there were any irregularities. Unfortunately, there were. The predominate amount of his votes came from the same IP address (someone voting by Verizon Wireless) just a few minutes apart.
Neither he nor I know who this might have been, and I hesitate to call it malicious. It may be that whoever was doing this was simply applying American Idol voting rules. Either way, I realize I may have been remiss in expressly pointing out that only one vote per person is allowed.
By virtue of the adjustment, David Antrobus is this week’s winner. I have contacted both David and Garrett to let them know what happened. David’s OFFICIAL recognition will occur tomorrow as per usual.
In the mean time, I have made adjustments to the vote capturing elements of the software program so this does not happen again. We will also clearly post that only one vote per person is allowed. This ain’t Chicago.
I apologize for any confusion caused by this.
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There must be something in the water. An increasing number of otherwise thoroughly respectable indie authors are engaging in e-book giveaways. We at Indies Unlimited are willing to step up and do our part to spread the bounty.
This is the way it will work:
Each Thursday, we will put up a post like this one, calling for anyone who has a book to give away for FREE to put the book title, author name, a one sentence blurb, and link to download the book in the comment section. The book must be free to anyone who clicks over to the link – not just Price Club members or whatever. Continue reading “Announcing Freebie Friday Frenzy!”