Category Archives: e-publishing

“Libby” is free for Kindle for the next five days . . .

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Kirsten

I’ve made my romance novel, “When Libby Met the Fairies,”  free again, Friday July 13 – Tuesday July 17. Click here to download your copy!

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New cover for Libby!

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Kirsten

I am so psyched!!!

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The overnight success of two successful indie authors

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Kirsten

Well, isn’t this something. Their “overnight success” is only “overnight” to those of us who haven’t slogged alongside them for the past decade or two. From a Guardian story on Amanda Hocking — who btw is now 27 years old: … Continue reading →

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I am editing. Loose Dog.

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Kirsten

So I’ve got this novel, you see. I love the concept. It’s a first person novel, narrated by a woman who is an animal control officer. And she’s got problems. Man problems, for starters. Her ex-fiance has shown back up … Continue reading →

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KDP Select. My experience so far.

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Kirsten

I’ll be honest. I initially bristled at the whole idea of KDP select: Don’t like the exclusivity clause. Don’t really see how that benefits Amazon, either. Just seems to me it’s their way of throwing their weight around. The $500,000 … Continue reading →

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Okay, this is it . . .

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Kirsten

New cover for Can Job. Next up: get it out in print form . . .  

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Covering my bases

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Kirsten

I know I’m not the only one. I started by trying to sell my novels the traditional route. Got some absolutely fantastic feedback from agents, but no takers. Wrote a couple more novels. Discovered Dean Wesley Smith and JA Konrath. … Continue reading →

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Free ebooks!!!

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Kirsten

It’s Freebie Friday over at Webbiegrrl’s Writings — and my novel Can Job is one of the featured books! Can Job is a comic novel of course. But if you’re into thrillers, you can also pick up free copies of … Continue reading →

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An Author’s Amazon Wish List

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Kirsten

Via the top-shelf blogger Passive Guy, here’s a top-shelf post by Mike Stackpole about Amazon and the book biz. One of the points Stackpole makes is that as an online/digitally savvy company, Amazon has real time access to data about … Continue reading →

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“When Libby . . .” A romance novel. Sort of.

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Kirsten

Like many of us writers, I’ve finished more than one novel — if by “finished” you mean there are files on my hard drive with lots of words in them. I’ve also done what “they” advise writers to do: after … Continue reading →

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