I met K8 through BiblioCrunch. But I got to know her more through the Twitter #indiechat BiblioCrunch hosts every Tuesday night. One Tuesday, she asked for interviewee volunteers at the start of #indiechat. I put up my hand tout de suite. For two weeks, beginning last week, K8 aka Froze8 of froze8.blogspot.com is publishing daily…
Category: Marketing
Events, activities, and news related to marketing my books.
Book Launch of Concussion Is Brain Injury
Organizing a book launch is not a feat for one person. There’s finding the venue – how large, how accessible is it, how easy to get to and park at are all questions to be considered; there’s the menu – simple and minimal is best as people are there for the book – I chose…
Read An E-Book Week Is Here And So Are Hot Deals On My E-Books!
March 4 to 10 is Read An E-Book Week! To celebrate, Smashwords is running a promotion all week, and I’m pleased to announce that I’ve enrolled all my ebooks in it. To participate as a reader, all you have to do is go to Smashwords, choose any or all of my ebooks, enter the appropriate…
New Gift for New Subscribers — Free!
It’s been awhile since Lifeliner came out, and I thought it was well past time to update the gift I send those who subscribe to my website using the form in the right sidebar. I pondered what to give for a few weeks. I wanted to give something unique and attractive, something I hadn’t done…
Announcement: Now Affiliated with Iguana Books
I’m pleased to announce that I’m now affiliated with Iguana Books and that they will be working with me on my next two novels. Writing is not so solitary! Greg Ioannou has been my editor since the day I walked into his Colborne Communications office with my in-progress manuscript for Lifeliner. This was in 1999,…
A NaNo Sale to Remember
As you know, I’m a novelling Wrimo, one of over two-hundred-thousand people around planet Earth writing 50,000-word novels in the month of November as part of National Novel Writing Month. It’s my third time. In honour of my third NaNoWriMo, I’m putting the ebook and Kindle versions of my highly rated and very first NaNoWriMo…
Formal Launch of SHE
She is the classic tale of betrayal and friendship – with an evil entity thrown into the mix. Akaesman is that evil entity. And a young Toronto songwriter is his latest prey. Akaesman violently invades her and tries to make her into his image forever. Her career dies. Her name is gone. And then as…
She in First Chapter Plus E-Catalogue
My novel She is listed in First Chapter Plus for September. First Chapter Plus is an e-catalogue that provides convenient links to the first chapters and Amazon pages of creative and cutting edge books. They write: “Just as film previews help you decide whether to pay to watch a movie, each month our e-catalog will…
Journalists vs. Book Writers on Twitter
Journalists and writers are similar, right? After all, journalism is a specialised form of writing. Well, if you go by Twitter, I’d say they’re different, quite different. Though there are exceptions, generally speaking journalists on Twitter get it, book writers do not. Journalists get that it’s a great way to talk to their readers, to…