Tag Archives: marketing

#ROW80 Update and Sunday Mashup

My goals this week were to get the book launched, survive getting the book launched, and to not babysit my stats. We’ll call that a 2 out of 3. While I haven’t been as bad about it as I was … Continue reading

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All About You on TweetDeck

I<3 Tweetdeck. I couldn’t manage on Twitter without it. This post is going to be about how/why I use it and a specific column to add, but to get the basics out of the way, TweetDeck is a desktop application … Continue reading

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Writing to a Niche

So again this morning I find myself clicking from an Etsy newsletter to an article, and in that article finding so much that seems to pertain to us indie authors. I should probably have some kind of Etsyish Publishing category … Continue reading

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Running At An Artificial Pace

At the top of the email it reads, “To: Susan” These emails I get from Holly Lisle, I so often wish that I could find them and link you to them, because they’re so often very wise. And, of course … Continue reading

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Hush Money: 6 Months and 10,000 copies

I’m a real boy! As I begin this post, a few days before it will go live, days before Hush Money turns six months old, I’m still looking at the number on my spreadsheet. Marveling at it. Recording the numbers … Continue reading

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#ROW80 and Thoughts on Blogging

So life here is slowly returning to what passes for normal. Last week wasn’t terribly productive as I had a lot of catching up to do in a lot of areas and needed a lot of staring dumbly at the … Continue reading

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The Next Level? What’s an indie to do?

Today I feel like my brain is going to break. Like, moreso than usual. It all seems pretty straightforward when you start. For the beginning stuff, information is pretty abundant. Write a book. Well, okay, I’ve read a lot about … Continue reading

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2010 in review: The story of Hush Money

So I need to do the look back at the year thing. I’ve kind of been waiting to see what the end of the year numbers were. When the month rolled over, it seemed like I lost some PubIt sales. … Continue reading

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Karma points, what should I spend them on?

Ever have points from some promotion or other, and get really uptight over actually spending them? Because you need to find just the perfect, best thing, because it takes a lot of time to save up this many points, and … Continue reading

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Giveaway: Kindle Kisses of Day of Sacrifice

Today I have 5 copies of the Kindle edition of Day of Sacrifice by Stacey Wallace Benefiel, the author of the Zellie Wells trilogy that starts with Glimpse. Note: Although this is the Kindle edition, it is DRM-free, and so … Continue reading

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