Arthur Slade's Blog Posts Tagged 'arthur' (11)

Outselling Stephen King: the September eBook results

Well a few posts ago I told you how I miraculously sold more books than Stephen King (in a 48 hour period)!

Well, now I can report…

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Added by Arthur Slade on October 3, 2011 at 1:29pm — 5 Comments

How I Sold More Copies Than Stephen King (for 48 hours)

We interrupt regularly scheduled blogging for an ebook update. To my surprise and delight my epubbed novel

has shot up the Kindle charts in the US and UK and is outselling Stephen King. Yes, that Stephen King!…

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Added by Arthur Slade on September 9, 2011 at 12:13pm — No Comments

Faith: The cornerstone of writing

You must have faith.

That's the conclusion I've come to after all these years of writing. The cornerstone of becoming a writer and continuing on in this odd field is faith. By that I don't mean religious faith, but a personal faith. You must believe in…

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Added by Arthur Slade on August 24, 2011 at 11:57am — No Comments

1000 eBooks Sold but 0 Big Macs

Light a cigar! Open a fizzy drink! Eat some chocolate! Have an organic carrot! My first ebook went on sale February 4th, 2011:

Since then I've added 5 more:…

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Added by Arthur Slade on August 14, 2011 at 12:37pm — No Comments

Jolted: Measuring Success using Bookscan, Amazon, and NovelRank

If you're an author you've probably checked your Amazon rankings once or twice. Or every three seconds. And, perhaps you've stared at the rankings like you're trying to read your future in pig entrails. The great thing about the "modern" era is now there are even more ways to track things. Most of the time they're just charts that you stare at and learn nothing (and perhaps a little depressing) but I was recently able to track a "success" story to do with the my novel Jolted.…

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Added by Arthur Slade on June 23, 2011 at 6:57pm — No Comments

Hunchback Assignments win Grand Prize de l'Imaginaire 2011

I'm extremely pleased to announce that The Hunchback Assignments has won Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2011: Roman jeunesse étranger (The Grand Prize of the Imagination, Youth foreign). This is the most prestigious fantastical fiction award in France and it is proof that my novel's… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on June 12, 2011 at 12:42pm — No Comments

Ebook Experiment update

Well, I have all my ebooks up online now. Here are the fancy covers (with clickable links, of course):…

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Added by Arthur Slade on June 1, 2011 at 12:44pm — No Comments

Howl for the wolfman! The release of The Loki Wolf is today!

Today is the official worldwide--no galaxy-wide--wait, I mean, universe-wide release of the ebook for The Loki Wolf, the third novel in the Northern Frights series. It's a happy little Christmas werewolf story (because really… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on May 17, 2011 at 8:47am — No Comments

The Haunting of Drang Island on iBooks

Please don't let the cover scare you. I apologize if it causes you to recoil in fear. I just want to let you know that the book is now available on iBooks all across the world:

Just click here for the links to download it to your iPod or iPad (and if you have an iPad2 I don't want to hear about how great it is, okay? Some of us are completely happy with our first… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on April 7, 2011 at 9:10am — No Comments

Dust breaks into the top 100 on Amazon eKids list

I don't usually update my blog twice a day, but something extremely interesting happened today on the ebook front. Just after I finished my last blog I noticed that my ebook

had sold three copies. I thought great! Social networking actually works! Then at lunch time it had sold 10 copies on Amazon. Considering it had only sold 14 copies all last month, I thought this was a perfect start… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on April 1, 2011 at 7:41pm — No Comments