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Friday, April 12, 2013

Interview of Fireflies author P. S. Bartlett

This spring, as I count the days until April 16 when my middle grade book The Wide Awake Loons is published, GMTA Publishing has released Fireflies by P. S. Bartlett. 

P. S. Barlett’s …

It is not an easy job to find book publisher for your new creation. Once you find one, convincing him to publish your book is even more tasking. Book and magazine publishers spend a lot of their time buying a book copy. You may get your book published through stringers to save all these hassles. You may visit online in order to accelerate your publisher search.

Book publishers comprise one-sixth of the total…

I get a tingle when I'm scared. It's a flutter of electrons that spread up and down my arms. I've heard that it's a natural reaction, a fear response. My body is preparing for flight or fight. I wonder if that's true. I remember running from my room as a child, afraid something was chasing.

I don't get the same feeling when I'm startled by something else. I actually seek out the dark, silent, cold places where any bump or whisper can start the tingle. Nothing is as scary as the…

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=node%3D4&field-keywords=stephen+st+clair&x=20&y=21

YA/teen paranormal investigative novel series' first two releases Claxton Mansion and Five Falls Plantation now out in Kindle and paperback at Amazon.

Hoping for reviews!

Thanks

 I just put together a Facebook fan page for Author Neil D. Ostroff. http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Facebook-Page-of-Author-Neil-D-Ostroff/124794694205967?sk=info

I sent out a bunch of notices through social marketing and guess what? I already have almost 2,000 likes. The internet is just amazing! Anyway, I’ve got everything in place for my winter marketing blitz. I’ve got programmers and search engine specialist listing my book sites, I’ve…

It’s done! I’ve just put money into promotion. A pretty good chunk, actually. I’m starting with Kindle Nation Daily site. I’ve done some research and heard a lot of positive things about this site and what it can do for your sales. They even have a statistics page that shows you all the books whose ranking went down after placing ads. I signed up for two campaigns. One, the bigger one, won’t start until March, which is fine because hopefully there’ll be many more Kindle owners by then. The…

My brother sent me an article the other day that inspired me beyond belief. I’ll attach it at the end of this post. Basically, it’s the story of a self-published success. I know, I know, I’ve read a thousand of them, also. But this one struck me different, mainly because this author did everything I have done to market and promote with one exception. She used the pay promotion on her sites and I have not. See, I’ve been mistakenly foolish with my numbers. I was putting book sales in…

Been doing the interview thing a lot lately and I think it’s starting to pay off. Not only does my name come up more often in search engines but I’m noticing visits to my blog and website are increasing. Of course, this could also be the result of my article experiment, which I’m waiting for the final stats. Speaking of my Author’s Den website, I recently signed on with GoDaddy to build a website myself that I can update, and let me tell you, it’s not nearly as easy as they claim. I spent…

Do you know if you write a page a day that within one year you will have written a book? How many times have I heard that one? If that one book takes a year to write then the revision process would have to take many years. Truth is, writing a first draft is the easy part. I can usually belt one out in a few months. But the revision; forgetta’bout it. That’s the time consuming stuff, though I am getting better at it as I get older (and hopefully wiser). I’m also getting better as a writer.…

Hit 6,000 words today on my new novel. It's an easy and exciting write because anything can happen in a world that isn't real. I see the book getting a little deep in the philosophical area once the characters begin to realize the nature of their existences and how it all could just disappear. We'll see where the story takes me. Right now, I'm still developing characters and relationships and setting the scene for a wild ride through the possible and impossible.

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As some of you know I started a new book a few days ago. The title is IMAGINATION and it’s the wildest concept I’ve had yet. Here’s the preliminary tagline: (What if everything around us, our friends, our surroundings, the universe, what if all we experience is just a figment of someone’s imagination? And what if that someone is dying?) I’m very excited about this one as I’ve been thinking about this possibility for a long time. The book will be written in the style of one of my earlier…

Okay, well… here it is. The $55 article written for me. Now,

the next step is the company will send this to three hundred article submission

services, and people, and companies looking for content. My Blog address and

Author’s Den address will be attached to the article so readers can connect

with me. I reset my site stats to zero and will closely monitor that over the

next ten days (the run I was promised). I average about twenty-five bio hits a

day on my AD site and…

It’s raining today. Drops slide down my window like translucent

snails. Water puddles in the street. Worms

tunnel up from drowning liquid and sprawl across the sidewalk. And here I sit

in front of my computer belting out another novel. I forget who said it, but I

remember a quote that summed up the writing life completely. The quote went

simply; being a writer is like having homework every day for the rest of your

life. And that’s true for the serious, passionate…

I just did something that I’ve never done before. Something

I ignorantly hoped to avoid but always knew would happen. I just paid hard

earned dough to promote my books. Well, not my books individually, but my blog

and author’s site. I signed up for two marketing ideas that I believe may

actually work. I also have a third PR person in line to do search engine

optimization. Who would have thought being a writer and selling books could get

so complicated. The first site…

Happy Thanksgiving to all! That said, I have to tell you

that since I’m in the service industry, I work every Thanksgiving. So today,

black Friday, is my day to celebrate. Oh it’ll be a hoot. Got the family coming

over, got friends of the kids stopping by, got lots of food and drink. By the

time most of you read this I’m going to be knee-deep in overindulgence. But for

now, I must write. This post is only the beginning of about two hours I’ve set

aside this morning to…

Got a new book coming out next

week and I must say it’s a great feeling. Not because I finished another book,

but because I finished a book that I started writing in 1997. As I slowly weed

through more than two decades of manuscripts, there’s a certain joy that comes

each time one is finally declared “finished”. Even as I re-read the manuscript

for the thousandth time, I could still picture myself fourteen years ago,

sitting upstairs in my sweltering bedroom pumping…

I applaud Kindle and the new digital revolution for allowing

me to publish and sell my books. I’ve spent the better part of the last twenty

years writing non-stop and have accrued quite a collection. Like a diligent

author, I market and promote heavily online, but have yet to hire an actual

publicity person (that will come in time). That said, I just got my monthly

royalty statement from Kindle Direct Publishing. Now, the amount won’t allow me

to quit my job and move…

I’m sitting on the dock this morning, my fishing rod baited

with a shrimp and hoping to catch some lunch when a strange thought occurred to

me. Fishing and becoming a successful author are similar activities. Except

when you’re fishing, you use bait to catch stuff and when you’re a writer you

use your books to try and catch something, that something being an agent,

publisher, or audience. The analogy expounds even further. With fishing, the

quality of bait is directly…