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Emily the Librarian

Recently a librarian named Emily Mitchell passed away. She's right there in the center of the picture. For many years she was the librarian at the … Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on December 9, 2011 at 10:13am — No Comments

There's $$ in them thar hills: October Ebook update

I'm always looking for a clever title for these updates. If anyone has any clever titles please send one my way. I can't keep using Stephen King in my title! He'll come to my house and challenge me to a write off! I can't keep up with… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on November 17, 2011 at 9:46am — No Comments

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

A Decade of Dust

I apologize for the maudlin post but Dust has been out for ten years now. I launched the book on September 21st, 2001 in Saskatoon's Western Development Museum: 1910 Boomtown. It was the first time I'd launched in… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on September 29, 2011 at 10:17am — No Comments

Napping your way to Writing Fame

The cornerstone of all good writing is the nap.



Don't let those nap naysayers try to convince you that naps are for children. That somehow it is lazy and unnatural for you to nap. Don't allow them to make an outcast of you. They are only jealous of your… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on September 24, 2011 at 10:37am — No 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

Gorgeous German Steampunk Edition!

Well, yesterday I received the author's copies of the German version of The Hunchback Assignments (which is called Mission Clockwork: Attack on The British Empire--love that title). They're absolutely gorgeous. Please accept my apologies because I am about to gush with authorial… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on September 8, 2011 at 11:28am — 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

From 100% on a Short Story to Parade Captain!

This last weekend I had a highlight in my writing career: I was a parade captain in the Gull Lake Centennial parade. Gull Lake, SK, Canada is here:



It's the town where I graduated from high school in 1985 (I attended Tompkins school from K-9) and learned that heavy… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on August 8, 2011 at 2:03pm — No Comments

How I Didn't Sell 1 Million ebooks in 6 months: July Sales

Amazing new stupendous ebook developments this month!

Okay, maybe that's a bit of an overstatement, but I have discovered that "free" sells. Or at least it leads to numerous downloads. About the middle of June I made this book free on iBooks and Smashwords:



And now it's free on Kindle (just click the above image but… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on August 1, 2011 at 8:50am — No Comments

Eeek: Writing Doesn't Get Any Easier





I don't want this to be a depressing post but writing doesn't get any easier. I've just sent off the first "readable" draft of my seventeenth published novel (tentatively titled The Hunchback Assignments 4: The Island of Doom) and the whole process from beginning to end was no less painless than writing my first…

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Added by Arthur Slade on July 31, 2011 at 7:53pm — 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

Odd Questions Students Have Asked



I do a great number of school readings. And when I get to the end of my presentation I say, "Now it's time for the dreaded Q&A. You ask the questions and I'll attempt to answer, though I don't do mathematical questions." Often I get asked, "Where do you… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on June 7, 2011 at 9:04am — 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

How Star Wars Blew My Mind

On this day (May 25th) in 1977 Star Wars was released. At the time I was ten years old. I still have a very clear memory of convincing my father to take me and my three brothers and my mother off the ranch and cross country to Shaunavon, SK to see… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on May 25, 2011 at 1:48pm — No Comments

How my iPad made me a better iWriter

Well I've had my iPad for several months now (it's the iPad 1: 32 Gig wifi) and it has been a real help in the various aspects of my career. I should give you forewarning that I am a Mac geek (since 1984) but I'm sure you can trust my opinion anyway. : )



First and most importantly--Writing:…

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Added by Arthur Slade on May 23, 2011 at 12:07pm — 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

How to Sell a Gazillion eBooks (No Exaggeration, really)

Well, I'm reaching the last day of the 3rd month of my eBook experiment. Since mid-February I've released several of my out-of-print books and one selection of short stories as eBooks. Here they are below.…

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Added by Arthur Slade on April 30, 2011 at 1:22pm — No Comments

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