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Letter from Ray Bradbury (Pay it Forward)

One of the concepts in life is the whole idea of "paying it forward." In other words if someone helped you get into the position you are at in life today, then instead of paying them back you should pay it forward to the next generation. This happens a lot in writing. If I had to write up a thank you list it would be endless: my parents, teachers, other writers & fans who have dropped me notes of encouragement.…



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Added by Arthur Slade on April 29, 2011 at 5:11pm — No Comments

Worldwide eRelease of TRIBES





Today I'm releasing the ebook of my novel TRIBES worldwide (except Canada*). It will be the fifth ebook of my backlist that I've released so far. To recap here are the others:…

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Added by Arthur Slade on April 15, 2011 at 9:10am — No Comments

Contest Winners

About every three to four months I send out a somewhat glib and perhaps funny newsletter about the "goings on" in my career. 



And I always, always have a contest where I give away stuff (because there should be some payoff for reading my newsletter). My… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on April 14, 2011 at 4:28pm — 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:

Cover of Drang 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

How to write and lose weight and make millions (update)

Tempo Fitness 611T
Way back a long, long time (and twenty… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on April 6, 2011 at 9:56am — 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

Ebook Update

Well, I've sold 200,000 copies of my ebooks in the last two months. That's a so-so start but I'll have to live with it. Oh, wait, what's that you're saying? It's April 1st? You're right! How about I tell you the real amount.



Sorry, I couldn't resist.



So, as many of you know, I've been dabbling in the ebook world. I started on Feb 5th (with the release of DUST) and so far I've converted 4 books to the various formats… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on April 1, 2011 at 10:42am — No Comments

Worldwide eRelease of The Haunting of Drang Island

Cover of Drang



Today is the official re-release of my second novel The Haunting of Drang Island. All three books in the Northern Frights series have been out of print for several years now, so I'm glad to see the second book in the series rise like...uh...like a giant serpent out of the water. It's the story of a teen going on a holiday on Drang Island (near… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on March 31, 2011 at 9:56am — No Comments

Draugr is a 2.99 NookBook


Draugr is now available on B&N as a Nookbook. Wow, that really cooks like a wookie cooking cookies!
Art

Added by Arthur Slade on March 23, 2011 at 11:30am — No Comments

Interview with Katie Davis about her Brain Burps app!

Today, in my ever-ongoing quest to try and figure out how this whole interweb thing works, I'm going to interview Katie Davis, author/illustrator extraordinaire. She is the author of Who Hops, I Hate To Go To Bed, Kindergarten Rocks, and the middle grade novel The Curse of Addy McMahon. More importantly, she has an app! Brain Burps About… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on March 23, 2011 at 9:45am — No Comments

Shades on iBooks (a poem)

Dear mighty iBooks

Thank you for giving Shades, my book, a look

As an Apple fanboy

This has produced in me

Plenty of joyous joy

Oh, frabjous happiness

Oh, iPadded deliriousness

May the sales be blessed

May the downloads outlast the reign

Of Ozymandias.



Notice how I add that deep literary stuff at the end?



Yep, Shades, my… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on March 16, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

Dungeons and Dragons and why I became a writer...

I blame my grade 4 teacher for turning me into a writer. His name was Mr. Fitzgerald and he came to our small town of Tompkins right out of Education. He was only there a year, but in that year he did two things that changed my life forever. The first was he read The Hobbit to us. That book blew my mind! I was amazed by the dwarves and spiders and, of course, Bilbo himself. Wow, this book didn't have the Hardy Boys in it! It had swords! I remember staring at the cover for… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on March 15, 2011 at 9:28am — No Comments

.99 cent books and the apocalypse (of publishing!)

.99 cent eBooks will destroy publishing!

.99 cent eBooks will save writers!

.99 cent eBooks are the 4th horsemen of the apocalypse!

.99 cent eBooks will save the Toronto Maple Leafs (or fill in your favourite sports team here _______)!

Okay, I don't know which (or if any) of these statements is true. The more I dig into the world of ePublishing the more arguments I hear for and against…

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Added by Arthur Slade on March 14, 2011 at 6:55pm — No Comments

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