Tag: amazon

  • Strange “ghost sales” on Amazon

    So, as regular readers may know, I’ve written software which checks all of my titles for salesrank on a daily basis, and lets me know when it goes up.  Typically, this means that there’s been a sale within the past few hours. The interesting thing is that over the past few days, I’ve seen several…

  • Cupid’s Armorer is no longer Amazon-exclusive!

    I’ve said it before, and I’ll say again: I don’t like permanent exclusives.  The three-month KDP exclusivity agreement on Cupid’s Armorer is now over, which means it’s now been released on Smashwords and All Romance Ebooks.  It’ll eventually be on Barnes & Noble, Kobo, etc as well. I’ve got an excerpt from it below, if…

  • Improved cover for “Cum In Me If You Want To Live”

    I managed to find an appropriate free font over on dafont.com, and I added a gradient fill background. Also used levels on her skin to darken and improve contrast, which left the layer with the red glow in her eyes really visible. Then I used a drop shadow around her body to take care of some…

  • “Cum in me if you want to live”

    I just had this thought for a sexy inverse Terminator movie.  I might have to do something related to that, in the same way that Progenitor is related to Species. Hearing a sexy Kristiana Loken lookalike uttering that line… yeah, that’s pretty hot. Cupid’s Armorer has been revised and extended. There’s a new opening prelude…

  • “She Only Wore a Shirt to the Funeral” FREE on Amazon now!

    “She Only Wore a Shirt to the Funeral” is finally FREE on Amazon.com! I don’t know whether it was the repeated price match requests which I and others have submitted, or my email to Amazon two weeks after we’d started requesting the price matches, but this story is now free on Amazon as I’d always…

  • Mostly for authors today…

    I have many different things to write about tonight. First, Disturbed is good music to listen to while doing your publicity stuff. Second, if you’re an author, you NEED to go see if you’re on http://www.manicreaders.com/.  I happened to see it when searching for my name, and it seems that they created a skeleton author page…

  • “She Only Wore a Shirt to the Funeral” coming to Amazon (eventually free)

    I had a discussion today with KDP Support, because I was under the impression that you’re not permitted to submit stories which are available elsewhere for free on Amazon.  My understanding was that books which later become free are ok, but that books which have always been free aren’t.  It turns out that this is…

  • End-of-month reminder for Kindle owners

    Just a reminder, folks: If you have Amazon Prime, you can “borrow” one eBook a month from the Amazon Kindle Lending Library.  Your ‘borrow’ for any given month is lost if you don’t use it before the 1st of the next month, and this is about to be February.  So, if you haven’t used your borrow…

  • “Winning the Genetic Lottery” published on Smashwords and Amazon!

    So, I’ve finished my latest eBook, “Winning the Genetic Lottery”.  It certainly wound up longer than I expected!  Back in December, I thought it was just going to be a quick concept short-story, but I wound up writing 34k words on it before I could really say that I’d explored the story arc as well…

  • Experiment with “Cupid’s Armorer”

    This post is pretty much just for the writers out there, as they’re always interested in statistics and what works and what doesn’t.  Please bear in mind that this post isn’t to whine about sales, but rather to share with other authors what approaches I’m trying in order to get a title to sell.  It’s…

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