I am winding down my 30-day promotional campaign for my new book, The Depth of Beauty, on Kindle Scout. That’s the program where readers go to the KS website, sample the book and hopefully nominate it for publication by Kindle Press. Here’s my link: http://amzn.to/1ElzAQL The selection committee at Kindle Scout doesn’t spell out what you need to do in order to have your book pass muster with them. I assume you need a lot of nominations, even though I’m not sure what constitutes “a ... VIEW POST
DISCOVERING THAT ONE GREAT IDEA
Seven Concepts Writers Can Learn From Gold Prospectors In August I spent a weekend with cousins from Ohio who were visiting the wilds of Idaho near where I live. We took an afternoon to pan for gold above the resort town of Donnelly, which is part of the Boise National Forest. No, we didn’t stop at a tourist trap, where they salt the trough with pyrite and you get to take home a little pouch of “Fool’s Gold.” I’m talking the real deal. One of my cousins, an astute fifteen year-old, knows ... VIEW POST
Why Kindle Scout Makes Sense to Me …
...But Might Not Make Sense to You. Have you heard of the (relatively) new quasi-crowdshare program called Kindle Scout? I say “quasi” because it doesn’t involve donating money, but it is all about reader input. Kindle Scout launched last fall, but is apparently still so new that many of the Kindle customer service operators I spoke to recently hadn’t even heard of it! I did get my questions answered eventually, however, so I decided to put my latest novel, The Depth of Beauty, into the ... VIEW POST
Five Ways Novelists Are Just Like Poets
A very good friend from my years in northern California is the poet Lauren Scott. (lscotthoughts.com). We are both writers, but while she writes pieces with minimal words, I write full-length novels. Not much overlap, right? Wrong. The truth is, long-form writers and poets have quite a bit in common: We both love words. I mean love them. I know that even though she may write a first draft intuitively, Lauren considers every single word that goes into every single poem she writes. ... VIEW POST
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