Sometimes you have to let go of your old ideas and search for new ones.
Category: Vampire Road
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I’m participating in the Amazon KDP Select program because I think there’s money to be made.
Robert J. Sawyer wouldn’t think much of my indie-published Vampire Novel if he knew it existed.
All the great success stories on Amazon–from Amanda Hocking to John Locke–have one thing in common: multiple books.
John Locke writes in his book, How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in Five Months, that the fastest way to get a bad review is to have a reader review your work who is not from your target audience.
What do zombies and the New York Times Book Review have in common? Until recently, I’d have said absolutely nothing. Why would one of the most prestigious book reviews in the English speaking world start talking about zombies?
But zombies are about war. Whether it’s a first person shooter game, or the Walking Dead, zombies are getting mowed down with machine guns, beaten with clubs and shot with arrows.
Promoting a novel through give-aways is a great idea, and with e-books it’s relatively inexpensive, but I learned a lesson recently.
I like being on panels, so when I got an e-mail from the SF convention Polaris looking for volunteer panelists, I took a look through the line up to see if anything fit my areas of expertise.
Blame it on sleep deprivation, new technology or simply a bad click, but it seems I launched a Google ad campaign for Vampire Road last week.