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The pond is a muse that saved my sanity.
Originally posted on Renae Rude – The Paranormalist:
This week’s WordPress photo challenge theme is “muse”. To me, a muse is anything that inspires me to do or to feel or to be. For the purposes of this postaweek, I decided to gather up some photographs of the pond behind our apartment building. These shots are each taken from…
FOLLOW THE TOUR: It’s Milele Safari by Jan Hawke
Originally posted on Bette A. Stevens, Maine Author:
Author Jan Hawke is on tour with her novel Milele Safari and she’s stopped by to tell us a bit about her book today. Hawke has included a fascinating excerpt from her novel as well. Welcome to 4writersandreaders, Jan. The page is yours and we’re looking forward…
Self Publishing – The Errors of My Ways…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Like many budding authors I felt on top of the world when I completed my first book. The euphoria was quickly replaced by the stark realisation that no one was willing to publish or promote my work. It took me over six years to finish…
My 2 cents on the Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count blah blah
Originally posted on 3D Game Textures:
First off we can choose not to sell on Amazon. We can sell on Amazon and choose not to participate in their programs. And I feel that getting paid per page is fair because I work hard to write full length novels and invest money in beta readers, artists,…
EVERY AUTHOR NEEDS TO GET AWAY FROM EVIL KINDLE UNLIMITED! (Except for me)
Originally posted on ARMAND ROSAMILIA:
My, us authors are an impatient lot. Over and over. With the new change in Kindle Unlimited, I’ve seen some horrific comments on Facebook about how Amazon is going to kill their sales, and they aren’t author-friendly, and blah blah blah… Amazon is a business. They are in the business…
How Much Will Amazon Pay for Kindle Pages Read?
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
Background image from ShutterStock. KINDLE UNLIMITED PAGES READ How much will KDP Select authors earn for KU/KOLL pages read? According to Amazon, nearly 1.9 billion (1,900,000,000) Kindle Edition Normalized Pages (KENP) were read during June, 2015 through Amazon Prime and Kindle Unlimited. If the same number of pages are read during…
Gender Bias in Publishing: What Can Readers Do?
Originally posted on readers+writers journal:
4 Ways Readers Can Promote Equality via Nicole Froio at Book Riot Publishing house And Other Stories has vowed to only publish female authors for a year after The Guardian‘s Kamila Shamsie challenged publishers to address gender bias in the literary world. Along with Shamsie’s provocative words was the shocking (yet predictable)…
FREE creative writing ebook
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
From today until Sunday July 5th BACK TO CREATIVE WRITING SCHOOL is free to download from Amazon. Thirty exercises to set your imagination free and it won’t cost you a penny. Here are some recent reviews: Nothing like the dry martini of some other instructionals but more the literary…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 