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I don’t know why I never got this done earlier, but the Search Inside feature got added to my book today on Amazon. I’ve always been a big advocate of this option, but honestly could never figure out how to do it myself.
I received February’s Kindle payment today. $86.45 total. February was my best month at the time, but was beaten out by March. April sales have already beat that too. But, let’s update my figures with today’s payment.
I remember coming across a blog post about this contest last year, and I thought about submitting something. But at the time, the deadline was fast approaching and I didn’t have a short story which I would describe as “Southern Gothic.” What is Southern Gothic you might ask?
I have to admit that Thomas Patrick’s book appealed to me because of its book cover. Don’t judge a book and all. The cover itself is not appealing as it appears to be a bad scan of an old sepia photograph or quite possibly a photo taken of a photograph in a frame since there seems to be a shiny glare just across the woman’s face. However, I have a huge respect for the sepia photographs of yesterday and have been known to buy them up when I see them in junk stores and antique places. Yes, I have an odd collection of pictures of complete strangers…your great great grandparents, perhaps? So the old lady in the long dress feeding the chickens out in the yard spoke to me and I knew I wanted to read this book.
I’m just a few days away from my next Kindle payment. This one will be for sales made in the month of February, totaling $86.45. Lulu is also reporting 2 book sales from the UK since I last updated, but it’ll be a while before I see that money since that’s only $1.34. The best news so far came last week when I noticed my Amazon sales rank went way up. I was hovering around 1.5 million, but I shot up to 180,000 just in a few days. Here’s the proof…
A Winter Journey by Billy Young
It’s amazing how little a good writer needs to create an interesting story. With a cast of colorful characters, We are led on this snowy journey to a surprising end.
I received an email today announcing Lulu’s new Studio Cover Wizard. Not bad, and I’ve had loads of fun playing with it today. It sure beats those drab cover templates they offered forever, and may still.
So, you’ve got a book on Lulu and you’re ready to go. You’re just about to sign up for their distribution package, have them assign an ISBN number and get your book on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. You’re almost an author, right? But wait… there’s a catch.
Do you know the picture of the little fish about to get eaten by the bigger fish, himself about to become dinner for a larger fish, and so on? Turn the fish into a variety of mutants and aliens held together by nanobots, and you have a pretty good starting point for reading Elysian Fields. Typically I try to give you a plot summary, a few quotes, and an idea of what you’re getting yourself into by reading the book I am reviewing. In this case I’m going to have to send you in without the wisdom of my council because there’s just way too much for me to try to make it make sense to you.
I fell in love with Mary Hellick on page one and nothing through the course of the book caused me to change my mind. Mary is a prickly teenager who is an outcast at her school. Shunned by most of the students who taunt her and generally make life hell for her, Mary tries to keep to herself and not draw any attention to herself, but sometimes strikes back. This means that Mary has regular sessions with the guidance counselor, Mr. Landa. Mary is your typical awkward, rebellious teenager, with one exception. Mary is also clairaudient, which means that she can hear the dead, and that tends to complicate her life.
C.V. reviews Chuggie and the Desecration of Stagwater by Brent Michael Kelley
Shannon reviews The Boston 395 by Jason Derr
Susan reviews Appraisal for Murder by Elaine Orr
C.V. reviews Hellwatch by Larime Taylor (February's 1st review)
Jaime reviews The Parrot's Perch by Karen Keilt
Susan reviews Dark Mind by Jennifer Chase
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