2009 was a great year for LLBR. We started off by adding Dan Marvin to our review team. We celebrated our one year anniversary. We changed the look and name of our blog. We broadened our short list to include a handful of other POD companies outside of Lulu. Then, we threw the short list out the window and opened ourselves up to all POD books! Oh yeah, and we reviewed 77 titles this year too, not counting Julie’s Quick Picks.
It is always wonderful when we hear of someone who has been reviewed on the LL Book Review having some success, either through sales or critical acclaim. Today it is Linda Welch’s turn.
While I lean more toward surfing GoodReads, Facebook, Twitter, and my fellow reviewer’s sites on a regular basis more than all the other Creative Writing sites that have popped up recently, WEBook is one that I did sign up for this year but haven’t taken full advantage of due to lack of time and interest. However, this site did launch an interesting program recently called Agent InBox.
About a year ago, I received an email from a college-going complete stranger on MySpace who had been recommended my first book, The Other Side of What, because a friend of his thought the storyline of the lead character sounded a bit too much like his own life. We corresponded very briefly, and while I was flattered, I hopefully convinced him that the book was not based on any events in his life because (1) I had never met this person and (2) We established I wrote the majority of the book before those certain events in his life had even taken place. I think he was disappointed.
CreateSpace, part of the Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) group of companies, today announced a new agreement with Lightning Source Inc., the print on-demand unit of Ingram Content Group Inc. The collaboration between the two companies will expand CreateSpace’s distribution options for its members beyond Amazon.com and CreateSpace eStores.
For those who might have missed it, best selling author John Grisham was on the Today show this morning to plug his new book, Ford County, but also had a thing or two to say about the recent web war with book pricing that’s been taking place amongst Amazon, Wal~Mart, B&N, and Target. He believes printed books are an endangered species and that the surge in popularity of EBooks isn’t helping.
By today, I should be over 21,000 words to be on track according to the NaNo Calendar. I hate to admit it, but I’m just over 14,000.
Cheryl Anne Gardner over at PodPeep recently posted about quality vs. quantity, and I totally agreed with her from the start. The word count target on the calendar just [...]
After a bit of debate about possibly adding another publisher to our short list this month, we all decided to just throw the short list out the window and open the LL Book Review to ALL self-published authors.
Well, it’s Day 5 of NaNoWriMo and I was off to a good start, but the calendar I posted in my Day 1 post is catching up with me as far as word count goes. I need to be at 8335 words by midnight tonight, and right now I’m about 1,000 short. I’ve yet to [...]
Did you sleep at all last night? After only passing out candy to about 16 trick ‘r’ treaters, rushing outside during the commercials in the Roseanne Halloween Marathon on Nick at Nite to take down Halloween decor so it didn’t go missing in the night, and making sure all the clocks were set back, I sat down at 12:01am this morning like many others across the country participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) this year and wrote the words: “Chapter 1.”
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