Historical and Contemporary Romance Author
By now, if you have been paying any attention whatsoever to the Internet, you will have learned that Ellora’s Cave author Judy Mays has been “outed” by local news outlet WNEP as a high school English teacher. Apparently, a few parents in the community are not happy to discover that she writes “those kind” of books and are bringing a…
Over the past few days, I’ve noticed a lot of hand-wringing over the 99-cent book. Yesterday, both the Huffington Post and Nathan Bransford waxed eloquent on the problems with the 99 cent price point. Bransford was, in my opinon, considerably closer to the mark than the HuffPo’s writer when it comes to explicating the long-term implications of the 99-cent price…
Despite the fact that I’m published primarily in digital form (only one of my books has ever been released in print), I’ve always considered myself someone who preferred paper books to digital. I have a particular preference (or so I thought) for mass-market paperbacks, not so much because they are cheap (although that weighs into the equation), but because they…
I know I’ve been talking a lot about the self-publishing revolution on the blog lately, but it really seems to be the hot topic in writer circles and I think it OUGHT to be one in reader circles as well. Why should READERS care? The answer is that readers should care MORE than authors because they are being saddled with…
I stayed up in my room this morning instead of attending workshops here at RT11 to write my novella, but instead, I’m writing this blog post because as I’ve been watching the happenings at this week’s conference and overhearing conversations, I’m seeing a phenomenon that’s giving me increasing cause for concern. To wit, it seems a lot of agents are…
At 6:00 PDT, Grace Under Fire hit the top 100 in Erotica on Amazon. I am truly amazed, ecstatic, and humbled. If you bought a copy through any retailer, thank you very much. If you haven’t bought a copy yet but plan to…well, what are you waiting for ;). Again, thank you. It’s readers who make a writer’s day. And…
And no, I don’t mean April Fool’s Day–although it is that, too. But no matter: I’m not pulling your leg when I say that Grace Under Fire is available today. I feel like I’ve been waiting forever to say that and now, at long last, I can! So, in honor of the occasion, I was over at Selena Blake’s blog…
With the advent of Amanda Hocking and other authors’ successes in selling oodles and oodles of digital books on Amazon at the low, low price of 99 cents, there’s come to be a sort of common wisdom that pricing your book at 99 cents is the most reliable road to (almost) instant success and bestsellerdom. Of course, there are plenty…
I looked at the calendar this morning and, to my shock, realized it’s just 14 days until the release of Grace Under Fire. I’ve had a year to ramp up to this, but somehow, impending releases always manage to take me by surprise. Anyway, in honor of the two-week pre-release milestone, I hereby bring you 14 sentences of historical, menage-y…