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charles-davis's picture
Oct.12.2012
 Amazon recently notified me of a new function rating me and my books according to sales.   It turns out that my author rank hovers around the 300,000 mark overall, 100,000 in Literature & Fiction, 70,000 in Health, Fitness & Dieting, which I would guess covers the walking guides...
terry-odell's picture
May.24.2012
A reminder: My NOOK con­test is still going strong. Don’t miss out on a chance to win a NOOK Sim­ple Touch. To enter, all you have to do is fol­low the blog and sign up for my newslet­ter. More details at my main blog, Terry's Place. Recently, after lis­ten­ing to the...
terry-odell's picture
May.03.2012
First – I’m still work­ing on blog fea­tures for my new site. Con­sider this a ‘soft open­ing’ as I learn my way around, with the help of a very patient designer. It’s amaz­ing how much periph­eral stuff there is to do, too … chang­ing blog links, and often that...
brenda-webster's picture
Feb.20.2012
The day before Valentine's Day I got a call that my book was ranking second on Amazon. That seemed impossible but when I looked, there it was. Then I noticed that Amazon had chosen it for their Daily Deal to sell at .99. I wondered what that meant in terms of sales. Amazon is difficult to untangle...
jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Feb.01.2012
Whenever I heard authors complaining about their Amazon rankings, I thought wow, I want problems like those. Yeah, mean. But I didn't get it. How can you rank your self esteem on the whim of sales? I took my words back big time this week when I uploaded my ebook to Amazon. I was enjoying...
midge-raymond's picture
Apr.21.2011
I’m delighted to be a guest today at Word Love by Randy Susan Meyers — a fantastic blog about writing and all aspects of the writing life. In addition to hosting this terrific blog, Randy is the internationally bestselling author of The Murderer’s Daughters; visit her web site to learn more and to...
midge-raymond's picture
Apr.21.2011
I’m delighted to be a guest today at Word Love by Randy Susan Meyers — a fantastic blog about writing and all aspects of the writing life. In addition to hosting this terrific blog, Randy is the internationally bestselling author of The Murderer’s Daughters; visit her web site to learn more and to...
ivory-madison's picture
Apr.22.2009
This morning I found this photo of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez giving United States President Barack Obama a copy of Huntress: Year One, on http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/. For those of you not in the comic book world, Heidi MacDonald is the comics czarina of Publishers Weekly and...
caroline-rance's picture
Apr.15.2009
Tomorrow is the day. My début novel will be released and I will finally be able to prove to the world that I am not an unemployable waster. Well, actually, I am, but at least I managed to write a book at the same time.Publication day has long been a date to focus on; a distant point up to which I...
gina-collia-suzuki's picture
Jan.22.2009
Every day I receive countless emails from people claiming that they can make me a bestselling author... for a fee, of course. Services offered range from the provision of 'top secret tips' (which, presumably, the other five million writers paying the cash will receive), to seminars that are...