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May.07.2012
My short story collection, Kiss Shot, is now with my editor. Whew! If you follow the blog regularly, I had originally planned to have the book ready last Christmas. Two of the stories needed more extensive work than I thought and since I am self-publishing Kiss Shot as an eBook, I decided to...
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May.07.2012
Thursday night was the ceremony for the 2012 Townsend Prize for Fiction at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Remain In Light did not win. The honor went to Thomas Mullen for his novel The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers. And while I'm disappointed, I'm still thrilled that my second novel was a...
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Jan.15.2012
The big news I've been wanting to share for a couple of weeks can now be shared: Remain In Light is one of the 10 finalists for the prestigious 2012 Townsend Prize for Fiction.
Previous winners of the prize include Alice Walker, Ha Jin, Kathryn Stockett, Judson Mitcham, Terry Kay, Philip Lee...
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Jan.09.2012
The trade paperback of my mystery/suspense novel, Remain In Light, is now available in paperback from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Powell's will have it soon. If the novel is not on the shelves of your favorite local bookstore (fewer and fewer small press books are these days), then please ask...
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Oct.30.2011
Thanks to author site Red Room, I have an article on the trend of "reverse windowing" eBooks at Huffington Post! Reverse windowing is a new strategy where publishers are releasing the eBook version ahead of print, which is what happened with my novel, Remain In Light. I also interviewed the self-...
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Oct.28.2011
When Vanilla Heart Publishing announced it was going to release my mystery/suspense novel, Remain In Light, as an eBook in October and wait until January to release the trade paperback, it made me pause.
VHP had published my debut, Conquering Venus, in print and eBook on the same day back in 2009...
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Oct.28.2011
Among the files I rescued from my 20-year-old word processor (now in recycling heaven) were four short stories written in the mid to late 90s. I had submitted one of the stories, How Fanny Got Her House, to literary magazines back in the day with no success. Now that self-publishing eBooks is...
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Oct.21.2011
I decided to try a Facebook advertising campaign for a week to help promote the eBook release of Remain In Light. To be honest, I've only clicked on (maybe) three Facebook ads ever, but obviously it's working for some folks.
The ad (pictured) linked directly to the Amazon Kindle Store page for...
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Oct.15.2011
Red Room featured Remain In Light on its homepage yesterday and added the book to its What to Read Next column. Woot!
Many thanks to the folks who have given the book shout outs on their blogs including Kelli Russell Agodon, January O'Neil, Malcolm Campbell, Ben Tanzer and Jameson Currier at Queer...
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Oct.08.2011
Remain In Light is selling steadily at Amazon and Smashwords and reviews are starting to come in. The best so far is by Jason Pettus at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography.
Great as a standalone book, or even better as part two of a grander whole, this is the rare sequel that...
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Oct.02.2011
Thanks to everyone who has purchased the eBook of Remain In Light. I haven't seen any numbers yet from Vanilla Heart, but judging from the Amazon ranking (which is very hard to judge) there were quite a few sales yesterday. After you read it, please consider leaving a review at Amazon or...
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Oct.01.2011
Happy October, everyone! This is the official publication day for the eBook version of my mystery/suspense novel, Remain In Light. The eBook is just $4.99. Here's a list of retailers who have Remain In Light available for download now:
Amazon Kindle Store
Amazon UK Kindle Store
Smashwords (...
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Sep.24.2011
Vanilla Heart will publish the eBook version of Remain In Light on Saturday, Oct. 1, at Amazon, Smashwords and more. I'll have a complete list of eBook retailers carrying the novel on the day of release. I've been busy as hell working on publicity, so we'll see how my efforts pay off in October...
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Sep.10.2011
The ebook version of Remain In Light is scheduled for the first week of October! The novel will be available at Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, Smashwords and other ebook outlets. The trade paperback is still planned for January. Stay tuned for more details from Vanilla Heart Publishing...
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Aug.23.2011
Slow To Burn lives again thanks to Seven Kitchens Press! My 2006 chapbook (originally published by MetroMania Press) has been reissued in a limited edition of 125 copies as part of Seven Kitchen's ReBound Series. The chapbook is only $7. Click here to order your copy today. You can read the poem...
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About Collin
Collin Kelley is the author of the mystery/suspense novels Conquering Venus and Remain in Light, which was a finalist for the 2012 Townsend Prize for Fiction, both published by Vanilla Heart Publishing. He is also the author of the poetry collections After...
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