Member Blog | Self-Publishing Review

Beating them off with a Schtick

I’ve written a book with a schtick.

If I tell you that when I first drafted my collection of Christmas-themed horror shorts they were as a gift for my wife, who loves the holidays like no doe-eyed child ever did, and that I genuinely wanted to explore the notion of ‘giving’ creatively, while reveling in a mythology that is all too rarely untouched by serious genre writers, precisely because the associated tinsel-trimmed gimmickry makes them seem corny or hackneyed: you still won’t care. If I tell you these things they will only ring as excuses: as the book enters the […]

Damien Kelly2011-09-01T12:27:24+02:00September 1st, 2011|Categories: Features, Member Blog|Tags: Book Promotion Articles|

The Perils of a Self-Publishing Author

Self-publishing isn’t exactly the newest game in town for me; I’ve already self-published two ebooks. However, this time it’s personal, and I just gambled everything I have on a talent and a genre.

Previously, I’ve written two free ebooks, which I use to promote Octane, my business. One is a beginner’s guide to social media (which is in need of an update), while the other is a guide to using WordPress for businesses.

So I’m not exactly the debutant self-publisher, and I have enjoyed reasonable success with the aforementioned ebooks. So what’s new? Now I’m writing science fiction and I […]

Wayne Smallman2014-05-06T10:23:18+02:00August 25th, 2011|Categories: Member Blog|

Author Interview: Amy Miles

1. How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?

I chose to self-publish my new teen romance book, Defiance Rising, because I wanted control over my book. I wanted to use my talented sister-in-law to create my book cover as well as be able to control the price at which my book could be downloaded. I did contact a few agents throughout the previous year, and a couple showed some interest in my book, but it wasn’t the “in thing” at the moment. So I decided to devote the time and effort into myself, instead […]

Amy Miles2014-05-06T10:20:29+02:00August 25th, 2011|Categories: Interviews, Member Blog|

Author Interview: Nicholas Andrews

The Adventure Tournament

by Nicholas Andrews

Available at Amazon.com

Ebook coming soon!

Personalized Copies: www.facebook.com/NicholasRAndrews

With the kingdom of Bolognia under attack by independent forces of random malcontents, it’s time to send out the army to deal with these troublemakers, right? No, first there’s money to be made! Send out the adventurers, those rogues who wander the countryside in search of fame and treasure, and take up all the good seats at the local pubs. Then, organize brackets, stage it for the public’s entertainment, offer a prize and call it The Adventure Tournament.

Remy Fairwyn is a ne’er-do-well academic who […]

Nicholas Andrews2011-08-22T12:38:48+02:00August 22nd, 2011|Categories: Interviews, Member Blog|

So! You Want To Be A Writer?

This blog is inspired by Alan Rinzler, Zoe Winters, David Kazzie, JA Konrath, and Dean Wesley Smith. Because everything I ever learned about being a writer – a person who makes money writing – I learned from these individuals. So, if in the next five minutes you read something that you don’t believe, they are the ones to blame.

Do you know how to write? I’m not kidding. One day I was reading the autobiography of a bus stop mate. He had self-published the saga of his journey from gang member to solid citizen. The thesis of his book was […]

Emily Hill2011-08-22T12:32:16+02:00August 22nd, 2011|Categories: Features, Member Blog|

Hello SPR from Renvyle Blake

Dear Reader, I am newly self-published, and like many of you I suspect, keen to get my work to a wider audience. My book, ‘The Himalayan Assignment’ is now available and there are details at www.renvyleblake.com. I will leave the plug at that!

I did try to get published, but not very hard. I guess I had a fairly standard number of rejections, all of the very unhelpful “good luck elsewhere” pro forma type. One agency lost my manuscript twice, and several never replied. I looked carefully at the Thriller genre in the traditional bookshops and I was amazed […]

renvyle blake2020-02-21T06:12:58+02:00August 22nd, 2011|Categories: Member Blog|

New Book on Kindle: What Happened to KayLee, Tears of a Child

Press Release

KayCee Antonee gets electric chair in new book: “What Happened to Kaylee, The Tears of a Child.”
San Francisco, August 18, 2011: CDMbooks@aol.com announced the much awaited release of new Amazon.com EBook that blows the lid off of what happened to baby Kaylee Mary Antonee in Carol Denise Mitchell’s: What Happened to Kaylee, The Tears of a Child.

On July 5, 2011, KayCee Mary Antonee, aka “Hot Mom,” was acquitted of murdering her 2 ½ year-old daughter, Kaylee Mary Antonee. The shocking “not guilty” verdict seen all over the world sent viewers on a whirlwind of conjecture. And […]

Carol Mitchell2017-03-24T07:36:46+02:00August 19th, 2011|Categories: Member Blog|

Interview with Jason Holmes on the e-book “Sample Letters on Debt and Credit”

I have written an e-book “Sample Letters on Debt and Credit” in collaboration with Peter Samuels, my friend and a Debt Samaritan in DebtConsolidationCare Community. I have been associated with DebtCC Community for past 6 years. Apart from participating in DebtCC forums, I also like to share whatever knowledge I have by writing financial articles for DebtCC and have also contributed in several community websites. I feel very happy to help anyone in getting rid of debt problems or to solve their financial crises on their own.

Here are the answers of the interview questions about me and […]

Jason Holmes2011-07-15T12:29:27+02:00July 15th, 2011|Categories: Interviews, Member Blog|