Good riddance, 2023. To paraphrase "True Grit", "the love of decency does not abide in you ( Read more... )

Titling chapters, instead of numbering them, has mostly gone away in fiction, but it's still a thing in non-fiction. The only novel I put chapter titles in was The No-Campfire Girls, and I had great fun doing it. But that was self-published; I'm not sure I'd try it with an agent/publisher hunt.

(We don't literally hunt agents and publishers, by ( Read more... )

 More Slightly Off the Mark: Why I Hate Cats, and Other Lies, was featured May 7 (today as I write this) on Bargain Booksy. It's a newsletter where you can find bargain books, see? (Oh, now I get it.) Their website is here:

https://www.bargainbooksy.com

You may not get their newsletter, but the price is still a buck ninety-nine for the e-book, ( Read more... )

Well, this is embarrassing: I'd meant to post this before the blog I put up on the same subject back on 12/2. It's been sitting in my draft folder ever since More Slightly Off the Mark was originally released earlier this year; from a promotion standpoint, the book seems to have been cursed.

But I'm still putting this out here, for three reasons ( Read more... )

 I know all of you have thought to yourself, "What makes for a good advertisement? How do those people get me to buy their stuff?"

I dunno.

But I did write my own ad for our most recent published book, and sent it out into the cold, cruel world, where for all I know it's being read by someone in a secret bunker in North Korea even as we speak. It ( Read more... )

NaNoWriMo update: 35,000 words into the new novel!

Just an update on our newest book, More Slightly Off the Mark: We had to make some changes, and that screwed up formatting, and things happened, pandemic, yadayada ... anyway, it's back up for sale in print and e-book. If you ordered a copy direct from us, there will be a slight delay in ( Read more... )

There's still time to comment on the 50 Authors from 50 States blog and get a chance to win a free copy of one of my two latest books:

https://annettesnyder.blogspot.com/2020/04/talented-author-mark-hunter-shares-his.html: "There I was, a sulky, introverted teenager, nursing my frostbite injuries, stuck without enough books as the Blizzard of ( Read more... )

 It's my turn to share! I'm up for Indiana on 50 Authors From 50 States:

https://annettesnyder.blogspot.com/2020/04/talented-author-mark-hunter-shares-his.html

Anyone who comments on Annette's blog post will be put in the hat for a drawing, in which one of our two newest books will be given away: Coming Attractions, or More Slightly Off the Mark ( Read more... )

A free sample of More Slightly Off the Mark: Why I Hate Cats, and Other Lies:

https://mailchi.mp/ff8ffdfa2652/in-which-we-give-free-samples-and-dog-photos?e=2b1e842057

The latest newsletter is out, in which I talk only a little about the coronavirus, and you still get your image of the faithful Beowulf, who’s very photogenic.

And-a free ( Read more... )

Okay, so I already revealed the cover to More Slightly Off the Mark once, but this time we really, really mean it. We thought the original was a little imbalanced, so Emily added a newspaper nameplate, or banner, or ... whatever it's called. That brought us to this:

(Do I yell "ta da!" now?)


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