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Poking my head out of the bunker to pass the word that DAW is offering a giveaway of A SWORD NAMED TRUTH, the first in the RISE OF THE ALLIANCE series. (All written, just not scheduled yet!)

This is a pre-copyedit version, for anyone who wants to see it ahead of pub date in June, or who likes to compare drafts with the finished book!

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Today's riff is about the power, and the problems of word of mouth.

Especially for Indie writers, who have zero budget for publicity. And I talk about current reads, and why I'm reading them.

Harry Connolly posted this link for his upcoming book Circle of Enemies--though the trailer functions as an intro to all his books. It's amazingly professional--you wouldn't know that it had a budget of five grand instead of fifty grand. I also like the faint gleam of humor (unrelenting grim is a turnoff for me, though many viewers and readers ( Read more... )

Via burger_eater, writers need to be like rock stars.

I nearly fell off my chair laughing. (Warning, if you are offended by the usual suspects among four letter words, don't click.)

Okay, here's a Net question.

I just did a LiveJournal read a little while ago, while drinking my tea. As it happens, some of my reading list overlaps with someone I don't know--I'm not on their list or they on mine. But they'd obviously been doing a run just before me because I encountered three comments in a row, basically like this:

ONE:

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Elsewhere on BVC, Nancy Jane Moore talks hereM about a book called Fans, Friends, and Followers by Scott Kirsner.

Nancy Jane lists his main points, some of which I agree with, some I don't. Like, Sell merchandise. If I wanted to sell merchandise, I would be a store clerk. Just the thought of handling people's money and dealing with tax paperwork ( Read more... )