Free Holiday Bonanza on Amazon!

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amazon_xmasHappy Holidays!

To celebrate the season and get 2013 off to a rousing start, I’m setting a slew of my titles on Amazon to “free” at different points over the next week and a half.

If you like crime fiction, fantasy, psychological suspense, and dark humor, you might just find a favorite in the list below. Please pass it on to friends and family!

Finding Emma | 12/25 – 12/27

one bad twelve | 12/25 – 12/27

Seven Into the Bleak | 12/25 – 12/27

Assassin | 12/26 – 12/28

The Sword of Kings | 12/28 – 12/30

Three the Hard Way | 12/29 – 12/31

Three of a Kind | 12/30 – 01/01

Three on a Match | 01/02 – 01/04

Happy reading and have a safe and joyful holiday!

Holiday Book Fair at Grounded Coffee, December 8

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For those of you in the greater Washington DC area, I’ll be participating in a groovy Holiday Book Fair at Grounded Coffee in the Kingstowne area of Alexandria, VA on December 8 from 2pm – 5pm.

Grounded owners Candy and Will Briffa, have a tradition of helping local writers, musicians, and artisans and are well known for an annual holiday craft bazaar, but this is the first Book Fair they’ve hosted. Come check out ten local authors whose writing spans a half-dozen genres and interests, from young adult to romance, horror to mystery.

The Fair is free and open to all visitors. Books by the authors will be available for purchase and signing, and there will be giveaway contests during the event. Parking is free and easily accessible from South Kings Highway and Telegraph Road.

Happy holidays! I hope to see you there!

Event Details
Date: Saturday, 8 December 2012
Time: 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Grounded Coffee, 6919 Telegraph Road , Alexandria , VA
http://groundedcoffeeshop.com/
(703) 341-6612

Participating Authors
Meredith Bond – Regency romance/horror
Amanda Brice – YA/romance
Karen Cantwell – chick lit mystery
Misha Crews – romance
Matt Iden – crime fiction/thriller
Lela Lane – paranormal
Kristing Levine – mid-grade/YA
Scott Meeks – green/eco issues for kids
Alan Orloff – mystery/horror
John Wren – mystery/true crime

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I’m today’s guest blogger on Wattpad!

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This is a man used to dealing with obsession.

Quick…what do James Bond, Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones have in common? I’ll tell you on Wattpad Insider…I’m today’s featured guest blogger!

In “Obsession With Evil,” I take a quick look at the fuel that drives the best bad guys we’ve got in books and movies. Swing by and give me and Wattpad your two cents!

http://blog.wattpad.com/post/36698284824/obsession-with-evil

Advertising Your Book on Goodreads: Thoughts, Numbers, Questions

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I’ve embarked on a number of low-cost, (hopefully) high-impact advertising ventures to boost my book sales. Over the next few days and weeks, I’ll examine what I’ve done and try to draw lessons and conclusions from the experience. First up…Goodreads!

Basics
Goodreads advertising currently comes in two flavors: tiny, highly-affordable self-service ads and large-scale page campaigns coming in at massive cost (when asked about “premium advertising offerings,” Goodreads replied that, unless my budget was over $5,000 per month, I was likely to be more interested in their self-service option. Well, no shit.).

For obvious reasons, I’ll only talk about my experiments with their self-service advertising.

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Caveat Writer

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Warning: Image link goes to fake Amazon page.

Successful paranormal author Ilona Andrews recently had her short story “Questing Beast”–offered free on her website for fans–swiped and re-posted to Amazon, where some unscrupulous magsman was selling it for $5.99. Since it reached a rank of 60,000, quite a few poor folks were rooked.

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