I’m curious–okay just downright nosy–but I got to wondering about readers’ buying habits with the advent of digital books. Has it changed? How much as it changed.
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Where, what and in what format do you buy
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The new tally and what’s planned for 2012
Friday, December 30th, 2011So today I crunched the numbers on the free downloads of ALL’S FAIR IN LOVE & SEDUCTION, and so far as of 10-29-2011, I can tell you there have been 173,289 downloads from Amazon, B&N, iBookstore and Sony. My ultimate goal as I’ve stated in prior posts is 250,000–that’s also when I’ll celebrate by giving away a Kindle Fire. Do I believe it’s attainable goal? Absolutely, or I wouldn’t have put it out there. Do I think it’s an easy goal to achieve? Nope, but then nothing and I repeat nothing about being a successful author is. And since I’ve always been a pretty ambitious person, I’m striving to be as successful as I possibly can.
Kindle Select – What do readers think?
Friday, December 9th, 2011Amazon is offering self-published authors the option of entering their books in the Kindle Select Program. So here’s my question for readers, would you pay $79/yr for an Amazon Prime Membership which offers the following benefits:
1. Free 2 day shipping.
2. Instant streaming of over 10,000 videos
3. Borrow 1 (one) book a month for free from Lending Library. Currently the majority of these books are self-published and none of the Big6 publishing companies participate in this program.
How free is working for me!
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011On June 26th, my first self-published book (a novella), ALL’S FAIR IN LOVE & SEDUCTION went live on B&N and Amazon. I suffered all kinds of nervousness about its release. Would readers buy it? Would they like it enough to read the prior two books in the series. More importantly, would their interest be peaked in the next book in the series, AN HEIR OF DECEPTION, of which I’d included the first three chapters at the end of the novella? I had no idea but I cross my fingers and prayed.
What warrants a 1 star review?
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011Most of the books I read are professionally edited and the writing is good to fantastic. The issues I have with most books I read is the story and its appeal–or lack thereof.
Lack of appeal could be: characterization, plausibility issues, too much internal examining by either hero or heroine, or the dreaded, nothing is really going on. But those are taste issues. What appeals to others may not necessarily appeal to me and vice versa. That’s why reviews are subjective.
But if pressed and I had to rate a book that was essentially well written and not to my tastes, I’m not ever going to give it 1 star. If you can write, you will garner at least 2 stars from me on a scale of 1 to 5. Of course, that’s just me. Everyone has their own criteria when it comes to rating books and I’d like to know yours. Specifically, I want to know what would make you give a book 1 star?
A bit of this and that
Monday, November 28th, 2011I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I know I did. Now it’s full speed ahead to Christmas. I’m exhausted just thinking about it. My son has been bugging me to put up our tree since early November. He won’t be put off any longer. Sigh. 
So what’s up? Well, as of early this morning, the tally for free downloads of ALL’S FAIR IN LOVE & SEDUCTION has reached 126,417. That’s a little more than halfway to my goal of 250,000. When I reach that goal, I’m going to give away a Kindle Fire.
RAINN: Comment for a cause
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011Last week, the college sports world and the country were rocked the sexual abuse allegations at Penn State University. I won’t get into the nitty gritty details of this story as, I’m sure, many of you have heard the more than disturbing charges being brought against the former assistant football coach, Jerry Sandusky.
If these allegations and everything set forth in the 23 page grand jury indictment are true, Penn State allowed a pedophile to roam free for years.
Well this time, I’m not going to bury my face in the sand and just be happy this didn’t happen to my child. Every child, regardless of gender, race, nationality or religion deserves to be protected against any kind of abuse be it emotional, physical, physiological or sexual.
That’s why today, I’m going to donate $.50 for every comment on today’s post to RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network).
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network is the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1.800.656.HOPE and the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline at rainn.org, and publicizes the hotlines’ free, confidential services; educates the public about sexual violence; and leads national efforts to prevent sexual violence, improve services to victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.
The abuse of children is a world-wide epidemic and the vast majority of victims remain silent, suffering in silence. No, as one individual, I don’t believe I can stop this, but I want to try to do something no matter how small.
And the winners are…
Monday, November 7th, 2011BECAUSE YOU’RE MINE by Lisa Kleypas
LSUReader
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THE DUKE IS MINE by Eloisa James
Christy L.
Congratulations, ladies. Please email your snail mail address to me at contests at theseasonforromance dot com and don’t forget to include the title you won. You have one week to claim your prize.
Ccccchhhhaaaannnnges…
Thursday, October 27th, 2011Yesterday, I was forced to take stock of my life when I realized AN HEIR OF DECEPTION wasn’t going to be ready by January 2012. It literally hurt my heart to admit it to myself. I then looked back and realized I managed to complete the first draft of SINFUL SURRENDER in 60 days. I wrote 115,000 words in 60 days!!! Was I on speed or something??!! (**Note — Although I completed the first draft in 60 days, I then sent 9 mos on and off rewriting, revising, and polishing the book about 3 times before I sent out the version that was contracted by Kensington. After it was contracted still more revisions and polishing prior to publication. Suffice it enough to say, I spent a great deal of time writing this book.)
And the winners are…
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011First things first, the November issue of The Season is up! Reviews will be coming shortly but right now you can at least check out the books.
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A Julie Long Pennyroyal Green book and an autographed cover flat of HOW THE MARQUESS WAS WON is…
JULIE
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