The Pie Charts Have a New Home

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Written on August 2, 2010 by   · 1 Comment

Everyone knows I love to post charts and babble endlessly about numbers.  I sometimes feel the urge to post a chart, though, and then decide I don’t want to post it here, on what is really a place where I like hanging out and chatting with readers.  Which is not to say some of you aren’t... Read more


“Why are you giving your book away for free?!?”

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Written on June 21, 2010 by   · 15 Comments

I have been crazy excited about the fact that we get to give away as many copies of Cry Sanctuary as people can download over the next two weeks.  My husband is tired of listening to me cheer about it, that’s for sure.  I have talked before about how I believe so, so hard in the power of free,... Read more


12 Months of Kindle Sales

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Written on May 22, 2010 by   · 18 Comments

This picture is worth at least a thousand words, so I’ll put it right at the top… I post this, mostly, as illustration of what a difference even six months can make in digital publishing.  Look at my numbers for August, 2009.  I wasn’t exactly dancing in the streets–and they... Read more


Digital Self Publishing vs Epublishing

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Written on April 17, 2010 by   · 4 Comments

If there’s one thing you’ll almost never hear me do, it’s state that there is One True Way to do things in publishing.  If we put aside the no-brainers (most of which deal with a lack of professionalism or common sense) so many of the choices we make should really just depend on our... Read more