Lending vs Downloading vs Pirating: The Fine Lines

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Written on December 30, 2010 by   · 10 Comments

So kindle has lending now! Except mostly only for small press titles, as most of the big traditional publishers don’t allow for ebook lending.  My personal opinion on that is that it’s absurd, since “kindle lending” (like Nook lending) is so limited as to barely deserve the title. Here’s... Read more


On Spamming (And my Goodreads Solution)

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Written on August 24, 2010 by   · 13 Comments

I love GoodReads. I love it as a reader, because I can keep track of my books and check on reviews for other books.  I love it as a writer because they make it easy for me to keep my backlist up to date.  It’s a great little site, but it has one huge honking problem that a lot of us complain... Read more


70% Amazon Royalties (For Some Definitions of 70%)

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Written on June 30, 2010 by   · 13 Comments

Amazon’s Digital Self Publishing platform was updated yesterday. (Perhaps the cause of their brief outage? Or maybe we can blame Android. Or me refreshing too much.)  I was poking around this morning and naturally wandered over to the Pricing Page, even though I don’t have any books that... 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


The Officially Official, “How do you guys write, anyway?” Post

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Written on May 26, 2010 by   · 25 Comments

This is without a doubt the question we get asked most often, and the most complicated one to answer.  Every writing partnership works differently.  They could trade off chapters or scenes or paragraphs or points of view or any number of permutations I’m probably not thinking of. For Donna &... Read more


My Very Serious Thoughts On…

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Written on April 19, 2010 by   · 2 Comments

Blogs are nice, but they’re sort of immediate.  Something happens, you post a topical reply, but then in a few weeks they’re mostly forgotten unless you happen to be a very organized tagger.  (Hint: I’m not.) There are a lot of questions I get asked a fair bit, and I’m sure... Read more