We have a winner!

We have a winner in the Hickey(s) of the Beast Challenge! Dwain Smith, mad genius, fully loaded potassium source, and creator of the Banana of the Beast, has won a…

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Erekos Reader Drawing – we have a winner!

Courtesy of the resident Psychic Parrot and his patent-pending random selection process, we have a winner in the Erekos Reader Drawing! We've e-mailed Kathryn from Virginia to let her know…

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Hickey(s) of the Beast Challenge

We're gearing up for the release of Hickey of the Beast, a hilarious, creative, absolutely awesome YA fantasy by Isabel Kunkle. In honour of this great story, and tapping into…

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Reader Poll

So...Preditors & Editors is doing its annual Readers Poll, and Candlemark & Gleam and Erekos are up in several categories! Pretty please go vote for us? Candlemark & Gleam is…

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Publicity as Primary

As we move into a new year, with many exciting book launches planned, I've been thinking more and more about marketing and publicity. You see, the hardest part of being…

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On Pseudonyms

Interesting article here on choosing to write under a pseudonym, and why an author might want to do so. I think a lot of authors, particularly those who write in…

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Paperback Dolls

There is an absolutely phenomenal review of Erekos up over at Paperback Dolls, a book blog you should really be reading if you aren't already. Plus, there's an interview with…

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Fair pricing

The fair pricing debate is cropping up again. According to the author of that post, e-books should be priced very low indeed, at 99c to $2.99, because the overhead is…

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Goodies

Taking a bit of a break before the next Behind the Curtain post to ask...what sort of goodies would you dig for a book release? I'm thinking of freebies, downloadables…

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