Ebooks
Fiction Friday: Opal Dreams and Barroom Brawls
Welcome to Fiction Friday, a chance for me to share bits of novels written or novels in progress. I spent much of the past month editing my Tales of the Pacific series written in the late 1980s so I could reissue each of the four as ebooks. For the past two Fridays I’ve introduced you…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Tough Guys and Sophisticated Women?
Welcome to Fiction Friday. I can see it’s going to be lots of fun finding excerpts for you to enjoy from books I’ve written. Clearly the four ebooks I’ve recently put on line are the ones on my mind and therefore the ones I’ll be sharing with you for a while. This is an excerpt…
Read MoreWho Doesn’t Love Bargain Books?
At last I can tell you more about the promotion for From Glowing Embers that I mentioned in my last blog. You might have noticed (did you?) that I didn’t ply you with links as I introduced my newest ebook. That’s because I knew you might want to buy it as part of this wonderful…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Lovers Reunited
Welcome to my new blog feature, Fiction Friday, where on Fridays–whenever I can–I’ll share a snippet from a novel I’m writing or have written. The snippets won’t always be the beginning of a story, like today’s, but they will always be something I hope you’ll enjoy. Today’s excerpt is from my novel From Glowing Embers,…
Read MoreEmilie Richards’ Classics
As most of you know, I began my writing career in the romance genre and published dozens of romances before I realized I was writing about many things other than romance that I wanted to explore in more depth. Slowly, without realizing it, I had moved into a broader “genre,” women’s fiction, which encompasses all…
Read MoreKiki Lowenstein Rides Again
One of the best parts of being an author is making friends with other authors. In 2008 my friend Joanna Campbell Slan began her new mystery series, the Scrap-N-Craft mysteries featuring scrapbooker Kiki Lowenstein, who manages to get herself into the most amazing predicaments. I had the pleasure of interviewing Joanna here two years ago,…
Read MoreHanging Out On the Beach For Fun and Profit
Last week’s Novelists Inc. conference was fabulous. I came home with so much information, but unfortunately no suntan to go with it. I was inside the hotel at workshops madly scribbling notes almost the entire time. When I wasn’t, I was investigating Sarasota with friends, which might well turn out to be our Florida home someday. …
Read MoreHow Hard Can It Be? Publishing an eBook.
Last Friday at Southern Exposure I posted the original covers of my novels Once More With Feeling and Twice Upon A Time, and showed the way the eBook cover for Twice Upon A Time grew from stock photography to finished product. Twice Upon A Time was the easiest. I immediately found several photographs I liked, including one…
Read MoreCan You Judge An eBook By Its Cover?
I’ll confess of the more than sixty books I’ve written, I’ve had good covers and not-so-good covers. I’ve had a few great ones, too. Not surprisingly, those books sold the best. Have I made my point succinctly? Covers make a difference. A very big difference. And sometimes it’s hard to get them right. When I decided to…
Read MoreEbooks, Treasured Novels, and Becoming My Own Publisher
So there I was last October, in a packed room with treasured colleagues, authors I love, authors I’ve admired, and newish authors with infectious enthusiasm for this crazy career of ours. And in the front on the panels? Some of the most powerful people in publishing. Novelists, Inc., an international group of multi-published authors, is the only…
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