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Excerpts at the end of ebooks
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Gratuitous Violence?
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"All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same."
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"I think fiction in general is most often about underscoring accepted wisdom or bringing it into relief. I think that's particularly true for genre fiction. One of the things I really liked about Jurassic Park was that it did challenge the…"
Susan replied to Eric Christopherson's discussion Excerpts at the end of ebooks"Like the politicians say, the real "poll" is whoever gets elected. Why bother with polls? People lie to pollsters. The best poll is ... book sales.
For that matter, why worry about what other people say? Do your thing. If I worried about…"
Susan replied to Eric Christopherson's discussion Excerpts at the end of ebooks"Knew you'd like it. No tequila tho ..."
"I think most of us pick up such feedback from comments on reader sites. I've seen a few (fewer than 10, I think), but I'm not often on such sites."
Martyn V. Halm replied to Eric Christopherson's discussion Excerpts at the end of ebooks"I understand that you want 'hard evidence' that adding sample chapters is detrimental to ebooks.
I used to add the first chapter of Peccadillo to Reprobate (and that was after Peccadillo was finished, so there was no 'waiting…"
Susan replied to Eric Christopherson's discussion Excerpts at the end of ebooks"I'm a reader. I stated my opinion. What's so hard to understand?"
Susan replied to Eric Christopherson's discussion Excerpts at the end of ebooks"So grab a copy and write a review ... :) Ya might like it, NYC strip clubs, a call girl in Paris, and back to New Orleans with a gun."
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- I write mystery/suspense. Literary agent: John Rudolph at DGLM
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- Dashiell Hammett
Raymond Chandler
Martin Cruz Smith
Dennis Lehane
T. Jefferson Parker
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Frame-Up (a crime novel) is free today
Free tomorrow too on Amazon as an ebook. It has 4.5 stars out of 12 reviews but could use some more feedback...
Here is the link: http://amzn.to/t462bT
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 5:26am — 2 Comments
The Prophet Motive Wins Award
My cult thriller, The Prophet Motive, was my first attempt at fiction writing; but, after having written my second novel, I went back and revised it and turned it into an ebook. It's doing fairly well based on the Amazon reviewers, and it just won a Red Adept Reviews Indie Award for Thrillers/Suspense, 2011.
See…
ContinuePosted on January 10, 2012 at 6:12am
Thumbs Down from Traditional Publishers
Well my co-written thriller, Frame-Up, has now been rejected by most of the relevant imprints in New York after about a year of submissions. (That keeps us in good company, though. All of New York passed on John Grisham's The Firm the first time around as well as countless other novels that later enjoyed success.) We've now self-published the book:
For those authors who haven't experienced…
ContinuePosted on November 10, 2011 at 5:30am
Celebrating 15,000 eBooks Sold!
Yep, there just might be something to this Kindle thingie.
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 4:01pm — 4 Comments
Comment Wall (11 comments)
- At 6:10am on January 14, 2011,
Bernard J. Schaffer said… I began dealing with Anita, the agent for Crosswind through Bill Thompson (editor extraordinaire, as described in Stephen King's "On Writing") after Bill edited my novel. From what I can tell, those internet posts began with a disgruntled person she dealt with years ago.
Crosswind successfully repped a book last year ("House of Roses") and for me, they are the right choice.
So...long story short, yes.
- At 9:06pm on July 19, 2010,
Lexi Revellian said… - Hi Eric! Congratulations on over 5k sales of Crack-Up - that is awesome. I may ask you for hints on how you did it.
It is indeed CaFS I'm self-publishing; it's now called Heart of Rock. A steep learning curve, but I'm getting there by salami slices. I'm going to do Kindle, Smashwords and a paperback with, I hope, Lightning Source.
Lexi
- At 12:21am on August 30, 2009,
Donna Carrick said… - So Eric, your co-authored project sounds terrific! What are the latest efforts/developments, if you don't mind sharing? Wishing you the very best of luck -- it's a hard row we hoe, no doubt about that. With all your hard work, it will pay off eventually! (A dear friend of mine just signed a 3-book deal with Pengui. After 3 years w/an agent who didn't sell it, she changed agents and it sold in a month!)
- At 11:25pm on August 12, 2009,
Dana King said… - Eric,
I realized after I left that last comment that your post was several months old. not sure how it floated to the top of the list again. Once i saw it was dated, I was hoping we'd heard nothing else just because things were still pending. I'm sorry to hear ti didn't work out with the agent.
As I mentioned somewhere else the other day (I forget where), we're just going to have to keep knocking on the door until someone answers.
Good luck and keep the faith.
Dana
- At 9:38am on May 19, 2009,
Mark P. Henderson said… - Eric - Following your advice I've uploaded some material on YouWriteOn and I agree with you. The formal assessment system they use wouldn't be to everyone's taste (and to be honest, some of the material you're asked to assess is mediocre at best), but I like it. I've not yet received any feedback so I can't say yea or nay to your opinion of that, but I do see that it's a "fairer contest" than Authonomy. Nevertheless I enjoy Authonomy. I agree that writing talent isn't a determinant of ranking there, but I've networked with some lovely people - and there are one or two really fine books on the site (just not highly ranked!).
- At 11:23pm on November 17, 2008,
carole gill said… - just wanted to wish you the very best of luck, ERic!
i didn't answer in the forum, because I don't know very much about Agents.
take care and all the best!!!!
- At 9:30pm on December 4, 2007,
Olav Guldbrandsen said…
- My good ol' folks, back in the 18 hundreds, had some Kristoffersons on my mothers side that went to the states after granny kristofferson drowned in Oslos factory river, Akerselva. - But it wasn't the name, I promise you. - It was MCSmiths mention, of course. You knew that. First time aboard the site yesterday, and started the rounds by searching after others interested in the same kind of writing as I like.
At work now. Must dally on with horrible book.
- At 6:16am on December 3, 2007, Donna Carrick said…
- Terrific space, Eric. I like your alter ego -- bogey is one of my faves.
Donna Carrick www.donnacarrick.com
- At 1:53am on November 7, 2007,
Charlotte Williamson said…
- I like your picture. Funny.... you look a lot like Bogey. Or maybe Bogey looks a lot like you?
- At 8:08pm on September 16, 2007, carole gill said…
- Oh, you clever man! Quite right. I stand corrected. should it be a socially acceptable form of mulitple personality then? I only have one year credit so I bow to you! thanks.
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