All Blog Posts Tagged 'and' (17)

B&N to release competition for Amazon's Kindle with its "Nook" e-reader

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/barnes-nobles-kindle-killing-dual-screen-nook-e-reader-leaked/ Same price, sharing with others, color touchscreen, supports open formats such as EPUB, 2GB storage, wifi, b&w e-ink screen, discounted prices for ebooks (finally!)...the Kindle is in trouble. Continue

Added by John Dishon on October 21, 2009 at 12:43pm — 8 Comments

Research-- A labour of love, or just one more diversion?

Some people share a popular misconception that fictional stories appear fully formed in the mind, waiting to be dropped casually onto a page, as if the writer is nothing more than an automaton, a vehicle through which fiction can flow. There are, in fact, many aspects to creating any written work. Take for example the art of research. I’m often asked how much research I do and what resources I use. Depending on the type of story being told, at some point most w… Continue

Added by Donna Carrick on October 13, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

WV Book Festival @Charleston Civic Center October 10-11th

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the WV Book Festival. Come on down Saturday-Sunday October 10-11th at the Charleston Civic Center. Panel discussions, book signings, Agents/Publishing, and chat with local authors. Join me and Robert Walker at 2:30 on Sunday as we discuss how to get your book ready for an agent/publishing house, methods on finding agents and publishers, a look into the publishing world, book promotion, and much more. We will have a book signing after the discussion.… Continue

Added by Miranda Phillips Walker on October 9, 2009 at 8:18am — No Comments

Review - Death and the Running Patterer, Robin Adair

Book Title: DEATH AND THE RUNNING PATTERER Author: Robin Adair Publisher: Penguin Copyright: 2009 ISBN: 978-1-921518-25-6 No of Pages: 311 Book Synopsis: One of the convict colony's soldiers has been murdered and Governor Ralph Darling is not pleased. Reluctantly, he turns to Nicodemus Dunne for help. Book Review: DEATH AND THE RUNNING PATTERER is the book that won Penguin's last Most Wanted Crime Writing competition, and there's a comment in the acknowledgements that explain a little about… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on September 17, 2009 at 8:21pm — No Comments

Novel Ideas

Ideas for novels come from a variety of sources: overheard conversations, stories relayed by others, personal experience, locations and the news. On my blog I recently mentioned the Windsurfing Festival on Hayling Island as a potential idea for an Inspector Andy Horton Marine Mystery crime novel, well here's another idea that popped into my Google Reader - Murder on the Hayling Seaside Express. For the first time since 1963 a steam passenger train is to return to Hayling Island. Then another re… Continue

Added by Pauline Rowson on September 16, 2009 at 12:16am — No Comments

Marketing Your Novel with Success!

Alrighty then, your book has been published--Great! Now the hard work really starts, you need to know it's up to you to promote it. I know some of you are working with a large publishing house and think your covered. Well take off your rose colored glasses. Yes, the big houses will do some promo work, but it's not like it use to be, with budget and staff cuts all around, you can't sit back and hope magic happens. If you don't know this, take note, publishers and agents you will deal with from no… Continue

Added by Miranda Phillips Walker on July 11, 2009 at 1:16pm — 2 Comments

Do Writers Need Rules?

From The Crimes of Austin Carr "To the extent I know how to write clearly at all, I probably taught myself while I was teaching others -- seventh graders, in Flint, Michigan, in 1967. I taught them with a copy of Strunk & White lying in full view on my desk, sort of in the way the Gideons leave Bibles in cheap hotel rooms, as a way of saying to the hapless inhabitant: 'In case your reckless ways should strand you here, there's help.' S&W doesn't really teach you how to write, it… Continue

Added by Jack Getze on March 27, 2009 at 4:44pm — 12 Comments

Doom and Gloom in the Book World

When Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co announced a freeze on the purchase of most new manuscripts (story here) and Harper Collins and Pearson, parent company of Penguin Group (USA), announced they were freezing wages and considering layoffs (story here), we knew times were tough. The bad economy has hu… Continue

Added by The Poisoned Pen Bookstore on January 9, 2009 at 2:00am — 3 Comments

I need Each of You to Please Help Me Out!!!!

Silent Scream is listed on the Preditors and Editors site for Novel of the Year. Currently it is sitting in 9th place. I have until hte 14th to get it to number one. It would be so great if we could get it there. It would mean that the girls are being heard even better. Here is the link please if you haven't voted please vote and then tell others- Help the girls with their voice. http://www.critters.org/predpoll/novel.shtml Please give the girls a voice. Help them be heard. Let's get it to num… Continue

Added by Yvonne Mason on January 8, 2009 at 11:28pm — No Comments

Rebroadcast of Investigation Discovery Interview on Wicked Attraction Series Tonight -- Thurs., Dec. 11th

Season's greetings, friends: I wanted to let you know that in case you missed it when shown in September, the rebroadcast of my second TV interview this year will be tonight. It is on Investigation Discovery's Wicked Attraction series. The episode, "Twisted Twosome," will be shown on the following dates: Thursday, Dec. 11th, 9 p.m., EST; and Friday, Dec. 12th, 12 a.m., EST If you have Comcast, it's on channel 271. See synopsis below. Twisted Twosome He wa… Continue

Added by R. Barri Flowers on December 12, 2008 at 3:10am — No Comments

In Cold Daylight Now Published in Poland

In Cold Daylight was published in Poland today. Renamed Fire And Water ( Ogien i Woda) this is the second of my marine mystery crime novels to be published in Polish. It is always very exciting to see your work translated into another language and I was al… Continue

Added by Pauline Rowson on November 29, 2008 at 2:15am — No Comments

Tony Napoli's Life in Organized Crime

Tony Napoli's autobiography, My Father, My Don is a bold recounting of the confidential world that he and his father inhabited. Tony “Tony Nap” Napoli is the son of one of the most powerful and respected organized crime leaders of the modern era. Be sure to stop by Books and… Continue

Added by Donna Sundblad on November 22, 2008 at 11:33pm — No Comments

Audio Books and E Books

My second Inspector Horton novel, Deadly Waters is out in audio format as a download and as a CD and in cassette form on… Continue

Added by Pauline Rowson on July 9, 2008 at 3:44am — No Comments

All about Agatha

Did you know Agatha Christie only received 25 pounds for her first mystery, The M… Continue

Added by Clea Simon on July 4, 2008 at 3:00am — No Comments

Marketing and What Readers Can Do to Help

Every Secret Crime will be released in two days. Want to help with marketing? There are four things you can do that are absolutely stone critical. 1: Buy Every Secret Crime and enjoy it. 2: Write a review of Every Secret Crime on Amazon, Barnes and Noble.com or any sales site where you're allowed to post one. Point of sale reviews are essential. By a large majority, readers tell me they bought my first book based on the reviews they found on the listing page. It doesn't have to be long and inv… Continue

Added by Doug M. Cummings on June 16, 2008 at 11:23pm — No Comments

Rebroadcast of Biography Channel Interview This Week

Hello, friends: Hope all is well for you and yours. For those of you who missed my TV interview on the Biography Channel's Crime Stories, here's a chance to catch the rebroadcast at the end of this week as follows: Crime Stories:… Continue

Added by R. Barri Flowers on May 28, 2008 at 1:25am — No Comments

A Few Musings on Self-Promotion

I spent a long couple of years as the part-time Public Affairs director of a Chicago radio station. Among other things, I hosted a weekly public-affairs show which spotlighted various civic activities, community issues and, yes, authors with new books. The latter subject was entirely self-serving. I didn't have a book out but I figured I might learn something from those who did. I produced the show. Directed the show. Recorded the show. And...opened mail for the show. A lot of mail. I had two… Continue

Added by Doug M. Cummings on April 18, 2008 at 5:00am — 8 Comments