All Blog Posts Tagged 'selling' (11)

DVD of CSI Portsmouth 2012 where crime fiction meets crime fact now on sale

A DVD of CSI Portsmouth 2012, which was held on 3 November as part of Portsmouth Bookfest, featuring crime authors Stephen Booth, Ann Cleeves, Matt Hilton and Pauline Rowson has now been released and is on sale as a two disk set.

Over a hundred and sixty people attended the one day event held…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on December 12, 2012 at 12:33am — No Comments

Weekly best seller list for Scandinavian Crime Fiction

Thanks to a tattooed, adventurous , bisexual computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander, Scandinavian crime fiction is now one of the most popular categories among mystery readers around the world. So far Noir-flavored books from Scandinavia have sold more than 6 million copies in the United States and 35 million copies worldwide and have become a publishing…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on February 10, 2012 at 9:16am — 2 Comments

The Last Rites has Been Released

My second true crime is now out

Added by Yvonne Mason on August 15, 2011 at 11:22pm — No Comments

Dark Tales of Terror Signing Hunington, WV 4-6pm 4/3/10 Media Coverage! at Borders

Please Join Miranda Phillips Walker, Robert Walker and other WV Authors on Saturday 4/3/10 at Borders, Huntington, WV 4-6PM a slew of authors in the WV writers based anthology Dark Tales of Terror, edited by award-winning, native West Virginian, Michael Knost will gather to sign books & reign in all the pastels of Easter and keep folks focused on The Dark Side of Easter....hehehehehe. It's really about the goose bumps....not the eggs.

Added by Miranda Phillips Walker on April 2, 2010 at 8:22am — No Comments

Miranda Phillips Walker gets jiggy with the Spirit World!

Coming Soon, Check out mine and Robert W. Walker's Short Story Contribution.

Added by Miranda Phillips Walker on March 14, 2010 at 10:51am — No Comments

Creative Marketing (R)

Since my new book releases next month, I've been thinking (a lot) about marketing. It seems to me that we must be just as creative in this phase as we were when plotting the novel, just as bold in approaching various venues as we were when seeking an agent. It's a bit daunting.

Here's what I've learned, or at least what I think I've learned.

No book will fit every venue every time. You have to choose where you'll expend your energies and forget trying to sell to every… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on December 3, 2009 at 10:07pm — No Comments

New Territory

If you're ever feeling good about getting published and all, just stop and think about how many states in this big ol' country of ours have never heard of you.

I'm planning my winter vacation/booktour, and this year we're going into states we've only driven through other years. So I begin the introductory letters, the offers, the enticements. "I'm someone you've never heard of, but I'm really okay, not crazy or anything."

It's a bit daunting, a bit exciting. And a lot of… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on October 22, 2009 at 10:17pm — 5 Comments

I See Dead People, Life of an ER Nurse

They say truth is stranger than fiction, I can tell you coming from a nursing point of view this is very true. I am reminding of this at least three times a week while I'm working in the Emergency Room, If I used any of these examples I would have to water them down because most people would think I was really off my rocker if I told the truth. With the release of my new book "The Well Meaning Killer" I'm starting to roll in some reviews, and some reviewers are questioning Megan McKenna's… Continue

Added by Miranda Phillips Walker on September 8, 2009 at 2:32am — No Comments

Let Me Tell You About My Weekend

Cold.

There, that's it in a nutshell. From that one word you can picture a line of tiny, transient shops, set up along a lake shore under canopies threatening to fly away (some did); customers staying home or at best hurrying through the rows with no willingness to browse, chat, or buy.

There were good things, of course. I met lots of really nice vendors and got to know them pretty well, since we had only each other to talk to. I had time to cut down that book the… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on May 18, 2009 at 9:56pm — No Comments

Folk Fest

I'm booked at a semi-local festival this weekend, one dedicated to, of all things, the Morel Mushroom. The weather is supposed to be non-cooperative, as usual. If it's outside and I'm signed up, Mother Nature is almost guaranteed to rain, sleet, or do a great imitation of Hemingway's three day blow. I practiced putting up my handy-dandy canopy by myself, since my "chauffeur" is fishing in Canada. Should be great.

It's often a little like Seger's descriptions of being on the road:… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on May 15, 2009 at 9:03pm — No Comments

Write That Bestseller!

Browsing the book store yesterday, it occurred to me that there are books that I never could have imagined anyone writing or reading. Who thought up a book about WWII radio operators, or how to make clever cupcakes, or slow-thinking guys named Forest who can run really fast and far?

Of course, not all books succeed, but someone loved the idea enough to write it down and do the editing work. Then someone else loved it enough to sink money into making it a book. And sometimes, someone… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on May 6, 2009 at 10:40pm — 5 Comments