Business Musings: Amazon: Year in Review Part 5

I used to be quite dismissive of the usefulness of the 20Booksto50K conference. Pre-pandemic, 20Books was all about Amazon, Kindle, Kindle Select, and making money on page reads. Great money, for a few folks who learned to manipulate Amazon’s algorithms. Good money, for some who went exclusive to Amazon and manipulated the algorithms. Okay money, for many who did what they could when they were […]

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The Bundle Summer

Hmmm. That sounds like a great story title. I must consider it. But right now, it’s a title for this blog post. Because at the moment, you can find my work in three different bundles. First, for those of you who love short stories, have I got a bundle for you. Jamie Ferguson put together a bundle of twenty urban fantasy short stories, including one […]

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Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: Extremes

Once per month, I’ll publish an excerpt of one of my novels, and I hope you’ll be intrigued enough to buy the rest of the book.  I began this practice in February. Unlike the free fiction I put up every Monday, the novel excerpts will remain on the site.  If you want to read the opening to the previous nine novels, click here. This month, I’ve excerpted […]

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Killer Advice

This seems to be a week in which I announce new stories.  I have a few others to tell you about as well. But today’s choice, “Killer Advice,” in the January Asimov’s.  The story is a mystery set on a space station. Locus Magazine has already called “Killer Advice” “a good read.”  So check it out for yourself.  The subscription copies are just arriving.  You […]

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