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RTFM
I recently read a blog post about an author who screwed up 17, 500 free downloads of her debut novel by publishing to KDP using a .pdf version of her manuscript. In short, the conversion to a...
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Tip Tuesday: Three Groovy Tips
Friends - Pardon the light post today. I’m in a race to finish my third Marty Singer mystery, Signs, before next week when one of my redoubtable beta-readers has asked for it. But I’ve recently...
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Read Some Blog, Get Some Book
Some interesting things afoot here in Matt Iden Land. To wit: I’m guest blogging on Omnimystery News today about the inspiration for my protagonist, Marty Singer. If you said Spenser, Reacher, or...
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ARTL featured on Kindle Nation Daily
Friends - I’m today’s feature on Kindle Nation Daily, which means you can read a whopping 20,000 word excerpt of A Reason to Live* plus enter for a chance to win a Kindle Fire! Please share with...
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Not so funny
After less than scintillating results on, well, every e-book retail outlet except Amazon, I was inspired to create what is quite possibly the worst drawn cartoon in the world. I would be more...
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Caveat Writer
Successful paranormal author Ilona Andrews recently had her short story “Questing Beast”–offered free on her website for fans–swiped and re-posted to Amazon, where some unscrupulous magsman was selling...
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Advertising Your Book on Goodreads: Thoughts, Numbers, Questions
I’ve embarked on a number of low-cost, (hopefully) high-impact advertising ventures to boost my book sales. Over the next few days and weeks, I’ll examine what I’ve done and try to draw lessons and...
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Free Holiday Bonanza on Amazon!
Happy Holidays! To celebrate the season and get 2013 off to a rousing start, I’m setting a slew of my titles on Amazon to “free” at different points over the next week and a half. If you like crime...
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Amazon gives up on books, buys customers’ ability to read instead
Seattle–(BUSINESS LINE)–April 1, 2013– In a not-entirely-surprising move, online retail giant Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced today that it had moved its publishing model beyond the...
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Thoughts On Also Boughts
Like many self-published writers, I’ve been unhappy/dismayed/puzzled at Amazon’s removal of ratings and stars from Also Boughts’ listings, but I might be having a change of heart–I was just looking at...
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What Did Your Readers Like? Kindle’s “Shared Notes & Highlights”
Something that’s given me a real surge of pride and joy lately has been discovering the Kindle “Shared Notes & Highlights” section for each of my books. Notes and Highlights are, well, notes and...
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New Reader Orientation (Fall 2013)
(The following is an unabashed and outright idea theft from horror writer Brian Keene’s blog, which you should read and subscribe to.) My name is Matthew Iden. I am a self-published, independent writer...
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Deals, News, & More Deals
Hi Everyone - Just a few quick notes. After the holidays, I hope to turn my attention to writing more on the blog as well as a site redesign, but life has been hectic around here. Finding Emma $.99 To...
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Audiobook of Blueblood in AudioFile magazine
I just got a nice review of Blueblood in AudioFile magazine, the leading glossy on all things audiobook: Lloyd Sherr narrates this involved story, with its complex, well-developed characters, in a...
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I’ve got a quick, but significant announcement: I’ve just published my newest release, The B-Team, a Kindle Worlds-commissioned novel set in Barry Eisler’s world of the lethal half-Japanese,...
View ArticleDrum roll please… (Marty #6!)
At last! I’m pleased to announce that Once Was Lost, Marty Singer #6, is finally available for pre-order! It’s been a long wait, I know, but the team at Thomas & Mercer has been working diligently...
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