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Last minute gift ideas

Did you know... eBooks make great gifts... And you can send them directly to a loved one's email on Christmas Day... Oh ... and if you haven't read my first romantic -suspense bestseller, She Belongs to Me , it's my gift to you.  Merry Christmas, my friends, and Happy Reading! You can find all my books to download or gift here .

Why do authors offer the book they slaved over for two years, or longer, at .99 cents?

I just read a wonderful post, as always, by the lovely Melissa Foster. She and I have discussed the marketing price point of 99-cent books several times. I love how she showed the positives and negatives. That it may work, it may not. Every writer has things that will work for them that may not work for others. Of course, this post is for authors, but I welcome readers to understand why we do what we do and encourage you not to believe that just because a book is $0.99 cents, that it’s a cheap book. I've experimented with several options, and here are my thoughts: To start, let me say that I swear it's actually easier to sell a car than an eBook. Really, I've sold both; I know. What amazes me is that readers will pay $14.99 for an eBook sitting alongside a 99-cent eBook. Same amount of reviews, same average rating, same genre, and yet, they do!  Why? What I've come to realize is that readers aren't paying the price for the book as much as...

To promote or not to promote, that is the question.

Seriously!  That is the Real Question.   No matter what you’re selling, giving away, lending, promoting, sharing, offering, praising…that is always the question. Prior to sitting down and finally publishing my first novel last year, I spent fifteen years in sales and marketing. Every day of those fifteen years was spent trying to figure out how the company could sell more than they did yesterday, last week, last month, last year. No matter how well you did, there was always an expectation to do better today. Thankfully, we were typically on a monthly sales schedule, so it was only on the first day of the month that you went from Hero to Zero . No matter what you did the previous month, on the first day of each month, the counters all restarted and everyone was on an even playing field, which was great if you had a horrible previous month, but terrible if your previous month was stellar. I honestly felt as though I were on a hamster wheel and realized if ...