Big ups to all three authors who entered the contest as well as all 42 folks who voted. Our first monthly Book Blurb Contest started as a landslide in one author’s favor, was tied only 12 hours before voting closed, and ended in a bit of a landslide for another author.
The winning book blurb was:
Barcode: The Legend of Apollo by Kashif [...]
Monthly archives for January, 2012
Jan. Book Blurb Contest Results: And ...
Big ups to all three authors who entered the contest as well as all 42 folks who voted. Our first monthly Book Blurb Contest started as a landslide in one author’s favor, was tied only 12 hours before voting closed, and ended in a bit of a landslide for another author.
The winning book blurb was:
Barcode: The Legend of Apollo by Kashif [...]
January Book Blurb Contest Voting Ope...
Today is the opening of our first monthly Book Blurb Contest here on Ruminating in the Desert.
The rules are simple. Below are three entrants. They are all independently-published authors. Two of them have already released their books while the other is just a week or so away from releasing theirs.
Each of them have written blurbs for their b [...]
5 Things Not to Do on Twitter
Twitter is great. I’ve met some great people on there but, as a fellow Tweep told me the other day, about 80 percent of the stuff we see on our twitter feeds is annoying garbage.
In the year 2012, lives are lived on the Internet. People need to start treating it at as such. You wouldn’t tolerate annoying behaviors in “real l [...]
Why You Need Beta Readers
I love my beta readers.
All three of them.
If you have a work in progress and think you are ready to publish…STOP! There are a few questions you should ask yourself. Have you edited your novel? Yes, of course you have. Editing is where your jumbled mass of text becomes a novel. Have you sought out feedback? Yes, but it was probably from [...]
The Versatile Blogger Award
Special thanks to Julia Elizabeth for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger Award.
I hadn’t been on Twitter very long before Julia followed me and immediately began supporting my efforts as an independent author. It is because of this support, as well as her enthusiasm for the writing process, that I’ve leaned on her throughout [...]
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