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Comment by Neil Ostroff on May 21, 2012 at 12:40pm Anything can happen
When it comes to indie publishing on Kindle I’ve learned to expect the unexpected when sales are involved. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to why books sell on some days and don’t on others. The key is to market and promote on a regular basis. That said, I’ve been feeling frustrated with my sales lately, having set sales goals that far exceed what my actual sales are this month. I set these goals several months ago when it was colder and my books were selling, and it seemed like my writing career was well on its way. But then something happened and sales remained stagnant and then actually started to fall. I went into a kind of panic (I’m sure all writers are familiar with this) that no one would ever read my books again and that I would never have another sale. Feeling a bit like a failure, I decided to give SILENT INVASION a free three-day promo this past weekend. I didn’t really hype it all that much as truth be told, I didn’t really have time. The promo went well and I gave away about four hundred books in three countries. That made me feel pretty good that I got a new group of readers, but what made me feel even better was that when I checked sales this morning I saw that INSECTLAND was way up. INSECTLAND is the second book in the three book series. DREAM TRAVELER is the third. I’m assuming my sales of INSECTLAND are directly related to the free promotion. If that’s the case, I should see sales of DREAM TRAVELER rise over the next few weeks. Also, I’m now in the process of getting FROSTPROOF on all my sites and then will begin a marketing and sponsorship campaign for that one. Iuniverse gave me back all rights to the electronic versions of my books so PULP is my next novel to go live worldwide. I’ll probably have that one ready to go by end of June. I do have a sponsorship for DEGENERATES coming up on May 27th on Kindle Nation Daily. My last sponsorship on that site was for DROP OUT and it ended up selling a lot of copies. My fingers are crossed for DEGENERATES because it will open up my YA readers to my adult noir thrillers and once readers get a taste of them anything can happen.
http://www.neilostroff.blogspot.com
Comment by Cliff Ball on May 21, 2012 at 6:21am Times of Trial is my newest novel, and is the 2nd novel in my End Times series.
This novel is a parallel novel to Times of Trouble.
A preacher and his family, the Tyler’s, have a church that is dying in Arizona. Even though the church is dying, they take care of the remaining senior saints, including the ones in nursing homes and in hospice. The remaining family, the White’s, leave the same church and head to Wyoming to live in a community that was originally started by Doomsday Preppers back in the early 2000′s so they can attempt to escape the increasing persecution of Christians.
Meanwhile, President Collins orders the activation of Camps across the country that will house believers who he thinks are a threat to his rule. His patron, Michael Collins, manipulates events in the Middle East. The Tyler’s end up with others in a camp in Arizona, while the White’s and the community they live in gets attacked by government troops. Evans continues to manipulate events as the Rapture takes the Christians, and he gains ultimate power.
Comment by Lara Biyuts on May 21, 2012 at 3:12am ...thrilled to announce that more books begin to apprear on my Amazon author page. Please, visit the page to see and Like...
http://amazon.com/author/larabiyuts
Comment by Rachel Hunter on May 20, 2012 at 8:05am "Do you believe in Fate? Do you dare believe?"
Introducing fantasy novel, Empyreal Fate~
Comment by Patricia Gligor on May 20, 2012 at 7:05am If you'd like a chance to win a copy of Mixed Messages, the first novel in my Malone mystery series, post a comment on my blog answering this question: What kind of reader are you?
http://pat-writersforum.blogspot.com/
Comment by Jeffrey Allen Davis on May 18, 2012 at 8:44pm I'm offering my book, Lily's Redemption, for free on Smashwords this weekend. Use code KA98L. If you enjoy it, please leave a review.
Since the night his wife was killed in a car accident, novelist Thomas Bradford has dedicated his life to his young daughter, to his writing, and to Christ. But when Kassandra Moore, a lovely young woman from California, moves to his Missouri town and begins attending his church, he is surprised to find himself falling for the new Christian.
Life seems to be getting better for the widower. But who is the stranger who has started following him around in the blue Corvette? Is it an obsessed fan . . . or something worse? And what does this person have to do with a missing missionary and Tom's new girlfriend?
Comment by CBM Christian Book Marketing on May 16, 2012 at 12:40pm 
A CBM Press Release Comment by Neil Ostroff on May 6, 2012 at 7:07am Creating Characters
I’m often asked how I create my characters. At last count I have somewhat in the neighborhood of seventy-five to eighty relatively strong characters. By strong, I mean these characters actually have back stories and personalities that come across on the page. Some are absolutely terrifying, like Cody Larson in FROSTPROOF and Tommy Fielding in DEGENERATES. Some are adventurous, like Tim Madison in SILENT INVASION, and Jamie Richards in DREAM TRAVELER, and some are tragic, yet beautiful, like Nathan Cruz and Miriam Kanter in DROP OUT. All of my characters have one thing in common. They are not modeled after any single person. You see, my characters are a conglomeration of people I’ve known and associated with over the course of my life. I can’t say that one certain character has more of someone than another character. This always seems to perplex my friends and associates who often tell me this or that character is just like them. It seams most people are hoping their personality will be immortalized in story form. I’ve even had an old girlfriend get angry with me because she thought the character Astor in DEGENERATES was too much like her. I had to assure her that Astor was NOT based on her, but on at least eight different people, most of whom I went to college with. When I write I transform and become my characters. I become the clairvoyant prostitute in PULP and the daring young man fighting an alien insect invasion in INSECTLAND. I immerse myself in that world and create the fantasy. It would be hard for me to pretend to be someone I know, if that makes any sense.
http://www.neilostroff.blogspot.com
Comment by Patricia Gligor on April 29, 2012 at 9:13am Read about the parallel between a true story (although I didn't know about it until a few days ago) and my recently published mystery novel, Mixed Messages. Truly eerie! http://ning.it/n0myM1
Comment by Shawn Lamb on April 27, 2012 at 6:36am The Topsy-Turvy World of Amazon Rankings. http://bitly.com/hfiJoj
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