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Here is an excerpt from one of my novels.
PULP
By
N. D. Ostroff
CHAPTER 1
How it all began
I knew I shouldn’t…
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My wife and I live near a lake and every morning we take a long walk. Well, this morning my wife turns to me and says out of the blue; “You need to make 1.4 million dollars.”
“Done,” I replied.
“No really,” she pressed. “We need 1.4 million dollars.”
“Why that amount?” I asked.
She gave me this answer. 1.4 million dollars is the number she came up with that will allow us to retire; which sounded good to me since we’re both in our early forties. She came…
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For years and years, I dreamed of hitting it big as a writer. That dream kept me going through twelve hour days slaving in a corporate kitchen, through hard financial times, and even through bad relationships. The dream got closer when I signed with a top NY agency and even closer when editors of big publishing houses were requesting my stuff. But alas, the big viral hit still hasn’t happened. The books are written and being written, and quite a few are available for purchase and have…
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I’ve been publishing about a book every three months for the last two years. But it’s only in the last six months that I’ve published my stuff electronically on Kindle and Smashwords, and started heavy marketing and promotion on the internet. Now, you’ve got to understand, these are books that I’ve written over the course of twenty years. They have been through countless edits and critiques by friends and professionals. All have been through the ringer with good agents and…
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It used to be that to become a published author (besides just writing a really good book) you had to also spend countless hours writing and addressing query letters, waiting patiently for agent’s responses (months), and then miracle upon miracles, you get signed to a LEGITIMATE agency. That’s only the beginning. Now, it’s up to the agent to make that one-in-a-hundred sale as opposed to the one-in-a-million chance an un-agented author had. And again, miracle upon miracles, it…
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Today is the day I started my promo/marketing for DROP OUT. Already logged up 4 sales (woo hoo). I discovered a great link on Goodreads that takes you to people who are looking for book recommendations. Some people just tell you what books they've read and that they're looking for something similiar, and some people actually describe the type of book they want to read. This is awesome because I have six different books that I can suggest. And the best part, there are at least 30,000 of these…
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My newest novel, DROP OUT goes live tomorrow, yeah!!! But what is almost as rewarding as publishing a new novel is what happened to me the other day. But first, let me tell you a story about Neil at 17 years old. Here I was, a geeky high school student with a crush on one of the school's cheerleaders. Now, I knew she was out of my league from the start, but I was young and bold, and figured what the hey. So I let it be known that I liked her. (back then there were no cell phones, or…
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Well, my mom finally read my book DEGENERATES http://www.amazon.com/Degenerates-N-D-Ostroff/dp/1440173028/ref%3Dsr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1299436405&sr=8-3…
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And the heat wave continues around here. There's only one thing good about it being this hot outside, I don't feel guilty staying inside. Anyway, the writing life continues heat or no heat. I blasted out another chapter of INSECTLAND today, actually it's a re-read. I wrote the original way back in 1997 as part of a three book series. the first book TIM MADISON GALACTIC WARRIOR is available right now at:…
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Okay, I got over the woman who bashed me. Thanks to all who responded with their own stories of jerks.
So, in my continued quest to get rich and famous I've come up with a few marketing ideas. First off, though not an original idea, I've decided to get bookmarks made that have pics. of my books and my website, plus info to buy them. I'm putting some at the front desk of the hotel I work at and I am going to local stores to ask if I can put them on the counter so people can…
Added by Neil Ostroff on July 29, 2011 at 10:33am — No Comments
If you like books that will keep you awake at night reading, then check out this interview.
http://wwwthouhtfulreflections.blogspot.com/2011/07/after-author-neil-dostroff-has-another.html
Added by Neil Ostroff on July 26, 2011 at 11:37am — No Comments
All the thousands of hours of work I put into DROP OUT and it's off to the
formatter and done forever. Yeah! So, I've decided to devote myself to marketing
this week because I have the time and I was going to give AFTER one more blast
before I started rewriting INSECTLAND and marketing and promoting DROP OUT.
Okay, all is well and good. I've done my usual postings on Kindle forums and my
various writers sites that I belong to. But the other day I discovered something…
Added by Neil Ostroff on July 24, 2011 at 11:05am — 2 Comments
All set to go with DROP OUT. My format guy has it and I'm preparing to market
and promote. I recently read an article about how an Indie author can make a
living writing ebooks. There actually is a secret and here it is. WRITE A LOT OF
BOOKS! The article said that most authors who are earning a decent living from
their books have at least seven that are available. If you do the numbers it
makes sense. I've sold approximately forty copies of AFTER this month.…
Added by Neil Ostroff on July 21, 2011 at 7:54am — No Comments
Okay, so I finished the final of the final read for DROP OUT and I am excited to
release it into the world. Truth be told, this is the book that my agent said he
didn't want to try to sell because it was so out of my genre. But it is a story
that I always wanted to tell about the impotance of living life to its fullest.
My initial readers burst into tears at points while reading it, telling me how
sad it was, but also how meaningful. I'm curious as to the repsonse it…
Added by Neil Ostroff on July 15, 2011 at 9:48pm — No Comments
So those of you who have been following my blog know that I recently published
my first ebook AFTER and I detailed the marketing and promotion strategy in this
blog. Well, just as I'm about to begin the process of releasing my next ebook
DROP OUT, I learn a very valuable lesson that probably put five months of
promotion in the toilet. AFTER has sold copies, though not nearly as many as I'd
hoped considering I'd spent months marketing and currently my combined…
Added by Neil Ostroff on June 29, 2011 at 8:00pm — No Comments
Well, it's happening again. I've got the cover nearly complete for my new ebook DROP OUT. I'm currently tweaking the pitch for it and I must say, a website called http://www.mywriterscircle.com helped greatly. I posted my summary and got lots of free feedback which was awesome! I can't believe how much time some people took in editing my sample. It was like getting a dozen free edits. I highly recommend that site ansd also the Kindle forums.…
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I recently discovered a great site for free feedback on your writing. It's:
Mywriterscircle.com. I put up the first chapter of my new sci/fi novel
INSECTLAND and already have more than 60 views and ten comments on improvement.
Wow. The only catch is that you have to read and comment on others writing. But
hey, there's no longer a need to pay hundreds if not thousands of dollars for
editing when you can get it free!! These writers on the site are good, too.…
Added by Neil Ostroff on June 16, 2011 at 11:47am — No Comments
Thanks to all who commented and followed me on the tour. Unfortunately, I ran
out of time to comment on everyone but I did manage to leave a few and like and
repost most of your blogs. But now it's time to move on. I've been marketing
AFTER for several weeks now and it's exhausting work. I have managed several
sales and have gottten a lot of exposure but it is taking away from my true
love... creating my own worlds. I've decided to publish my next book by…
Added by Neil Ostroff on June 14, 2011 at 2:04pm — No Comments
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