All Blog Posts Tagged 'releases' (103)

INSECTLAND is now available nationwide! This week will be spent marketing

and promoting. I have several hundred people on various websites and forums

that are anticipating this book. Hopefully, it will reflect in the sales. If

you're looking to read a story like no other, than this book is for you. Please

check it out. Thanks.

INSECTLAND

Be frightened! Be very frightened!

Tiny, dragon-like creatures hiding in our homes are going to harm us. They…

The year is 2005 and I just signed with my agent at

Fineprint Literary. I was full of hope and excitement and dreams of hitting it

big. Unfortunately, three and a half years later we ended our contract. Now,

with six books available for sale and another four on the way I’m beginning to

wonder if it is worth the effort to try and get signed again. Considering the

average “good” agent receives over 100 email queries a day, what are my odds of

getting discovered even if…

Yeah, I had a top agent once; Gary Heidt at Signature Lit. Yeah, at one time I was

also signed to one of the best agencies in NY; Fineprint Lit. Yeah, I got phone

calls that editors wanted to buy my books. Yeah, you guessed it, they all fell

through in the end. But you know what? I don't care. Cause now, I can write,

publish, and sell anything I want. When I was signed to these agencies I got

dozens of rejections, not because my stuff was bad, the editors all said,…

Got another interview posted. Please check it out.

http://anthonycardno.com/?p=264

Lately, I've been getting into the interview thing. You'd be surprised how

many bloggers are looking for material and are willing to give an interview

with nothing in return. Of course, whenever I'm interviewed I promote it

heavily throughout the web which drives traffic to their blog. It's a symbiotic

partnership. Though I'm not sure how many sales these interviews generate, it

does give me lots of exposure. And I have gotten some nice feedback by…

From Highgate Hill to Kindle

When my mother was a small girl, my grandfather, Charles, stood holding her hand on Highgate Hill.  Together they watched one of the first aeroplanes fly overhead.  He looked down at Mother and said: ‘Nothing will come of those flying machines.”

Born within the sound of Bow Bells, the eldest of eight children, Charles was a scholarship boy at Westminster Boys School and sang in the choir at Westminster Abbey.  Unfortunately,…

Hey all,

There’s a new site that will promo your book for free. It’s
called Indie snippets. They’ve listed two of my books so far and will do more
in the coming weeks. Here are the links to the pages. Check it out.

http://www.indiesnippets.blogspot.com/

I’ve seen the commercials; a young child is telling a story as the computer automatically types it, fueling an imagination-laced story. The commercial makes it seem like anyone can be a writer. But by definition, what is a writer? I believe the term will soon be obsolete. Why? Because with speech recognition anyone can sit at a computer and talk into it, but it takes an artist to tell a story that fascinates. I do believe that soon millions of people will call themselves writers…

I asked myself this question after a dear friend died of pancreatic cancer only eight days after his initial diagnosis. The experience left me feeling empty and searching for purpose. I wrote DROP OUT as a way of dealing with the senselessness of it all. Writing the book allowed me to explore why we are here on this Earth and in this physical world. Since the story revolves around one man's loss after 9/11 I believe the book is even more relevant as the anniversary of that terrible day…

And so the waiting begins. The hurricane is coming. It’s always strange the denial people feel before a disaster hits, especially a day like today. Here in Pennsylvania, it’s a sunny, beautiful day. But I’m not fooled. I’ve been watching the weather channel and I know it’s coming. I know in 36 hours my life will be significantly changed if the storm gives us a direct hit. I’m not saying I’m going to lose my house or anything like that, though we may get some pretty serious storm damage, I’m…

     By now most people are aware that a hurricane is coming our way here on the east coast. I’m pretty safe in Pennsylvania, but I sympathize with those along the shore. I know it’s going to be a rough ride.

     Besides the wind, rain, hail, and destruction, there is something fascinating about watching Mother Nature unleash her wrath. It makes you think that with all our technology we’re still vulnerable when it comes to our environment. Perhaps, one day we will be able to…

     Finished my newest middle grade sci/fi novel, INSECTLAND yesterday and now it’s off to get its cover. I am using my usual ebook cover person, Judy Bullard. This is a book I started in January of 1997 and have been tweaking ever since. It’s funny how some novels can be written in a few months while others, like this one, can take years.

     Actually, I think I need to clarify something here. It didn’t take me this long to write the book, I actually wrote the book in four months…

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…

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…

     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…

Writer’s Workshops and Linda Spur

As well as belonging to three online critique groups, where I can post a chapter of my historical novels in progress and receive constructive critiques in return for critiquing other members’ chapters, I also belong to Watford Writers. Every Monday the society meets in Cassiobury Park, Watford, Hertfordshire, England at Cafe Cha Cha at 7.30 p.m.

From time to time Watford Writers arranges for guest speakers and…

     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…

     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…

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…