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Neil Ostroff's Blog – January 2014 Archive (4)

A thousand thank you’s

Wow! Another great review for DROP OUT.  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005FX0K7U   I never expected the book to have such an impact. Thanks to all who have written to tell me how much the book has affected them.

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Added by Neil Ostroff on January 30, 2014 at 12:53pm — No Comments

My KDP story

Exactly three years ago today, I first discovered Kindle Direct Publishing while desperately searching for a new agent to represent my books. A few weeks prior, I parted ways with my then agent, a powerful New Yorker with dozens of big sales under his belt. Leaving the agency was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done and the lowest point in my twenty years of continuous writing, but I immediately saw potential in KDP as a way to get my books out into the…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on January 29, 2014 at 12:10pm — No Comments

Will people still read?

I watched a television special the other morning highlighting the electronics show in Las Vegas and what new products are being launched this year. Some of them were absolutely amazing, like glasses that project images right onto your eyeballs and gaming devices that the user controls with their own muscle movements instead of using their hands. These new devices led me to think about the future of my craft; writing.

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Added by Neil Ostroff on January 13, 2014 at 1:15pm — No Comments

Write and get rich!

Yesterday, I watched a morning news segment highlighting a couple who were about to lose their house due to foreclosure and how publishing and selling their books on Amazon had saved them. The authors went on to explain that they write romance novels together and once they realized the popularity of the genre due to the success of Fifty Shades of Gray, wrote feverishly producing more than twenty novels in six months. Quite a feat, I might add.…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on January 2, 2014 at 11:52am — No Comments

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