Check out my books on sale at the Smashwords Summer Sale. Still time for Summer reading!
Book 1 (Free) -> http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/283362
Book 2 (50% Off) -> http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/283953
Book 3 (50% Off) -> http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/296581
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After nine months, I am finally going to be the guest author on Will’s Indie Books Show on BlogTalkRadio tomorrow. I hope you will listen at 11 AM Eastern, or listen later from the archives. It’s also available as an iTunes podcast as are all of Will’s past shows.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/indiebooks/2014/06/27/indie-books-show-41
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/indie-books-blog-talk-radio/id719075685
A couple of days ago, my husband showed me an article about how LeVar Burton was using KickStarter to try to bring Reading Rainbow back for every child, everywhere. This KickStarter has a goal of developing an online platform for accessing Reading Rainbow content everywhere and providing it for free to disadvantaged schools. I am so excited about this campaign. As an elementary school librarian and media specialist, this is great news. But it’s just as great for all writers and authors. You see, if we are to have an audience for our writing, it seems to me that we need to foster the love of reading in all children for they are, or will be, our current or future audience. As a teacher, librarian and an author, I encourage you to consider lending your support to this KickStarter campaign.
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I’ve been so busy with writing, I totally forgot and missed posting about this review when it first came out.
Review: Immortal Reborn: Arianna’s Choice by Natalie D. Wilson.
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I’m a proud member of Clean Indie Reads and it’s our anniversary! To celebrate, we’re having a sale. Many books are FREE, many others (including my first) are just 99¢. It’s officially a one-day sale set for May 20th, but some books may already be reduced. Head on over (using the link below) and take a look!
http://cleanindiereads.blogspot.com/2014/05/anniversary-sale.html
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Help the National MS Society by donating.
Will and I have donated to help this young lady reach her goal to help the National MS Society by riding her bicycle 150 miles. Please help if you can. Any amount can help. CLICK HERE TO DONATE
I hadn’t given much thought to Scribd and Oyster until recently. If you are not familiar with these services, they have been compared to Netflix in that paying a monthly fee offers the subscriber the opportunity to read as many books as they like. Having my books on Smashwords brought these distribution options over the last few months. As part of their deal with Smashwords, I received a free year subscription to Scribd. Will and I downloaded the app and immediately searched to find my books there.
I can’t help but think this is a good thing for indies as each avenue that opens up for us to get more readers should help us to build a fan base. I do wonder, though, what this type of thing means for books/ebooks in general. As I understand it, an author gets paid if/when someone reads over a certain percentage of a book, doesn’t seem like a bad deal. Not much different than offering a free sample, or similar. Would you be willing to pay a monthly fee to read books? If you haven’t read my books, I know they are on Scribd, they are also supposed to be on Oyster. I think both services have a free trial. I’d love to hear your thoughts about such services and I would certainly be honored to hear your thoughts if you choose to try my books this way.
Happy Reading!
Natalie
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Earlier today, I had the treat of seeing the original episode of Carl Sagan’s COSMOS which featured the Library of Alexandria. It has been years since I’ve watched this and I had honestly forgotten just how much his computer generated library was like the one I always envision when I write about my character Alexandria.
I’m a huge fan of Sagan’s original series and if you like to ponder the universe and all its complexities like I do, then I hope you will join me in tuning in to the NEW COSMOS with Neil deGrasse Tyson tonight.
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I hope you will have a chance to come out and meet the authors at the Third Annual Augusta Literary Festival
on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at the Augusta Public Library, 823 Telfair Street, Augusta, GA 30901. You can get all the details here:
http://www.augustaliteraryfestival.org/
Book signings will take place from 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM and at 3:00 PM I, along with Jessica Hawke, & Alicia Michaels will be featured in a panel discussion: The Mind of the Fantasy Writer
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