Monthly Archives: April 2014

It’s been a whirlwind of week, with strange happenings and forward progress. We started the week, with our Mom Nancy on vacation and Eric and Anne holding down their home fronts in Oregon and Namibia while our free promotional giveaway … Continue reading →

Dear Friends and Readers, We feel it is necessary to warn our readers and would-be readers that a prominent malware organization is attempting to infect computers using our book, Cold Prairie, as a lure. The organization posted a Youtube video … Continue reading →

Authors live and die by their reviews. Oh, there are other things that can kill a writing career but nothing with as much impact as reader reviews or lack thereof. In the absence of a review, a reader is taking … Continue reading →

It’s Kindle free promotion time again! This time, we’re giving away free e-book copies of Exiles of Gaia, our H.R. Olsen science fiction novel set in our New Mother Earth universe. The promotion starts tomorrow, April 18, 2014 and runs … Continue reading →

We ask this question because there is a fine line between marketing our books and becoming just plain annoying to those who know and love us. We’d hate to get dropped from our family and friends’ social media feeds for … Continue reading →

If you read all the blog posts, writing columns and general good advice floating out there, they’ll all tell you that in today’s world, self-publishing is free. Technically, that is true and you can put your book up on Amazon … Continue reading →

What do these three things have in common? They all involve a certain level of satisfaction and pain. Today, we’ll talk about marketing. When we started writing, we first went the traditional route: researching publishers of our genres, excel spreadsheets … Continue reading →