Boo!

Halloween is here!

Happy Halloween everyone! How could a blog partly devoted to all things horror not post something today?

Here’s a few of my favourite Halloween morsels:

• 21 Wikipedia pages that will make it impossible for you to sleep
• 5 Supernaturally Spooky Stories from the Depths of the Internet
• The horror of Rupert and Bambi
• The film that frightened me the most
• Horror daycare
• Terrifying GIFs
• The top 10 monsters in art
• 10 best horror movies
• Mary Shelly on Frankenstein
• Scary stories
• Scary paintings
• Shameless plug

Basics | David Gaughran

Here is Dave Gaughran’s excellent guide to self-publishing basics. As I’ve said before though, I don’t think it is necessary to be quite so wary of publishing services businesses as long as you employ some good sense in your dealings with them and do your research first. My experience with the eBook Partnership has been positive, for example, and I think it is an option worth considering for people like me who don’t have much spare time on their hands.

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Thinking Inside The Box: Building Audience With Bundles

Some nice box sets available from Dave’s post – check it out.

David Gaughran

After my marketing post last month, I promised a follow up on box sets. In fact, I’ve gone one better and invited Phoenix Sullivan to do a guest post on the topic.

Today is perfect timing actually because we have just launched SINS OF THE PAST: 5 Historical Novels of Mystery, War and Adventure – just 99c at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Kobo (Apple soon!):

For those that don’t know Phoenix, she’s a self-published author who also runs her own publishing company – Steel Magnolia Press – together with romance author Jennifer Blake. In the last 18 months, Phoenix has also been experimenting with box sets and, as you will see below, the results have been astounding.

I’ve known Phoenix for a while and no-one knows more about Amazon’s algorithms and marketing e-books. When she invited me to participate – along with bestselling authors Denise Domning, N. Gemini Sasson, Monique Martin, and Michael Wallace…

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X-Men: Days of Future Past

Awesome. Just… awesome.