Last week, as part of my continuing series Self-Pub 101, I wrote about some of the lessons I had learned during the process of self-publishing my fiction. This week I’m continuing with specifically the pricing and marketing lessons I’ve learned. (Warning: This is a Very Long Blog Post.) Pricing One …
I’m pleased to announce that my epic fantasy novella Sow the Wind is now available for Amazon Kindle! I’ll also have print editions available soon. Synopsis Eighteen-year-old Gabriel Malnythe should be training for his inheritance as a warrior nobleman. Instead, he dreams of entering the clergy and devoting his life to philosophy. …
This is the third in a series of blog posts where I talk about my experiences with self-publishing and learning how to be an indie author. This post in particular was prompted by a question my friend J asked me: “Did you learn anything publishing Stormsinger that you’ll do differently …
I read a lot of blogs. Fortunately a lot of those blogs are things I first stumbled on in the course of my day jobs (which involve lots of social media marketing), and I can still make a good case for reading them at work. I use Feedly to aggregate all …
I’m super excited! In a couple of weeks I’ll have a novella, To Sow the Wind, available in a different world than the Storms in Amethir series, and just this week I got the final art from my phenomenal artist, Phuoc Quan! I’m going to tease you all with a glimpse of the art:
Stay tuned for more information! To Sow the Wind has a planned publication date of August 3–and if you sign up for my newsletter here, you’ll be the first to see the full cover when it’s ready!
Everyone loves getting a free book, right? Well, what about lots of free books? Even better! So get your mouse-clicking finger in shape and check out Digital Book Day this coming Monday! Author CJ Lyons decided it was time to free the Bastille books for a day, so she organized Digital Book …
I have two events scheduled for this coming Saturday, so if you’re anywhere in central Indiana, you can swing by a couple of places to get a copy of Stormshadow and have it signed by yours truly! Local Author Fair, 10 am – noon Crawfordsville District Public Library 205 S. Washington Street …
I’ve mentioned before how I sort of fell accidentally into the self-publishing world. (Or, more accurately, how Laura VanArendonk Baugh pushed me into the self-publishing world.) I’ve never really talked about why I made the decision to go for it, what resources I used, what I wish I’d known beforehand, …
I’m excited to be giving away two copies of Stormshadow on Goodreads! Make sure you enter to win a copy! Goodreads Book Giveaway Stormshadow by Stephanie Cain Giveaway ends July 01, 2014. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win
I recently had a Twitter conversation with Nat Russo and Jackson Dean Chase about Campaign Cartographer 3, which reminded me that I’ve been meaning to post maps of Amethir and other countries in my Storms in Amethir series. (I’ve been meaning to do that since Laura VanArendonk Baugh and I had a mapping …
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