By JA Marlow, on January 26th, 2012 2012 is a year of many changes. Not only am I writing and revising more than ever, I’m also looking back on what I did in 2011 to see if I can make it better. Specifically the stories already out there.
I’m in the slow and detailed process of getting several books ready for print. [...]
By JA Marlow, on January 25th, 2012 Tracy Hickman related a very moving story about an encounter while at a book signing. He also discuses the subject of why an author writes. It’s a fudge under 10 minutes, and a wonderful story. Bring the hankies and take a listen.
It is located on the Superstars Writing Seminar front page. Scroll down just [...]
By JA Marlow, on January 10th, 2012 I’m guest blogging today for VG Ford, a writer friend and fellow member of the wonderful writing site of Forward Motion. Come on by, enjoy a little chat about this new year of 2012, and leave a comment!
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Enjoy!
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By JA Marlow, on December 31st, 2011 2011 Business Plan in Review
Start up publishing company
Check! Doing it was easy. Finding a name for the publishing company was hard. It took almost two months of thinking, putting up ideas on a dry-erase board, and researching domain names before I settled on “Star Catcher Publishing.”
Set up Distribution and Retailer Accounts
Again, [...]
By JA Marlow, on December 21st, 2011 Wow, it’s amazing what a year can do to plans. Way back in December 2009 I created a business plan for writing which included writing and submitting multiple novels to publishers in order to increase the odds of hitting the right editor at the right time. 2010 increased the writing, and also took advantage of [...]
By JA Marlow, on December 16th, 2011 With ebooks we run into one very big difficulty: reader understanding how long or short a story is.
Some retailers understand this dilemma. On Omnilit and All Romance eBooks, there is a field in which to put the the word count of the work. Smashwords estimates the word count of the entire ebook when it [...]
By JA Marlow, on December 9th, 2011 Amazon has announced a special ebook lending library for Prime subscribers. In the past several days they have sent emails out to the authors and publishers who use their KDP platform inviting them to join.
“We’re excited to introduce KDP Select – a new option dedicated to KDP authors and publishers worldwide, featuring a fund [...]
By JA Marlow, on December 4th, 2011 “I want to smash my all-time Nano high word count of 160,605 from 2009. Can I do it?”
The verdict for 2011 “National Novel Writing Month“?
The 2009 record has been broken!
Bad news: it was broken by more of a whimper than a smash.
For the first part of the month the writing [...]
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J.A. Marlow Science fiction writer who loves great plots, interesting characters, exotic locales accompanied by a sense of wonder with an optimistic ending.
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Available Ebook Formats The works of J.A. Marlow are available in a wide number of formats including DRM-Free. Below is a list of the primary retailers the various formats can be found at, but do not include Kobo, Sony, Diesel, Drive Thru Scifi, and others.
Mobi (Kindle compatible): Amazon, Omnilit/All Romance Ebooks, Smashwords, Xinxii
Epub (Nook compatible): Barnes & Noble, Omnilit/All Romance Ebooks, Smashwords, Xinxii, iBookstore
PDF: Omnilit/All Romance Ebooks, Smashwords, Xinxii
Palm DOC/iSolo (Palm compatible): Omnilit/All Romance Ebooks, Smashwords
RTF (Rich Text Format): Smashwords
LRF (Older Sony Reader format): Smashwords
Plain Text: Smashwords
Online Reading (HTML): Smashwords
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