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Publishers Weekly Reviews Psycho-Tropics
Publishers Weekly reviewed Psycho-Tropics in its October 26, 2015 issue. Here's a link to the review. The notice came with a letter saying "[o]f the hundreds of self-published titles received each month, only a handful of the very best are selected for review." ...
Writer’s Digest Award for Psycho-Tropics!
Excited to hear the news that Psycho-Tropics received an Honorable Mention Award from Writer's Digest as part of the legendary magazine's 23rd annual Self-Published Book Awards. Psycho-Tropics was recognized in the Genre Fiction category. This year's awards haven't...
Amazon “Ratings vs. Reviews,” A Contradiction that Matters
They’re part of our ("our" being authors, publishers, and publicists) livelihood. Hopes and goals depend on them to a very real extent. We obsess over the ones we already have. We obsess over the ones we're still waiting to get. I'm talking, of course, about the...
Analysis of a Kindle Sales Promotion
Andrew Diamond, author of an outrageously funny new private eye caper called Warren Lane, detailed his recent experiment using various Kindle sales promotions outlets and techniques to promote the book in a new blog post, Summary of an E-Book Promotion. This post is...
Time to Abolish Semicolons?
By Dorian Box It happened suddenly, too many years of deleting semicolons that editors substituted for periods. I was nearing the end of page edits for a recent article, converting the hundredth new semicolon back to a period, when it hit me: "Enough already with the...
The Hiding Girl (Emily Calby Book 1)
Twelve-year-old Emily Calby was a good girl from a religious family in rural Georgia. She loved softball, her little sister and looking up words to get her allowance. Then two men came and murdered her family. Somehow Emily escaped. Only the killers know she survived. On the run in a fugue, she makes an unlikely ally in a ruthless former gang member who takes her in. Overwhelmed by guilt, she persuades him to train her to kill before setting out alone on a terrifying search for justice. Nothing will stop her—not cops or creeps, not even her own splintering mind. Through it all, Emily fights to hold onto hope and the girl she once knew, kept buried deep inside. A testament to the boundless limits of love, sacrifice and the will to survive, The Hiding Girl is the first book in the multi-award-winning Emily Calby Series.