Dorian Box’s Writing and Publishing Blog
Finding Your Perfect Writing Atmosphere
By Dorian Box A friend asked where and how I like to write. “Let me guess,” she said. “With all the insanity in Psycho-Tropics, an asylum!” “Nope. Tried while I was there, but it was too noisy.” Just kidding. A wealth of articles and blog posts discuss how to create...
Using Personal Author-Reader Communication to Promote Your Indie Book
By Amy Holland, with Ian Sutherland, indie-publisher Developing a substantial following and readership is the ultimate task in marketing an indie book. There are tons of readers and potential readers out there, and how you communicate with them is extremely important....
Are Kindle Ad Campaigns Worth the Investment?
If you’re a self-published author and have a Kindle version of your book, you may have heard about a relatively new ad campaign service offered by Amazon Marketing Services as part of the KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) Select program. Here's how it works: 1. First,...
Indie Authors Need Hard Copy Paperbacks, Not Just E-Books
In my previous post, Are Self-Published Authors Who Publish E-Only Titles at a Disadvantage?, I discussed the benefits of making hard copies available. As with most worthwhile endeavors, though, coming up with a professional looking print book means extra work and...
Surfer Dad UK Reviews Psycho-Tropics
Check out these excerpts from the great review of Dorian Box's dark thriller, Psycho-Tropics from Andrew Norton, editor of Surfer Dad, Blog of a Wave Starved Father: Wouldn’t it be nice to win the lottery, surf all day and drink all night? Oh, and occasionally play...
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.