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...
Book Review and Interview: Spark, by Rupert Dreyfus
By Amy Holland Transgressive fiction writer Rupert Dreyfus, from England, made two strong new fans in the U.S. recently as both I and Dorian Box (author of Psycho-Tropics) read his debut novel, Spark. Full of dark humor, insane plot twists, and quirky characters—just...