Pre-order for books is a fairly new tactic, now wholeheartedly embraced by Amazon, iBooks, Smashword and other on-line sellers. My newest Zack Tolliver, FBI novel Under Desert Sand will be placed on pre-order at Amazon.com immediately after Easter. In this article I will discuss what I feel are the advantages and disadvantages of using pre-order … Continue reading Why Pre-sale?
Author: Rich
A Conference just for Indie Writers
The free on-line conference for indie writers and publishers, Indie Fringe, is coming around again. It happens at ten Saturday morning March 18. This is one of the best resources you never heard of. Again, it's absolutely free. You do need to register, but that takes seconds. They just want your name and Email. Did … Continue reading A Conference just for Indie Writers
Crunching The Numbers
As the old year wanes, the time has come to evaluate my book sales and learn from the data, hopefully to improve sales in 2017. Many charts and graphs are available to authors through the auspices of various retailers and distributors. In part, because these businesses must keep the data for their own purposes, in … Continue reading Crunching The Numbers
Changing Genre Midstream
As writer and reader I've noticed few authors write in more than one genre. I wondered why. An author of a crime mystery series, I decided to try another category of writing. In so doing, I think I may have learned the answer to my question. It is not about ability so much as expectations, … Continue reading Changing Genre Midstream
New Location for Serialized Story (link on main page)
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Can You Maintain Your Identity As A Writer?
It's all right there––in your head. Your dream project, your book. You know what you will say in it, you know what it will look like. You begin to write, it grows page by page, chapter by chapter. One day it is finished. Soon you will find a way to publish it. But ask yourself: … Continue reading Can You Maintain Your Identity As A Writer?
Blue Halls IV
(It will be recalled Mr. Tasker expected to learn during young Buckminster's next guitar lesson the identity of the bullies tormenting him; but the boy never appeared.) The growing swell of nervous, anxious, angry conversations ended abruptly with the arrival of the Headmaster. He was a large man, portly, his appearance altogether fitting for … Continue reading Blue Halls IV
BLUE HALLS (Part III)
Copyright©️2016 R Lawson Gamble. All rights to this work are reserved. No part of this work may be used or reproduced in part or in whole in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author. In this work I describe actual locations and authentic time frames and global events. The characters, however, are fictional … Continue reading BLUE HALLS (Part III)
Blue Halls Two
(THE BLUE HALLS second segment) Connor Philips Buckminster III was in every way a natural victim, with round pudgy face and folds of soft flesh overflowing a worn leather belt cinched too tight, the excess dangling over khaki trousers creased in various planes unintended by any manufacturer, smudged with grey-brown matter best left unidentified. He … Continue reading Blue Halls Two
A Cautionary Tail
I am moved to write this brief caution in reaction to the disappointment some reviewers express when my novels take an unexpected (to them) turn at the end. On my author page at Amazon, in my bio and description I have tried to make it clear that the evil Zack Tolliver and Eagle Feather encounter … Continue reading A Cautionary Tail
