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Hostage to Passion is a Bestseller

Hostage to Passion actually hit a bestseller list today at Amazon Germany and is now No. 68 in a English language Kindle store for historical romances. Want proof? Look at this: Amazon Bestseller-Rang: #5.548 Bezahlt in Kindle-Shop (Siehe Top 100 … Continue reading

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A new release just in time for the holidays: The Spiked Death

Tomorrow (well, technically today) is Christmas Eve and in the next three days, plenty of people all over the world will be unwrapping brand-new e-readers under their Christmas trees. And of course, those e-readers will need to be filled with … Continue reading

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How SFnal is Spy Fiction?

The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin has a very insightful post about the connection between science fiction (and urban fantasy for that matter) and classic spy fiction, which draws on Darko Suvin‘s theory of cognitive estrangement, as outlined in Metamorphoses … Continue reading

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New Collection – Letters from the Dark Side

Just in time for Halloween, we at Pegasus Pulp proudly present Letters from the Dark Side, a collection of spooky short fiction. What makes Letters from the Dark Side different from other run-of-the-mill short fiction collections is that it is … Continue reading

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Flying Bombs heading for an e-book store near you

My retro-pulp hero, the Silencer, is back. Hardworking pulp writer by day and steel-masked vigilante by night, Richard Blakemore keeps Depression era New York City safe from all sorts of criminal low-lives. After being almost executed for a crime he … Continue reading

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Indie Publishing Links for the Day of German Unity

October 3 is the Day of German Unity, which commemorates the German reunification on October 3, 1990. Since it’s a fairly new holiday and one that never really had an emotional connection for many people (I explain why here), there … Continue reading

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Talk like a pirate, vote like a pirate, read like a pirate

Arr, it be International Talk like a Pirate Day and at least in Germany, pirates have gone respectable and even entered the Berlin city parliament, as I blogged yesterday. As for our political pirates, Der Spiegel, National Public Radio and … Continue reading

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Author versus Publisher – the Female Edition

In the past week, there have been some interesting developments in the field of author versus publisher conflicts with agents caught in the middle. All of the current conflicts involve female writers for some reason: A literary agent responds to … Continue reading

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New Release: Hostage to Passion

I have a new release to announce, Hostage to Passion, a historical novelette featuring pirates, battles at sea, swordfights, some ripped bodices, a five page sex scene and lots of romantic conflict. This is the first part of a two-part … Continue reading

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August Sales Figures and El Carnicero

First of all, it’s time for the August sales figures. In August 2011 I sold 9 e-books across all platforms, down from 15 in July. The detailed breakdown is as follows: Amazon US: 5 Amazon UK: 3 XinXii: 1 Those … Continue reading

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