Monthly Archives: February 2015

A Bestseller in France

“He has come back to me…”, a collection of two interconnected science fiction shorts about two sister and their encounters with aliens,  is one of our less popular titles. However, it has now hit several subgenre bestseller lists at Amazon … Continue reading

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Indie Speculative Fiction of the Month for Feburary 2015

It’s that time of the month again, time for “Indie Speculative Fiction of the Month”. So what is “Indie Speculative Fiction of the Month”? It’s a round-up of speculative fiction by indie authors newly published this month, though some January … Continue reading

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Seraglio is a bestseller in Italy

Seraglio is one of our perennially most popular titles. It frequently hangs out on a sub-subgenre bestseller list at Amazon.com and has now also hit two top 100 lists at Amazon Italy. Posizione nella classifica Bestseller di Amazon: #2.297 a … Continue reading

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New Shattered Empire novella available: Partners in Crime

It’s been a while (December in fact) since our last new release announcement, but I’ll make up for that with three new release coming up in February. Let’s start with a new entry in my Shattered Empire space opera series: … Continue reading

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Seedlings hits a bestseller list

On the eve of the release of Partners in Crime, the next novella in the Shattered Empire series (quite literally – I’m only waiting for the book to go live at some of the slower vendors), Seedlings, a previous volume … Continue reading

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A holiday bestseller in February

The lesbian holiday romance Christmas Eve at the Purple Owl Café has not yet been our for two months and is already one of our bestselling titles overall. And in spite of the holiday theme, the story continues to sell, … Continue reading

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New Twitter promo images

Inspired by Elizabeth Ann West, I decided to make some Twitter ad banners for my books, starting with the Shattered Empire and the Silencer series. Here are the images for the Shattered Empire series. The background is a spacy stock … Continue reading

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Amazon versus Thalia revisited or Why brick and mortar bookstores are losing customers?

Two year ago on this blog, I compared the quality of service and particularly delivery speed of Amazon and Thalia.de, the online store of Germany’s biggest bookstore chain. Back then, Amazon won that comparison hands down and indeed I only … Continue reading

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