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A Note to Our Australian Readers

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Cora

Yesterday, Amazon opened a Kindle store in Australia. This is good news for Australian readers and for Australian writers like Andrea K. Höst, Patty Jansen, C.J. Archer and David Adams, who can now get paid via EFT rather than the … Continue reading →

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Yet More Bestsellerdom

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Cora

The newly introduced subcategories for historical fiction (see this post for more) have catapulted yet another of my titles onto an Amazon.com category bestseller list, for Under the Knout has made it into the top 25 works of historical fiction … Continue reading →

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“Thirty Years to Life” is a bestseller in Canada

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Cora

Amazon Canada has never been a big market for me ever since they opened their Kindle store some time ago. Most of my Canadian sales come via Kobo or at least used to before the recent unpleasantness. However, Thirty Years … Continue reading →

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Seraglio hits an Amazon.com bestseller list

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Cora

Seraglio has been my bestselling title for a while now, though unlike many others, it has never hit a category bestseller list, at least not on Amazon.com. The reason is that Seraglio was not in a small subcategory, but in … Continue reading →

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Kindle spotted at Media Markt

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Cora

First of all, I’ve got a plug, for the good folks at DriveThruFiction are currently offering the Read and Feed America 2013 charity bundle, which collects more than thirty e-books from various, including my own Countdown to Death. You get … Continue reading →

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Ideological book formatting and the NDR discovers e-books

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Cora

First of all, I was interviewed today by erotic romance writer Clarissa Wild, so come on over and say hello. Here is a cautionary tale about hiring external help to bring your e-book to market. The religion-critical site Pantheos reports … Continue reading →

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A bestseller right out of the gate

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Cora

My brand-new story Love in the Times of the Macrobiotic Müsli has only been published for a few days and has already hit a bestseller list at Amazon Germany. Well, it was always clear to me that this story would … Continue reading →

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The E-Book Revolution and the P-word

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Cora

At The Atlantic, Noah Berlatzky takes on the problem of erotica e-books being big moneymakers on the one hand, but something of an embarrassment for many retailers on the other. He also addresses the recent problem of Amazon randomly filtering … Continue reading →

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Mixed E-Book Links of Interest

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Cora

For starters, the indie versus trad publishing or maybe both debate is still going on (and will probably be for a while yet). SF writer Tobias Buckell cautions writers eager to jump into indie publishing that the big successes like … Continue reading →

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A German Bestseller

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Cora

Unter der Knute, the German edition of Under the Knout, has edged onto the category bestseller list for German language short fiction at Amazon DE at No. 92. Nr. 92 in Kindle-Shop > eBooks > Belletristik > Kurzgeschichten & Anthologien It … Continue reading →

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