Happy Halloween!

Trick or Treat? Your Choice.

Support Your Indie Bookstore - Buy An Ebook!

Let's help our local bookstores.

Panzer and I didn't know you could do this until we saw it at GalleyCAT. We discovered you can buy ebooks through local bookstores using your Kobo ereader.

Panzer and I are equal ereader ebook buyers. We buy from Amazon, Barnes and Noble's Nook store and the Kobo store. It is true, we have felt bad when we read about the closing of brick and mortar bookstores, but we couldn't get our ebooks there. But change is here.  Now, it turns out Kobo is ahead of the pack for helping keep local bookstores in business.

We've already been looking into the Kobo Writing Life site because we're considering publishing our ebooks directly through KWL in addition to Amazon's KDP and Smashwords. (We'll be doing a post on this later.) Finding out about their partnership with brick and mortar stores, makes our decision easier.

If you want to learn how to use your Kobo ereader to buy ebooks from your local bookstore and which bookstores are participating, tootle over to Buying Ebooks Through Your Local Indie Bookstore

National Cat Day

Today is National Cat Day in the United States!

Hug A Cat!

 

Free Scary Books for Halloween - GalleyCat

Scary Books!

Just in time for Halloween!

FREE Scary Books! Dracula! Vampyres! Ghosts! Monsters!

W-o-o-o-o!

To get yours, tootle over to Free Scary Books for Halloween - GalleyCat

Happy Cat Dance!

Woo hoo!

My bad boy is back in the Top 100!
#38 in Mystery-Anthologies
#42 in Mystery-Collections & Anthologies!

 
Happy Cat Dance! Happy Cat Dance!

Thank you all!

Win with Wattpad

$2,000? Mine!

Panzer and I were tootling around in the Catosphere today and stopped in at Lynn Viehl's Paperback Writer blog.

It seems like everybody (Panzer and me included!) has been talking about NaNoWriMo this year. Turns out Lynn is no different. She found out Wattpad will be holding a contest for NaNoWriMo participants. The winner will get $2,000.00!

So now we have free ebook covers and $2,000 in prize money. You can write 50,000 words in a month, right? Well, then you better hurry over and sign up for NaNoWriMo!

If you want to learn more about the Wattpad prize money, tootle over to Win with Wattpad

Nominate Your NaNoWriMo Novel for a Free Book Cover - GalleyCat

It's FREE!

Panzer found some news about this year's NaNoWriMo.

My bad boy says, if you're planning on taking part in NaNoWriMo, you'll want to read the announcement he found over at GalleyCAT.

You could win a FREE cover for your writing project! That's FREE! You will need to put together a synopsis for your project and then submit it for consideration. Then each day in November during NaNoWriMo one project will be chosen.

If you're interested, tootle over to Nominate Your NaNoWriMo Novel for a Free Book Cover - GalleyCat

Col Bury's New Crime Fiction

No cats?

Panzer and I stopped in at Col Bury's New Crime Fiction blog and boy are we glad we did.

We almost missed out on his FREE ebook offer! He's giving away FREE copies of his Manchester 6 ebook. This is a noir crime fiction collection. Be prepared: there are NO cats!

You'll have to hurry to take advantage of this offer. October 25 is the last day to get it FREE and then it goes back to full price.

Panzer says, "It would be nice if you wrote a review for Col after you finish reading Manchester 6!"

To get your FREE copy, tootle over to Col Bury New Crime Fiction.

12 Things That Will Get Your Book Review Request Turned Down

Don't. Don't. 12 times Don't.

Panzer stopped in at Riley Banks' blog The Writer's Shack today.

He found a post on how to ask for a book review. The post includes twelve things that are guaranteed to get a resounding "No!" to your request for a book review. Some are so simple Panzer knows none of you would ever do them. Like: Don't have a "sob story" about your mother's dying request. ... Or ... Don't Tweet your request for a review. There are ten more Don'ts. As a bonus the post includes a sample PDF How to Request a Book Review at the end

If you want to know what not to do when you ask for a review, tootle on over to 12 Things That Will Get Your Book Review Request Turned Down

Formatting for Kindle and Smashwords

No template yet? Why?

Panzer was in the Catosphere today and found something for all his writing friends.

Here's an easy little video from thriller author C.J. Lyons on how to format your manuscript for Smashwords and Kindle. Although she's using a Mac all of the steps will work in any Word document. The video covers some of the most frequent problems that cause ebook rejections from the Premium Catalog at Smashwords.

Panzer says, "By now you should be using a template to cut down on your formatting problems!"

If you want to see the video, tootle over to Preparing Your Document.