Audiobooks Read By You: VIDEO - GalleyCat

Hee! Hee! Hee!

Panzer wants to know, are you thinking about doing an audiobook? Are you planning to read your own work? Or maybe hire someone to do it?

My bad boy found a link to a Youtube video over at GalleyCAT to give you insight into the process and a laugh at the same time.

If you want to find out how not to do an audiobook, tootle over to Audiobooks Read By You: VIDEO - GalleyCat

A Panzerism

Panzer says:

Push the cat? I don't think so.

There I was snoozing on a warm keyboard,
when Mom's Pirate told me to, "Get down."
He pushed me off the desk!

I was shocked; shocked I tell you!

I wonder of he'll be shocked, when he finds what
I put down in his running shoes.

How to sell loads of books

450,000 books sold? MeHow?

Panzer went over to visit author extraordinaire Russell Blake's blog today.

You've heard of suspense writer Russell Blake, right? He's the author who wrote 22 books in 30 months. He's also the author who has sold 450,000 books! So, when Panzer learned about Blake's post How to sell loads of books (a big Panzer "Thank You" to Joanna Penn for the link), he took the Panzermobile right over. The post is actually a list of 26 things you can do to sell your books.

If you need some ideas and encouragement to increase your book sales, tootle over to How to sell loads of books

Panzer parked the Panzermobile over at The Future of Ink today. In a guest post Lou Bortone reviews five video tools.

Panzer wants you to definitely check out these tools. You can do video in your emails. You can accept video from your friends and visitors to your site. You can do animations. Or you can set up your own television studio.

If you want to check out these video tools, tootle over to Five Video Tools

Forbes Magazine Names Smashwords to 2014 List of America's Most Promising Companies

Most Promising Company!

Panzer is doing the Happy Cat Dance for his friends over at Smashwords.

Mark Coker announced on the Smashwords Blog that the company made the Forbes Magazine's 2014 list of America's Most Promising Companies. Smashwords is number 69 on the list. Each year Forbes produces their list based on growth, market size, and other criteria.

If you want to read the whole announcement, tootle over to Forbes Magazine Names Smashwords to 2014 List of America's Most Promising Companies

How to Publish Your Book: INFOGRAPHIC - GalleyCat

You're doing this instead of writing?

Having trouble writing your book? Trouble editing it? Publishing it?

Panzer was over at GalleyCAT and found an infographic that will explain it all to you. Click on the infographic to enlarge it and read all the reasons you aren't publishing that book.

To find out what's stopping you, tootle over to How to Publish Your Book: INFOGRAPHIC - GalleyCat

Avon College Romance Novel Writers Contest

Hmmm. 50 pages. I can do that.

Are you a writer? Do you write romance novels? Are you a college student? If you answered yes to all three of these questions, Panzer found a site for you.

He stopped in at the Paperback Writer blog today. Lynn Viehl posted about a romance novel writing contest for college students being sponsored by Avon Books. You'll have to hurry and get your novel written. You'll need the first 50 pages of your novel and a synopsis to enter. The contest ends April 1.

If you're interested in reading the rules, tootle over to for College Romance Writers.

20 Free Resources For A Simple Ebook

PDF Publishing?

Are you ready to put together your own PDF ebook?

Panzer was out in the Catosphere and stopped in at LifeHack site. He found a treasure trove of FREE resources there in a post by Loralee Hutton for those of you ready to jump into the PDF publishing world.

There are tools at Lifehack for organizing your ideas, putting together your outline, using Powerpoint, and converting to the PDF format. Each of them is included in a list with a description of their use and a link to their site.

Why PDF? Because you can sell your ebook from your own site or give it away. Either way you are building your following for your Kindle, Nook or Kobo ebooks.

If you're interested in doing a PDF ebook, tootle over to Create Simple Ebook

MWA Edgar Nominees Announced

No indies?

Panzer was out in the Catosphere today and found some Happy Cat news at the Publishers Weekly site.

He wants everyone to know this years' MWA nominees for the Edgar novel category.

Best Novel

Sandrine’s Case by Thomas H. Cook (Grove Atlantic – The Mysterious Press)

The Humans by Matt Haig (Simon & Schuster)

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Simon & Schuster – Atria Books)

How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)

Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin (Hachette Book Group – Reagan Arthur Books)

Until She Comes Home by Lori Roy (Penguin Group USA – Dutton Books)

If you're interested in the nominees in all categories, tootle over to 2014 Edgar Nominees Announced

Copyrighted Books Go Online For Free In Norway

135,000 books? All FREE?

Panzer was over at The Telegraph and read an interesting article by Martin Chilton.

According to Mr. Chilton the National Library of Norway is going to make 135,000 digital books available online FREE. These are copyright protected books and the authors will be paid for the books. The authors include, Stephen King, Jo Nesbo and Ken Follett among others.

To read more, tootle over to Books Go Online For Free In Norway