My recent promotion of Alien Bonds did pretty well. I gave away close to 2,000 Kindle copies. People often ask me, why do authors make boo...

First, Happy Valentine's Day! I hope someone gave you a valentine. Second, if you're not familiar with ebook promotional newslett...

This one is for other authors, as it's about giving away books. Why would anyone give away their books? Well, if you write in a series,...

UPDATE:   The links are back! It must have been a glitch. A useful marketing  took for authors is Amazon's product giveaway. Anyone wi...

I've been running two promotions this month, one to advertise that Turnabout is only 99¢ (for a few days only) and one to advertise that...

I recently used an Amazon feature called "Hosting a giveaway." If you look at the product page of a book, below the reviews and ju...

Read an eBook Week starts Sunday, March 5, 2017, and in honor of that Smashwords is running a huge promotion. A lot of ebooks are on sale,...

I write science fiction and fantasy, and I often include a love story or two in my books. I like to set stories in the far future so tha...

I occasionally blog about book promotion , especially in reference to free books, but also about how hard it is to get a book in front of fo...

I ran two more promotions recently, to advertise The Sixth Discipline being free. That book is always free, but the Amazon numbers...

Amazon lets anyone host a giveaway of any print book sold by Amazon. If you look on the product page of a book, you'll see the icon righ...

Harder than you might think. I have been selling my books as ebooks since 2011. I have seven novels and one novella available as ebooks, and...

Updated to show this is now free on Amazon , too!  It's actually not that easy to give away an ebook, at least not via a vendor site. ...

The Sixth Discipline is now free in the  Spanish Kindle store ! I'm not sure why, but I suspect someone clicked the link to tell Amazon...

In an earlier post  about my use of a BookBub promotion  back in May, I mentioned that I was guessing that Apple didn't seem to report h...

The one drawback to using Smashwords as a portal to other retailers ( iBooks store and the Nook store are my biggest non-Kindle markets, ...

It seems like Amazon is on a mission! They have made The Sixth Discipline free in the UK Kindle store . That means it's now free in the...

Good news, eh? The Sixth Discipline has been  free in in the US Kindle store since August (due to price matching) but now Amazon has made i...

BookBub is a new service that lists both free and reduced price ebooks, available on Kindle and other platforms. They charge authors a (ver...

Happy May Day! My alternate history/science fiction novel KING OF TREES will be free in the Kindle store TODAY ONLY (May 1)! This is the...