Category Archives: ebooks

Indie promotion – Black Sacrament

Dear reader, It is Monday, and Autumn has arrived. A good moment for this week’s Indie Promotion: Black Sacrament part 1 of the Creatures of Fire Serial by J. B. Brooklin Ebook Short Description: It shouldn’t have happened. It was impossible. And still, she had seen him, although he was invisible to the eyes of humans. Sariel Baldwin, orphan and niece of… (more…)


Macmillan Reportedly Ready to Test Library eBook Pilot

Via TheDigitalReader: Macmillan has long been on one the major publishers who has completely refused to sell ebooks to libraries but it looks like that might have changed. News is breaking today that the publisher is working on some type of pilot program which will finally bring Macmillan ebooks to US public libraries. Details are vague, but that will not… (more…)


APG Indie Promotion

Dear reader, It is Monday again, so I present to you: today’s Indie Promotion: Dead Men Tell No Tales by Alexandria Publishing Group author Jeffrey Kosh Ebook Short Description: The Caribbean Sea, 1708 AD. War between the Northern Alliance and the League of the Antilles is well underway. In the New World, what is left of humanity fights for dominance and… (more…)


Glass Block is out!

Dear reader, A new book emerges from the vaults of the Alexandria Publishing Group, this one from the hand of Kai Wilson-Viola. The title, as you guessed, is “Glass Block”. When Big Brother fell out of popularity in the early part of the 21st century it was replaced with ever more ‘realistic’ reality TV shows, till the need for this… (more…)


APG Indie Promotion

Dear reader, It is Monday again, so I present to you: today’s Indie Promotion: Irish Fling by Alexandria Publishing Group author Valerie Douglas Ebook Short Description: At a crossroads in her life and career, orphaned Alli Dearborn had always been the smart one. With near perfect recall, she accomplished a lot in a very short time. A meteoric rise led… (more…)


Authors Behaving Badly; Booksellers Behaving Worse

In the past couple months I’ve posted a few times about things authors shouldn’t do like respond before you understand the situation, be pushy on Twitter, and send dunning letters to book bloggers.  I have another regrettable tale of misdeeds today, only this time the author was the lesser of the problems. Self-published authors need to be forward to get… (more…)


The APG freebies – they are coming

Dear reader, Just a reminder about the free books by four APG writers that will be available from the 14th until the 16th of September: The coming storm by Valerie Douglas Magnus Opum by Jonathan Gould The Shadowbearer by Terry Simpson Cataclysm by Stephen H. King Have you made your choice yet? Or are you going to get all of… (more…)


APG Freebies are coming

Dear reader, Several writers from the Alexandria Publishing Group will have books for free over the weekend from September 14-16. Among those are: The coming storm by Valerie Douglas Elon of Aerilann, Elven advisor to the High King of Men, helped negotiate the treaty between Elves, Dwarves and men. He suddenly finds that fragile truce threatened from without by an… (more…)


Indie promotion

Dear Reader, I present to you: today’s Indie Promotion. Simply because it’s Monday again. Time of My Life by Lynn Murphy Ebook Short Description: But for a twist of fate Evan Jones and Derious Cooper might never have met. Derious is an African American teenager on the fringes of gang activities . Evan is a wealthy white doctor and a former… (more…)


If you like fantasy novels…

Dear reader, Something wonderful is happening to one of the books brought forth by the Alexandria Publishing Group: Song of the Fairy Queen, written by Valerie Douglas, is still in Amazon.com’s top 100 of Epic Fantasy. If you have not read the book and you like fantasy, I can recommend it. (Interested already? Click here.) And since you are reading… (more…)