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March 11, 2015

Amazing Marketing Secrets: The two-for-the-price-of-a-half Quantity Discount

As the number of banana slicers increases without bound, the price asymptotically approaches zero.

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March 5, 2015

Honest reviews appreciated (and here’s where to leave them)

Thanks to those who have listened to or read The Musubi Murder. Here are some quick links to leave reviews, if you've finished The Musubi Murder and haven't reviewed it yet. No spoilers please! Goodreads / Amazon / Powell's / Audible / iTunes Be the first to learn about promotions, events, and new releases:

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February 26, 2015

Uh-oh. I just discovered BookBub.

It has three million subscribers and growing. @JimKukral and Bryan Cohen (@bryancohenbooks) of the Sell More Books Podcast have a running joke about all of the free advertising they do for BookBub on their show. What is it? Basically, it's an author's dream mailing list. BookBub sends notice of free or discounted ebooks to its database …

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February 24, 2015

Congratulations to A.M., winner of the first Goodreads giveaway of The Musubi Murder

Congratulations to A.M, who was the lucky Goodreads Giveaway winner out of 815 entries.

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February 13, 2015

Auto-populating a Blogspot blog with WordPress posts

So I've set up my Wordpress blog, and I'm pretty happy with it (except for the fact that their restrictions on iframes and javascript means no cool Amazon or Zazzle widgets). My WP posts automatically post to Facebook, Tumblr, and Google+. But what about Blogger, Google's blog publishing tool? My Gmail address automatically entitles me to a Blogspot site, and I …

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January 12, 2015

Award-winning indie filmmaker Darrell Gabonia is doing the book trailer for The Musubi Murder!

This is not going to be your ordinary book trailer. Darrell Gabonia of The Kellogg's Network and DorkCore fame will be taking on The Musubi Murder as his first book trailer project. Darrell is a writer and filmmaker from Hilo, Hawaii. After graduating from the Academy of Art University San Francisco, he spent a couple of years …

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January 9, 2015

The Author Platform

It is a truth universally acknowledged that whether traditionally published or independent, authors need a Platform.

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January 5, 2015

I’m big with the baffling-kitchen-accessory crowd, apparently.

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The Musubi Murder hardcover edition is available for preorder on Amazon right now. Fortunately(?) the market intelligence is already accumulating. Frankie Bow’s first novel, THE MUSUBI MURDER , is available at Audible.com, Amazon.com, andiTunes. BE THE FIRST TO LEARN ABOUT PROMOTIONS, EVENTS, AND NEW RELEASES:

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January 3, 2015

Does this outfit make me look readable? Author photos and genre

What is the purpose of an author photo? It allows the reader to feel a connection with the author, of course, but the photo also communicates something about the genre of the book. Janet Evanovich, Sue Grafton, Diane Mott Davidson and Shelley Costa write funny, PG-rated mysteries, where the violence and sex happen offstage. Janet Evanovich …

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December 19, 2014

When written doesn’t translate to spoken: Dialog tags and audiobooks

The Musubi Murder audiobook is nearing completion. I've really enjoyed listening to the chapters as they come in. I should be well sick of the manuscript by now, so I have to give the credit to my talented (and, as you will see in a moment, very patient) producer. In a printed book, when you have …

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