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By Robert Swartwood on June 17, 2011
Now available at most e-bookstores … Five years ago Elizabeth Piccioni’s husband was arrested for being a serial killer. Her life suddenly turned upside down, she did what she thought was best for her newborn baby: she took her son and ran away to start a new life. Now, living in a quiet part of [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on June 8, 2011
The talented and generous Joe McKinney had these very kind words to say about The Dishonored Dead: “The Dishonored Dead is simply brilliant, and its telling a superb achievement. Robert Swartwood has given us a wonderful twist, not only on the zombie novel, but on the dystopian tale as well. It’s like Brave New World meets Logan’s Run, but with a [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on June 6, 2011
As I discussed before, I have sort of become obsessed with this image everyone’s been using for their book covers. I posted a bunch of them here. And now here’s another one: In another news, at some point this past Friday Amazon decided to make The Silver Ring free again but only in the US [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on June 2, 2011
Despite what you may feel about Lada Gaga, when it comes to marketing, she knows what’s she doing. Look at how she recently went directly to Amazon to sell the MP3 of her new album for just 99 cents. I’m not that big of a fan but I’ll admit, I bought it. And why not? [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on May 30, 2011
So yeah, I got out of my car yesterday and my cell phone slipped and landed flat on the ground. It’s not that big of a deal. I had enough foresight to get insurance on it, so all I need to do is take it in and get a replacement. But I’ll tell you, being [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on May 20, 2011
Last week I mentioned how The Silver Ring had been downloaded almost 10,000 times. Well, seven days later, it’s now been downloaded over 22,000 times. Again, what does it mean? Who knows. The numbers are slipping in the US Store (currently #106, plus a new review calling it “Better than mediocre…”!) while in the UK Store [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on May 13, 2011
9,370. That’s how many times The Silver Ring has been downloaded so far at Amazon as of 3:27 a.m. When I mentioned, just two days ago, how Amazon had made the novella available for free on Kindle, I had said only 40 copies had been downloaded. What I didn’t say was that I hoped it [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on May 11, 2011
First, let’s get the important stuff out of the way. My 18,000-word novella The Silver Ring is currently available as a free download at Amazon (US and UK). Normally 99 cents, now it is free. What’s even better is that it includes, along with an excerpt from The Calling, a special sneak preview of my [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on February 20, 2011
It came to my attention tonight that someone is selling The Silver Ring on eBay. This isn’t the first time I’ve been eBayed, but, I don’t know, I find it strange that anybody would buy an e-book off eBay. Then again, you can practically find anything on eBay, so I guess I really shouldn’t find it [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on August 7, 2010
Being a writer nowadays means being 10% writer, 90% marketer (give or take a percentage). I’m not a fan of that business model (I just want to write), but, well, you have to go with the flow. So when there’s publishing news that potential readers might (or might not) be interested in, it’s a writer’s [...]
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