Rosen Trevithick's Blog, page 11

My new titles are available to pre-buy, i.e. purchase ahead of the official launch on 30th November.

Advantages to buying now:

- you will ensure that you get a first edition

- it will help you Win a Kindle Paperwhite

Seesaw - Volume II

Will writing erotica save a grandmother from financial ruin? Where is Emma's baby and why hasn't he been returned to her? And will a boy be able to stop his little sister from being made into a gourmet girl burger?

Following Rosen's acclaimed Seesaw collection, Volum...

Warning: The Troll Name Generator is highly addictive.

I have created a page that generates random troll names, places and smells. Simply go to the Troll Name Generator to read a brand new troll name. Or input your own name to find out what you might have been called if you were a troll.

Authors, if you're planning to run a Kindle Countdown promotion, do not expect a dramatic increase in visibility on Amazon without further promotion. There are already thousands of Countdown deals running. To stand out from the crowd, you will need to find other ways to inform readers that your book is on promotion.

Here are some sites that appear to list price drop promotions and their requirements.

UK

Indie Book Bargains accept books priced up to £2.99. Those with good review...

I blogged that Kindle Countdown was going to provide new opportunities for authors. It would be fair to say that I had high expectations for this new feature offered by Amazon, which allows authors to run time limited price drop promotions. However, experiences so far have not been good.

For a start, I found it impossible to set up promotions for any of my books. Many were ineligible because the criteria for running a Countdown promotion are strict. However, I couldn't even set up a promotion...

I'm delighted to report that a press release about my quarter million is now on Google News, along with a snazzy photo.

The press release summarises the story I blogged last week, (From unfit for work to selling quarter of a million books - How did that happen?). I'm hoping it will get picked up by a national paper or magazine.

Thanks to readers for the encouraging support shown after I decided to take the plunge and be honest about my situation. Further thanks to those who helped me select a...

Authors have been speculating about the new Kindle Countdown Deals tab in their Kindle Direct Publishing Reports. A press release now reveals that it's a new option that will allow authors to put their books on time limited promotions. To take advantage of setting up one of these promotions, you need to make your eBooks exclusive to Amazon (sound familiar?).

Kindle Countdown Deals provide readers with limited-time promotional discounts on eBooks. Readers will see a clock that counts down to t...

Over the last two years, readers have downloaded over 244,000 copies of my eBooks. The last time I was in paid employment was the year 2000, over thirteen years ago. I suffer from bipolar disorder, not your garden variety but a type known as rapid cycling. This means that debilitating mood swings snap on and off, seemingly at random and sometimes many times throughout the day. For a number of years I thought I'd never work again.

So what's changed?

For a start, I haven't been idle for the last...

Signed copies of all three of my new releases are available on Goodreads. To enter you just have to sign in and tell the site where you want your book(s) sent to if you win.

Win a copy of Seesaw - Volume II

Win a copy of Trolls on Ice

Win a copy of The First Trollogy

Many thanks to the staff and children at Foxhole School for welcoming me into their library yesterday afternoon. Special thanks to the children who made me presents of pictures.

I really enjoyed what was my first official author visit to a school. I delighted in answering questions, reading sections from The Troll Trap, helping children think of names and scents for their trolls, and running around pretending to be a troll. Apologies to the parents whose children were returned to them with gre...

I couldn't believe it when I received a Kobo Writing Life newsletter about half an hour ago. It is my understanding that Kobo recently removed all books published through their Writing Life platform, as well as those submitted through intermediaries like Smashwords and D2D, due to a scandal that resulted from their own failure to filter books. Yet they saw fit to deliver their October self-publishing newsletter.

The October edition of their monthly newsletter includes self-publishing hints and...