Matthew Iden's Blog, page 11

This is less of a deeply informative post than a quick observation, really. I’m off for Southern France–I’ve always wanted to say that!–for two weeks and things are hectic here. Thanks to a KDP Select “free” bump, I’ve sold almost 600 copies of A Reason to Live since August 6. Besides making me giddy and [...]

Reblogged from The Motley Chronicles: The Sword of Kings by Matthew Iden; an Amazon  average rating of 4.6 stars. Some Thoughts on The Sword of Kings: A great story illustrating the sacrifices we make for power and the costs of holding it.  The Sword of Kings, though in the fantasy genre, offers lessons in the weight we place on [...]

For those of you who have picked up a copy of Finding Emma, you may have noticed a particular typo at about the half-way point of the book. Out of nowhere (as most typos are known to appear), the words “He Doug” starts a sentence. It’s bad enough that the thing is a typo. It’s [...]

Interesting news today from Amazon: KDP authors can now reach the world’s largest English-speaking democracy. Amazon announced that, in partnership with Croma retail stores to sell the Kindle, Amazon’s digital bookstores have thrown their doors open to the 1,000,000 books available for the Kindle e-reader at www.amazon.com/kindlestoreindia. “We are proud to launch this new Kindle [...]

This is the second part in a three part series about book cover design. The intended audience is the self-publishing writer with little design experience. The guidelines I set forth are from my experience working with my own self-published titles, with graphic designers, and about twelve years of web design experience (which is no substitute [...]

While I continue to toil with Part II of my Book Cover Design Primer, I’m also trying to put out Blueblood, the second in the Marty Singer crime fiction series. The good news is that the line edits came back from my editor, the inimitable Alison Dasho. The bad news is that I have to [...]

A Reason to Live, Finding Emma, and one bad twelve are all 30% off for a short time on Kobo.com! Just enter the promo code “KWLsave30” on checkout. And you can cruise a host of other great indie titles at Kobo’s sale page, including titles by Konrath, Crouch, Mayer, and Lyons. I believe the sale [...]

While I work on my Part II of A Primer on Book Covers, check out my buddy Art Taylor’s review of the mystery The Twenty-Year Death in the Washington Post. Art is a professor and writer and gets to review mysteries and crime fiction for the WaPo several times a year. Check out his blog [...]

Hi Friends - Just wanted to throw out a quick note about A Reason to Live. Thanks in large part to your support, I’ve been on a great sales run this week, averaging about 2-3 per hour on Amazon. Those kinds of numbers have resulted in some great results: #2,674 Paid in Kindle Store (as [...]

Hi Friends - Just wanted to throw out a quick note about A Reason to Live. Thanks in large part to your support, I’ve been on a great sales run this week, averaging about 2-3 per hour on Amazon. Those kinds of numbers have resulted in some great results: #2,674 Paid in Kindle Store (as [...]