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Need a good read? Smashwords’s annual Read an Ebook Week is now, March 2 – 8, which means thousands of free or cheap of ebooks for you, including A Reason to Live (currently free)! Check out the event homepage at https://www.smashwords.com/ebookweek. Grab A Reason to Live in any digital format at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view.... Read well! Filed under: […]

Friends – Big Al’s voting page is now live!  I am thrilled to announce that A Reason to Live has been nominated by Big Al’s Books and Pals for their 2014 Readers’ Choice Awards! I made it past the 1,400 books submitted and the 368 actually reviewed to make it into Big Al’s top echelon. […]

For those of you who have created audio books with Amazon’s audio division ACX (or are thinking of doing so), you may have heard that ACX made a rather unwelcome announcement today: royalty rates–which had been a generous 50% of sales with a potential to escalate up to 90% based on unit sales–will be reduced […]

I was told recently by several people that they couldn’t tell from my covers which books were Marty Singer books (hint: they all are). Although I like my covers, I had to admit that there was no single unifying feature to them that identified them as belonging to the same series. I tried many different […]

I was told recently by several people that they couldn’t tell from my covers which books were Marty Singer books (hint: they all are). Although I like my covers, I had to admit that there was no single unifying feature to them that identified them as belonging to the same series. I tried many different […]

24 books – $.99 each – 1 week only! A HUGE multi-author, multi-genre, $.99 ebook sale that I’ve been organizing launched today over at www.lovemurderandeverythingelse.com. The sale runs for one week, Nov 2 – Dec 3 only, and features some of the most amazing writers out there, like Scott Nicholson, Alexandra Sokoloff, J.C. Black, and Jennifer […]

Hi Everyone - Just a few quick notes. After the holidays, I hope to turn my attention to writing more on the blog as well as a site redesign, but life has been hectic around here. Finding Emma $.99 To test out Amazon’s new Kindle Countdown functionality, I’ve lowered Finding Emma, a novel of psychological […]

(The following is an unabashed and outright idea theft from horror writer Brian Keene’s blog, which you should read and subscribe to.) My name is Matthew Iden. I am a self-published, independent writer of crime fiction, fantasy, psychological suspense, and literary fiction with a twist. I’m best known for my Marty Singer detective series about […]

Something that’s given me a real surge of pride and joy lately has been discovering the Kindle “Shared Notes & Highlights” section for each of my books. Notes and Highlights are, well, notes and highlights that readers create in any book or document on their Kindle. These comments can be kept private or shared publicly. […]

So, I’ve been making the joke lately that I was at risk of having my official Crime Writers’ Badge taken away because I’d never seen HBO’s The Wire, a crime drama that debuted more than a decade ago and taped its last show in 2008. With nods to a current drama about a deranged high […]