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The “stellar” Dark Palace is down in price.

These things change quickly, but right now the ebook of The Dark Palace is just £1.65 on Kindle. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly said of it: “stellar… Ruth Rendell fans open to stories set a century ago will be well satisfied.” Booklist described it as “a gripping read” and Kirkus Reviews commented on its “Dickensian zest”. So what …

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Adventures in e-publishing part 14 – interview with Seumas Gallacher.

Today’s adventurer in e-publishing is Seumas Gallacher, author and self-publisher of The Violin Man’s Legacy ebook. Seumas has achieved staggering success with his novel, reaching no.3 in the Amazon UK bestseller thriller chart. RM: So, Seumas, could you start by telling us how many sales and/or free downloads of The Violin Man’s Legacy there have …

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FREE BRIDGE

Many words have been used to describe my e-published collection of short stories, The Bridge That Bunuel Built: bizarre, quirky, surreal, dark, weird, certifiable, brilliant (that wasn’t me who said that, but someone did, I promise!). Now we can add “free” to the list. That’s right. For a few days only this stylishly designed and …

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Adventures in e-Publishing Part 8 – readers’ survey findings

Got a nice trawl of responses to my readers’ survey on e-books. My thanks to everyone who took part. With 56% of the vote, the most popular e-reader by far was the Kindle. The Sony e-reader came second with 11%. (One respondent was vehemently opposed to the Kindle, on the grounds of software incompatibility. Kindle-fans …

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