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Spam comment of the week

April 23, 2010
By alan

I get a lot of spam comments here. It’s inevitable, I suppose. Once you’ve been blogging for a while a certain amount of robots and fuckwits are naturally drawn to the comments section where they shit their rubbish all over the place, telling me what a great blog this is or what an interesting...
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Ooh, right in the brand

April 15, 2010
By alan
Ooh, right in the brand

So yeah, this does nothing for my personal branding. But it’s a very kind gesture nonetheless, and I’ll take it in the spirit it was intended. Maybe it can be beautiful in the way that arterial spray from a swiftly rent throat is beautiful. These things are little more than glorified chain letters, morphed...
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Bitten By Books reviews of RealmShift & MageSign

March 9, 2010
By alan

I love it when my books get reviewed. I really love it when they get positive reviews. It makes me do little happy dances around my study when they land 5 star reviews. Or, in this case, 5 out of 5 headstones. For both of them! Bitten By Books is a site that provides...
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New RealmShift review at Horror Bound

February 28, 2010
By alan

I was very pleased to read a new review of RealmShift over at Horror Bound today. Among other things, the reviewer said stuff like: “You’ll be hooked. And then, you’re in for a fast-paced, white knuckle ride.” “Alan Baxter excels at writing action.” “All in all, Realm Shift is a worthwhile read. At the...
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Damn Wolfman movie ripping off Twilight

February 20, 2010
By alan

Yes, you read that right. One of the mailing groups I’m on was shocked by this recently, so I thought I’d share. A young Twilight fan wrote a letter to the website latinoreview.com. I had no idea there was a Latino Review site, but there you go. This letter writer does nothing for the...
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Some nice recent reviews

January 2, 2010
By alan

I’ve just noticed a couple of new reviews around the place. There’s this one for RealmShift on Smashwords: Review by: Laurens Leurs on Dec. 13, 2009 : 5 Stars An interesting and strangely compelling read. This books is a pretty unusual mix of fantasy, action and horror but much to my surprise this actually...
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2009 keyword searches

December 30, 2009
By alan
2009 keyword searches

My friend Michael recently did a post like this and it reminded me that I haven’t done one for a while. It basically boils down to entertaining yourself by looking at the various keyword searches that led people to your blog throughout the year. It’s amazing the things people search for online. Michael blogged...
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Reviews, word of mouth and Super Users – Part 2

September 29, 2009
By alan

Ever wondered how you’re going to get your erotic werewolf scifi mysteries noticed by readers? Following yesterday’s guest post here by MCM about how to make reviews work for writers, today MCM picks up where he left off and talks about how to make use of the long tail and work your way up...
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Reviews, word of mouth and Super Users – Guest post by MCM

September 28, 2009
By alan
Reviews, word of mouth and Super Users – Guest post by MCM

Today I’m pleased to present a guest post by MCM. This post explores the difficulties in building a fan base through word of mouth, and talks about how reviewers can help us with that. Recently, I’ve had some conversations with very smart people about the future of publishing, specifically about how readers and writers...
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Formatting error on Smashwords ebooks

September 20, 2009
By alan

A reader was kind enough to point out to me recently that the epub versions of RealmShift and MageSign had a formatting error. It seems that the font size switched between 10 point and 12 point fairly randomly throughout both books on some readers. I checked this on my iPhone and found that on...
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