Maria Savva's Blog - Posts Tagged "nominations"
News about The BestsellerBound Short Story Anthology - Volume I , my new novel, and an award I would encourage you to vote in...
I have lots of news for you, but I'll start with the most exciting! I am so happy to tell you that the BestsellerBound Short Story Anthology, which includes my short story 'Flames', shot to #1 in the Amazon kindle bestseller lists for 'short stories' and 'anthologies' yesterday when Amazon.com decided to make it available free for kindle. As many of you already know, this anthology is already free to download on Smashwords and we wanted to offer it free on Amazon as well, but Amazon has a policy whereby the author must charge at least $0.99 for any kindle book. Yesterday, however, our luck was in and Amazon listed it free for a day. In that short time we had over 5000 downloads and it entered the top 10 in the free kindle downloads chart on Amazon.com!
At BestsellerBound.com, we are very proud of this achievement. Darcia Helle, Stacy Juba, and I, created BestsellerBound.com last year as a way to raise the profile of indie authors, and this Amazon success has really shown us that with a lot of hard work and determined effort it is possible to get some recognition in the publishing world whether you are published by a large publishing company, or whether you publish in your own home using just your computer.
It's all very exciting.
We are intending to publish more volumes of the BestsellerBound Short Story Anthologies as we have attracted so many talented authors at BestsellerBound, we need a way to showcase that talent. If you're an indie/small press author and would like to contribute a story for an upcoming collection, please visit BestsellerBound.com for details on how to submit.
Now to news about my soon to be published novel, 'The Dream'.
Firstly, sorry for the delay in getting the book published, this has been due to a combination of very boring reasons, such as I now finally have a full time day job so less time to spend on editing. I have now reached the final proof stage and believe the book is ready (subject to a final read-over by me).
Some of you may be aware that my good friend and fellow author Darcia Helle has a new novel coming out in July, Into The Light'. We have decided to launch our two books together as they both have a ghostly/paranormal theme. Stay tuned for news about the launch and an exciting contest where you will be able to enter to win a copy of both books!
Finally, I have news of an award "honouring brilliance and 'reach' in the world of book marketing, sales and readership" The 2011 Farthest Reach Award.
This award is the brainchild of author Jason McIntyre (my co-author for Cutting The Fat).
I would encourage you all to vote in the award. Nominations are now open, so if you know of an author, publisher, marketing professional, who has excelled in the field of book promotion, fill in the form on Jason's website and tell the world about them. I like the idea of this award because as authors (especially indie authors) we rely on word of mouth for book sales, and are eternally grateful to people who go out of their way to promote and help with marketing.
At BestsellerBound.com, we are very proud of this achievement. Darcia Helle, Stacy Juba, and I, created BestsellerBound.com last year as a way to raise the profile of indie authors, and this Amazon success has really shown us that with a lot of hard work and determined effort it is possible to get some recognition in the publishing world whether you are published by a large publishing company, or whether you publish in your own home using just your computer.
It's all very exciting.
We are intending to publish more volumes of the BestsellerBound Short Story Anthologies as we have attracted so many talented authors at BestsellerBound, we need a way to showcase that talent. If you're an indie/small press author and would like to contribute a story for an upcoming collection, please visit BestsellerBound.com for details on how to submit.
Now to news about my soon to be published novel, 'The Dream'.
Firstly, sorry for the delay in getting the book published, this has been due to a combination of very boring reasons, such as I now finally have a full time day job so less time to spend on editing. I have now reached the final proof stage and believe the book is ready (subject to a final read-over by me).
Some of you may be aware that my good friend and fellow author Darcia Helle has a new novel coming out in July, Into The Light'. We have decided to launch our two books together as they both have a ghostly/paranormal theme. Stay tuned for news about the launch and an exciting contest where you will be able to enter to win a copy of both books!
Finally, I have news of an award "honouring brilliance and 'reach' in the world of book marketing, sales and readership" The 2011 Farthest Reach Award.
This award is the brainchild of author Jason McIntyre (my co-author for Cutting The Fat).
I would encourage you all to vote in the award. Nominations are now open, so if you know of an author, publisher, marketing professional, who has excelled in the field of book promotion, fill in the form on Jason's website and tell the world about them. I like the idea of this award because as authors (especially indie authors) we rely on word of mouth for book sales, and are eternally grateful to people who go out of their way to promote and help with marketing.
Indie Book Bargains - nominations for best Kindle books of 2012
Indie Book Bargains are currently collecting nominations for the best Kindle books of 2012. If you've read and enjoyed my latest novel, Haunted, I'd be really grateful if you would consider nominating it. Here is a link to the nomination form: http://www.indie-book-bargains.co.uk/...
(My earlier release in 2012, Coincidences, wouldn't be eligible because it's a re-release of a book, rather than a new book.)
If you haven't read Haunted, please consider voting for your favourite independent books by other authors. This type of thing could result in much needed promotion for books that people wouldn't otherwise hear about. So, if you have read a fabulous book by an indie author (published in 2012), here's your chance to help him or her succeed.
I think multiple votes are allowed, so please vote for all your favourites.
Thanks in advance.
(My earlier release in 2012, Coincidences, wouldn't be eligible because it's a re-release of a book, rather than a new book.)
If you haven't read Haunted, please consider voting for your favourite independent books by other authors. This type of thing could result in much needed promotion for books that people wouldn't otherwise hear about. So, if you have read a fabulous book by an indie author (published in 2012), here's your chance to help him or her succeed.
I think multiple votes are allowed, so please vote for all your favourites.
Thanks in advance.
