Samantha Warren's Blog

Just a quick post to let you know about the talk I’ll be doing at 4pm ET today (Tuesday, April 21st) on Twitter with @Bibliocrunch about serials. Just do a hashtag search for #indiechat. There is also a giveaway. Sign up below!

April is just a day away and there’s some fun stuff in store! Events First and foremost, I will be attending two events. The first is IndieReCon, a global online conference that goes from April 15th thru the 17th. I will be doing a small presentation on why I think serials are the way to […]

Space Grease & Pixie Dust, Episode 3 is live! Visit your favorite ebook retailer to pick up your copy for only 99 cents. Haven’t started the series yet? Episode 1 is free wherever ebooks are sold!

How much does a fiction book cost? Up front, it seems like a minimal expense. $0.99, $4.99, maybe even $7.99. Few are over $20, even for brand new hardcover books. But how much does it really cost? How much does it take to create a novel? There are quite a few costs associated with bringing […]

Crowdfunding: It’s a word some love, some hate, and some don’t understand. I’ll be running a crowdfunding campaign in February (I may have mentioned that a few times already) and I wanted to clear a few things up about what crowdfunding is and how it works. There are several major crowdfunding sites. The most well-known […]

Nothing in life is free. In theory, that statement is true. Everything costs someone something, be it money, time, pride, whatever. Something always costs something. When it comes to books, free is a double-edged sword, for both readers and writers. As a reader, I think free is awesome… most of the time. Who doesn’t love […]

Originally sent to newsletter subscribers on October 27, 2014. I have something super awesome to share with you today. Normally I only do interviews once a month, but I just couldn’t hold onto this one. My absolute favoritest author ever, Jonathan Maberry, offered himself up for the Three Questions! How could I pass that […]

Originally sent to newsletter subscribers on October 20, 2014. So I have some bad news to share. I know if you’re a fan of the Jane series, you’ve probably been waiting with bated breath for the release of Blood War. Please don’t hate me when I tell you that I’ve had to push the […]

Originally sent to newsletter subscribers on September 15th, 2014. 1) What are you working on right now? I am just preparing my first Kindle book, The Hillwalker, for publication. I’m writing this under a pen-name, Lytchett Maltravers. I’ve ghost-written before, but ghosting for myself is a new experience. The book is a novella, around […]

Originally sent to newsletter subscribers on September 08, 2014. Sign up here to receive newsletters first and get extra newsletter-only content! I blame Star Wars. For what? Badass bad guys. Now, we could spend this entire newsletter debating whether “badass” is one word or two (it’s one), but instead, let’s talk about how it’s […]