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Scott Bly03.2014PublishingLeave a Comment

Hi all —

Two pieces of sweet news —

First, I received a really fantastic review from FeatheredQuill.com!  Thanks Amy Lignor!  http://www.featheredquill.com/reviews...

Also, I’ve posted the first couple of chapters of SMASHER on my site for free.  Please go take a look to whet your appetite for the main course!  Here’s a link…  http://scottbly.com/smasher/read-chap...

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Ooooo — check this out!  This movie hits theaters TODAY and it will only be around for a little while.  It’s getting universally positive acclaim, and the technology and experiments they’re covering are part of the inspiration for my book, SMASHER!

http://www.facebook.com/ParticleFever

Ooooo — check this out!  This movie hits theaters TODAY and it will only be around for a little while.  It’s getting universally positive acclaim, and the technology and experiments they’re covering are part of the inspiration for my book, SMASHER! http://www.facebook.com/ParticleFever

Hi all – Two pieces of sweet news – First, I received a really fantastic review from FeatheredQuill.com!  Thanks Amy Lignor!  http://www.featheredquill.com/reviews... Also, I’ve posted the first couple of chapters of SMASHER on my site for free.  Please go take a look to whet your appetite for the main course!  Here’s a link…  http://scottbly.com/smasher/read-chap...

The other day I got a call from my editor, Bonnie Verburg, wanting to read my first review to me!  She prefaced this by telling me that first reviews can sometimes be pretty brutal.  So I braced for the worst.  This being the first review of my first book, I had no idea what to expect.  All of the second guessing ... Read More

Finishing up my Top Ten Amazon authors research, I found that I was still sorely lacking in inspiration.  But I was certainly armed with examples of what NOT to do.  I plowed ahead relentlessly. First step – Check out a few obvious (translation: author rock-star) names that just happened to not be in the top ten the day I checked: ... Read More

Scott Bly01.2014Publishing, TechLeave a Comment

Finishing up my Top Ten Amazon authors research, I found that I was still sorely lacking in inspiration.  But I was certainly armed with examples of what NOT to do.  I plowed ahead relentlessly.

First step – Check out a few obvious (translation: author rock-star) names that just happened to not be in the top ten the day I checked:

 

Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown, author of the DaVinci Code.

His parallax page just scrolls on too long, and stutters strangely on my Mac.  This is an example of too much =

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My first novel, SMASHER, is coming out March 25th, and an obvious goal is to sell a boatload of them and I need a good web presence by which to promote it.  I decided it was probably a good idea to make sure I did some homework so my team and I could make the best design decisions. I started ... Read More