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Category Archives: The Book Business

August Wrap-Up

September 1, 2011 – 11:19 pm

This month’s NEW BOOKS: MAYA BANKS released In Bed with a Highlander, Book One of the McCabe Trilogy. AUTHOR WEBSITE BONUS: Maya’s got a brand new Fun Stuff Page. The video is hilarious. JACI BURTON released Changing the Game, Book Two in her Play-by-Play series. AUTHOR WEBSITE BONUS: Updated Character Lists and Series Overview in [...]

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We Love Bookmarks: Reason #4

August 18, 2011 – 4:35 pm

For the reader: Bookmarks can actually help you read. You read by habit. Your eyes have muscle memory for what you usually read. If you’re used to Twitter, neither War and Peace nor Harry Potter will come easily. This is not because Twitter made you stupid or less intellectual (although there are those who will [...]

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July Wrap-Up

July 26, 2011 – 3:43 pm

This month’s NEW BOOKS: NICOLA CORNICK released Notorious in North America, Book 4 in the Scandalous Women of the Ton series, and One Wicked Sin in the UK, Book 2 in the Scandalous Women of the Ton series. AUTHOR WEBSITE BONUS: Pride and Prejudice influenced this story — read Nicola’s Behind the Book to hear [...]

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Kindle, Nook (and more) Ordering Buttons… We’re Sharing!

July 15, 2011 – 12:59 pm

We launched something very very cool today. Shockingly, online bookstores did not have buttons like these for use — not even kindle or nook. (I know, right?!) Eloisa James if the first of our authors to launch our new order structures (this is only phase one — more to come!). As soon as we started [...]

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June Wrap-Up

June 28, 2011 – 5:11 pm

Reporting in from New York (RWA) on this month’s NEW BOOKS: JULIA QUINN released Just Like Heaven, Book 1 in the Smythe-Smith Quartet, which is already a NY Times Bestseller, and #1 on the Publishers Weekly list! AUTHOR WEBSITE BONUS: Check out the dedications to each of JQ’s books… some of them are downright hilarious. [...]

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