Friday, July 29, 2011

Apparently smart self-publishing decisions: giveaway

At least for the moment, creating the giveaway on GoodReads.com seems to have been a smart decision.

Goodreads Book Giveaway





Good Cop, Dead Cop by Jennifer Petkus



Good Cop, Dead Cop


by Jennifer Petkus



Giveaway ends August 08, 2011.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.




Enter to win


Thursday, July 28, 2011

Stupid self-publishing mistakes I have made: ISBNs

I should have either bought a block of ISBNs from Bowker or just used CreateSpace services to get my ISBN. What I did instead was just buy one ISBN from Bowker and now nickel and dimed my way into spending too much for a book that’s sold less than 30 copies so far.

Stupid self-publishing mistakes I have made: Incremental release

I started researching self publishing in advance of my book, My Particular Friend, in the event that I could not find an agent or publisher for it. Along the way, I decided that I could experiment with the book I had already written, Good Cop, Dead Cop. And so I learned how to format the book for the Kindle, and then the Nook, and then Lulu and iBooks and finally for CreateSpace as a real paperback.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Lulu no longer stumped on permissions

[farnsworth]Good news, everyone.[/farnsworth] Well, good news to Mac users of calibre, Sigil and Lulu.com, anyway. Lulu no longer objects to the permissions of files in epubs converted by calibre and/or Sigil.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

GoodReads Book Giveaway!




Goodreads Book Giveaway





Good Cop, Dead Cop by Jennifer Petkus



Good Cop, Dead Cop


by Jennifer Petkus



Giveaway ends August 08, 2011.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.




Enter to win


Friday, July 22, 2011

Good Cop, Dead Cop for sale at the Tattered Cover


The Tattered Cover, the premiere bookstore in the Denver metro area, now has Good Cop, Dead Cop on its shelves at the Colfax Avenue, downtown and Highlands Ranch stores.