Good Cop, Dead Cop book signing

Get your copy of Good Cop, Dead Cop signed where the story begins, in the bowels of Union Station. I’ll be at the open house for the Platte Valley & Western Model Railroad club in the basement of the building from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 17.




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If you’re not familiar with the book, it opens with my dead cop looking for a shooting suspect in the same basement, and Union Station, of course, is on the cover of the book. The club’s open house will actually be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and if you’ve never visited the club, definitely visit even if you don’t care about my book. It’s actually a fun Christmas thing to do so bring the kids.

I’ll have copies of the book to sell, or you can pick up your copy at the downtown Tattered Cover that’s just across the street.

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

Giveaway ends August 08, 2011.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

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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.

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.

GoodReads Book Giveaway!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Good Cop, Dead Cop

by Jennifer Petkus

Giveaway ends August 08, 2011.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

Enter to win

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.