Be sure to check out SkipJack author Pamela Fagan Hutchins’s post on Voice and Deep POV over on Fiction University. We’re pretty excited about the feature, and that Writer Unboxed tweeted it. Access the post, HERE, and be sure to check out their many other helpful author posts on craft while you’re there.
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Congratulations to SkipJack Author Ken Oder: #57 on Amazon
Congratulations to SkipJack author Ken Oder. His debut legal thriller, The Closing, hit #57 overall on Amazon, and #1 in the legal thriller category. Ken’s next novel, Old Wounds to the Heart, comes out this summer. Ken achieved his bestseller status with a ten-day promo blitz modeled off SkipJack’s strategy (here) for past bestseller-run-promos that included: 1. […]
If you don’t enter, you can’t win.
We’ve preached the value of entering contests many times here on the Skip the Jack blog. Brush up on all that HERE. Meanwhile, we are super excited to announce that our own Ken Oder received word that his debut novel, The Closing, is an INDIEFAB mystery/thriller finalist. If he hadn’t entered, he couldn’t have won, and […]
Going for Kona Release Day!
Going for Kona Available Everywhere, Now! The latest romantic mystery by Pamela Fagan Hutchins from SkipJack Publishing Capping off a breakout 2014, Pamela announces the release today of Going for Kona, her fourth and latest full length romantic mystery. Going for Kona introduces readers to a new protagonist, Michele Lopez Hanson. When her husband is killed in a hit-and-run bicycling […]
A Big eBook Day in the UK
Readers in the UK had a big day yesterday, but so did authors whose books are available in ebook form to UK readers. There were two big announcements: The first was that Amazon has launch Kindle Unlimited for the UK. UK readers can pay a monthly subscription to read as many eligible books as they […]
Fulfill Your Dream: Writing, Publishing, and Promotion
Fulfill Your Dream: Writing, Publishing, and Promotion INSTRUCTOR: PAMELA FAGAN HUTCHINS / DATE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1-4 PM WriteSpace Houston, Silver Street Studios #212, 2000A Edwards Street, Houston, Texas, 77007 You’ve dreamed of writing a book for a long time now. Maybe you’ve even started a draft, or written two or three drafts and come to the point […]
Writing Contest Deadline is Now Sept 15
Get your entries submitted TODAY! HOUSTON WRITER’S GUILD’S 2014 FALL CONTEST! The deadline, September 15, 2014, is around the corner. Contest is open to all writers (regardless of publishing status) with original, unpublished work. First place in each category wins $75. Winners will be announced at the 2014 Houston Writers Guild Winter Conference. Everyone will receive […]
WTF: Amazon, ABNA, & PW Passing the Buck?
Normally, I write posts sharing our experiences to help YOU. Today we are asking for your help. Read from the bottom up this series of contacts to Amazon Author Support, Publishers Weekly, and ABNA (Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award) “Admin”/Support. We are totally getting the runaround. Someone, anyone: how do you get your author support issues […]
Tides of Possibility Launch and Reading
We are thrilled to announce that Tides of Possibility–our scifi anthology collaboration with the Houston Writers Guild–is now available for purchase exclusively on Amazon, in ebook or paperback. Prime members who own Kindle devices can borrow it free, and Kindle Unlimited members can download it free as well. About Tides of Possibility: These thirty stories […]
Just for Fun: TV Mysteries With Ties To Books
9. Spenser for Hire: The novels were better, but aren’t they always? Robert B. Parker is the bomb. Robert Ulrich did him proud. (And so does Tom Selleck in the Jesse Stone movies) 8. Hart to Hart: A married crime-fighting team. They made it work, without illicit sex. Hats off to them. Novelist Sidney Sheldon […]