Day: August 21, 2012

Candy Korman Announces New Release

Author Candy Korman is pleased to announce the release of her new vampire un-romance, Bram Stoker’s Summer Sublet.

Instead of spending the month of July on her honeymoon in Italy, Willie is pet/apartment sitting on Tompkins Square in New York. As she tries to reboot her life, she watches too many woman-in-jeopardy movies on TV and pays entirely too much attention to the pontificating parrot in her care. As she regains her equilibrium, she comes to the radical conclusion that the attractive man next door is a vampire.

Written in diary entries, voice mail, email, etc., this is a comic 21st Century Dracula. It’s the second in the Candy’s Monsters ebook series of novellas inspired by horror classics.

Bram Stoker’s Summer Sublet  was released on July 10, 2012 by Lymehouse Productions. It is available on Amazon.com and Amazon UK as an e-book.

Pimping

I am going to share a very important secret with you. It is part of what makes IU successful. It helps me sell books. It helps my friends. It helps the community. And you can do it from the comfort of your own bathroom (or kitchen…whatever). It’s called pimping, and you don’t even need a feather hat (it helps though).

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Sales Versus Selling Out

Give me moneyMy introduction to the realities of book sales came in junior high school. I was one of two finalists for a story contest in Language Arts class, and my competitor’s story was a literary masterpiece. I don’t remember the plot exactly, but her story involved an orange cat and the writing was so offbeat and lyrical and deep that I knew she had a special talent and deserved to win.

My story wasn’t even good enough to be considered ordinary in my own mind. But my characters were named after each student in the class, and I put the girls in situations with their guy crushes and made several of the jocks fall face-first into a pond, plus other giggle-inducing drivel. So when the class voted for the winner, I won by a landslide. Continue reading “Sales Versus Selling Out”