No Mongoose in the Mimosa

Wobbling Star is free for Kindle October 12  and October 13 of 2012. I realize that this doesn't affect everyone, but I'm not sure why Amazon allows the following kind of nonsense. As an example, I just went to Kindle<Kindle eBooks<Fiction<Fantasy, and the first page is Showing 1 - 12 of 38,307 results.  That's a lot of titles to browse on any bookshelf. I've complained about the classification system before, particularly that Kindle Digital Publishing doesn't use the same classification system for books as Amazon.com. In response to this complaint, KDP said The categories in the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) account don't always match the Kindle store categories. Books published via Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) can fall under two different types of categories - KDP uses BISAC codes to categorize books, while the Amazon website uses a broader classification. Therefore, when you add a category path in the KDP Bookshelf, it will automati...

Mistress of Vision  by R. D. Ferguson , the first book in my Young Adult  New Vision series, is up this morning (October 11, 2012) on Amazon.com . (Edited: this is a new cover designed by Pat R. Steiner) I like Kailin and her adventures. I hope readers do too. The sequel is tentatively titled, Vision Quest . I hope to start writing it early next year. For a variety of reasons, I'm experimenting with an initial for my first name on the cover of Mistress. . . . Although I've run no publicity, Junak Silverhand continues to sell at a steady rate. I don't know why. Must be the title because the cover isn't all that great. I've also noted that the number of hits on this blog have increased with the release of Junak. . . . Related? Friday, October 12, 2012 through Saturday, October 13, 2012, I'm running free copies of Wobbling Star on Amazon. Wobbling Star has been available exclusively on Amazon under the KDP Select program. I'm withdrawing Wobb...

Be sure to read my previous blog entitled Experiment in Publishing to find out how to become a pre-release reviewer for  The Tunnel at the End of the Dark,  Book 2 of my young adult Possible Magic series and the sequel to The Princess, the Knight, & the Knave . Free Short Story: A short story may never sell for a wide variety of reasons. Poor grammar or uninspiring sentences, poorly plotted, bad story telling, unappealing characters, doesn't fit the market, etc. I've sold stories that I thought were just okay to pro markets, and I've had pro markets and semi-pro markets repeatedly reject some of my favorite stories. Like most writers, it's difficult for me to be a good judge of my own work, but even trickier, sometimes you just have to be lucky enough to get a good story to the right editor at the right time. So you just plug away with the submission process and hope for a break. If you remember Brian's Song, you might know that Brian Piccolo was a ver...

Junak Silverhand has been out about a month, and the sales for the Kindle are good. I'm hoping readers might post reviews soon, and that I can get some publicity in time for Christmas. Junak Silverhand is the first volume in my Age of Magic / Age of Iron series. Although I've given away hundreds of promotional copies of Wobbling Star , I don't intend to run a similar promotion for Junak at this time. I plan to release my young adult novel Mistress of Vision soon. Everything is set except the cover art, and I'm still struggling over how simple a simple cover should be. Mistress of Vision is the first book in my young adult Science-Fantasy trilogy  New Vision . This first volume follows the adventures of a young girl named Kailin from ages eleven to thirteen. When she and her brother attempt to escape into the wilderness from their off-world captors, her brother is recaptured, and only Kailin's encounter with a shape-shifting alien named Henki saves he...