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Month: January 2012

From Trestle Press – One Day Throw Down!

Post Views: 411 Sale Within A Sale — Paul D. Brazill’s “Brit Grit Too -Monday- And Monday Only -$.99, Plus The Buy One Get One Free Is Still In Force!! Amazon Kindle Best-Selling and trailblazing author Paul D. Brazill has decided to drop the price of his legendary “Brit Grit Too” to $0.99 for one day, Monday, January 16, 2012. If you purchase “Brit Grit Too” Trestle Press will match that with any title up to the full purchase price of $4.99 as part of the BOGO sale. Just email Paul D. Brazill or find him at his legendary blog- http://pdbrazill.blogspot.com/ Or email Trestle Press directly with your proof of purchase-trestlepress@gmail.com This is what you will find contained within “Brit Grit Too”: Edited by Paul D Brazill, Brit…

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TSD on SS6 for 15Jan

Post Views: 502 If you’re not familiar with “Six Sentence Sunday”, swing over to http://www.sixsunday.com/ and take a look. Its a great idea; dozens of authors submitting the punchiest six lines out of existing or soon-to-arrive stories. Browse them; see what hooks you. From “The Sauder Diaries – By Any Other Name“: There was a howling crash that reduced time to a crawl for a long moment of terror.  He glanced over his shoulder in time to watch a square yard of the port hull explode inwards.  The wood tore itself apart into a scything hail of splinters that murderously filled the air with their hissing flight.  Each of the deadly splinters and shards ricocheted two or three times before coming to a halt.  He threw his arm…

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My Five Dollar Book

Post Views: 363 A conversation came up today on Twitter about pricing books for sales on Amazon. The “eternal question” is what price is the right price. Well, lets take a look at a few numbers, shall we? “The Sauder Diaries – By Any Other Name” is ~97.5k words. When I’m in my “zone”, I manage about 750 words an hour. So, that’s 130 hours of time to draft. I estimate that for every 3h of writing I did, there was 0.75h of research that I needed to do. That’s another 32 hours. Total so far is 162 hours. Then there were three full sets of edits on this; each being about a 10 hour job. That brings us to 192 hours. Artwork creation and selection was a…

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Upcoming Give Away

Post Views: 256 So, my publisher Trestle Press is so happy with how my first novel it doing, he wants me to give away a few copies. That makes sense, right? I’m sure it does. So over the next five weeks, I’ll be announcing a new contest every week with an opportunity to win a signed PDF copy of “The Sauder Diaries – By Any Other Name“. The first place you can start is with my author interview over at romance author Carrie Ann Ryan’s blog page.  Just leave a comment on the interview on her site with your email address in it, and in two weeks I’ll randomly draw from the addresses there and send you your copy!  It’s that easy!  While you’re there, check out her…

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Book Review – “The Electric City: The Stehelins of New France”

Post Views: 254 The electric city: The Stehelins of New France by Paul H Stehelin My rating: 5 of 5 stars Fantastic book for anyone interested in Canada in the Victorian Era as well as the indirect influences that Europe’s political and social issues which impacted on “New France”. Electric lights, hand-built railway systems, carving civilization from wilderness … an excellent read made better by the fact it is all true. View all my reviews

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Looking over my shoulder, then looking ahead

Post Views: 207 So the turn of the year was a very eventful period for me. The week before Christmas had my son down to visit from his school-year home with his mother in Montreal, QC. I hadn’t really seen him beyond MMORPGs, Facebook and a couple of phone calls. Long Distance/ Instant Messenger -isn’t- as good as being there. I miss him, and I’m doing my best for him, but it’s hard. However, it is the arrangement he felt would work best, so I’m okay with it. The same period also saw the release of my first novel, “The Sauder Diaries – By Any Other Name”. It is a Steampunk pirate adventure romance novel which took me about 4 or 5 months to write in my spare…

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