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Re: Guest Post: 6 Reasons Why Werewolves Are Wicked

a.m.harte — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:01:55 -0000

It's more because I forget things :-P Will send you one asap!

Re: Hopelessly Devoted Bilbliophile: Book Review: Above Ground

a.m.harte — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:54:14 -0000

You just reminded me - need to add those two to my Goodreads!

Re: Guest Post by A.M. Harte: Above Ground, In Seasons

a.m.harte — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:53:31 -0000

I reckon all of Greg's characters are autumn characters - changeable and with dead leaves in their hair.

Re: Guest Post: 6 Reasons Why Werewolves Are Wicked

a.m.harte — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:58:51 -0000

Happy to give you a free ecopy if you drop me an email ;-)

Re: Above Ground Blog Tour – An Author Interview with A.M. Harte

a.m.harte — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:53:37 -0000

I agree with you - there is pressure, but it's good pressure for someone lazy like me. :-)

Re: Above Ground Blog Tour – An Author Interview with A.M. Harte

a.m.harte — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:53:18 -0000

It takes the pressure off in one way, in that you're kind of given
continual encouragement that you're on the right track (and little
nudges when you're not) but there is also an added pressure in that you've got to produce every single week and (in my case) often end up writing by the seat of your pants in complete panic.

That said, I needed the pressure of an audience in order to finish the book -- without those regular deadlines, it would have taken me a lot longer to finish. Plus, the interactivity of webfiction means that my readers did influence and appear in the book, which makes it more fun for everyone.

Re: Be Narrow-Minded: 11 Questions to Turn a Target Market into a Reader Profile

a.m.harte — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:02:16 -0000

I'm struggling with this a little - because I've posted a lot of work online and have some long-term readers who I've gotten to know quite well, my mind keeps trying to combine them into one person.... end result being:

20-35, female or male, English/American/Australian with college-level education, middle class, most likely in a relationship, and a little geeky. I haven't quite figured out how to mash their names together :-P

Re: Near Dark: Puzzlement

a.m.harte — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:03:42 -0000

Moar please?

Re: Near Dark: Or the Wind

a.m.harte — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:58:34 -0000

*scratches head* I'm a bit confused. Killian is a girl? I honestly thought it was a boy's name...

Re: Enter the Weird: Chapter Two

a.m.harte — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:35:57 -0000

I like this! The opening line of chapter one was catchy, and it's continued to be quite witty throughout. I like the snark and would be curious to read more :-)

Re: 3 Reasons Why Reader-Centered Book Marketing Rocks! [Lesson 1]

a.m.harte — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:24:18 -0000

Best moment? When someone asked me to sign a book for them. It was also the freakiest moment, too!

Re: Serial Fiction: the New Wave of Publishing.

a.m.harte — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:06:02 -0000

When I read a post like this of yours, I really wonder why you don't have my job. :-P
I got excited about the Amazon Serials, though, even if I knew that serials had been around forever. Having Amazon support serial models might increase its popularity, bringing in a bigger audience / more market awareness etc.
Then I looked at Amazon's guidelines. They want multi-episode serials of 10,000 WORDS per episode. So basically, mini-novellas. It's a far cry from the chapter by chapter content you get online.

Re: Is Your “Survivor” Mentality Dragging Down Book Sales?

a.m.harte — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:54:24 -0000

Indie authors Kait Nolan and Susan Bischoff do this to great effect :-)
Worth checking out their works!

Re: 9 Signs Self-Publishing Is out of Control

a.m.harte — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 06:33:40 -0000

Amen!

Re: Ten Rules for Writing Fiction

a.m.harte — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:47:21 -0000

"Remember you love writing. Remember writing doesn’t love you. It doesn’t care. Nevertheless, it can behave with remarkable generosity." -- for some reason, that quote struck me really forcibly.

Re: Stop Moving in One Direction.

a.m.harte — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:06:14 -0000

*claps*

I, as a best-selling author with hordes of fans already, have no need for such tactics. Honestly. 9 out of 10 people like you agree that I'm awesome.

Yup.

:-)

Re: Webcomics and Webfiction: Considering the Audience Gap

a.m.harte — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:36:48 -0000

If only I could draw, I would!

Re: The Power of the Story

a.m.harte — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:38:19 -0000

Amen.

Re: Casting your bread

a.m.harte — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:15:37 -0000

Hear, hear! Free ebook directories (and even free online fiction directories like Web Fiction Guide) have long been a driver of traffic to my sites. It takes seconds to submit, and I don't see why every author doesn't do it.

Re: Chapter 1p2 – Takes Too Much Paperwork

a.m.harte — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:40:23 -0000

I was going to go for depressed a la Marvin the paranoid android, but then I thought annoyingly cheerful would work better... eg, "Hey! We're about to die, and the weather is looooovely!"

Re: We Need a Lunatic

a.m.harte — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:23:28 -0000

Pick me pick me pick -- oh wait, I don't have time either. Mew :-(

Re: Happy Halloween from 1889 Labs!

a.m.harte — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:34:26 -0000

I completely forgot about Halloween this year :-/ Didn't do anything exciting!

Re: Genre as Indicator

a.m.harte — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:33:59 -0000

True, true. Romance books sell like hot cakes.

I find it easy to read romance ebooks, and have ended up reviewing quite a few on my book blog. For me, romance and thrillers are "lighter" reading which I can skim through rather rapidly, as opposed to fantasy/scifi which for me mostly involves a more concentrated effort (focusing on world building et al). I wonder whether others read in a similar fashion, thereby finding romance books more accessible as ebooks compared to a scifi ebook?

Re: Hopelessly Devoted Bilbliophile: Book Review: Bears, Recycling, and Confusing Time Paradoxes

a.m.harte — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:29:54 -0000

I think the dinosaur recycling one is one of my favourite concepts in the book, but the first story of Greg's I ever read was "Bears" so that one has a special place in my heart. :-)

Re: Webfiction World!

a.m.harte — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:12:03 -0000

Not sure about the "gorgeous", but yeah!