Always Keep Your Peace
You can’t always explain or defend yourself if they are determined to keep on misunderstanding you. How they interpret your words and actions is their own choosing, and how you protect your PEACE is yours. — Dodinsky
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Book Sales: What Happens When Blockbusters Flood The Market?
Back to business, ladies and gentlesirs.
Today I want to look at who in the blockbusting big leagues was publishing in 2014, and what the market looked like when they did.
I’ve been wading around in the book data again, my hand on my chin, occasionally contorting myself into an awkward (and poor) imitation of Rodin’s Thinker.
“Are book sales greater in June or July… or is it November… wait, is that a ten euro note?! Which reminds me, I must get toilet paper” Pic: musee-rodin.fr
I’ve spent some time prodding numbers into spreadsheets, sorting them into tables, poking them a bit (but not so much that they lose their shape, because they don’t like that), throwing them into graphs and taking them back out again.
Again, the idea here is to look at Top Ten Fiction Bestsellers in the UK – according to Nielsen and the Sunday Times –
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A New Page
A few days ago my mind was bogged down with stress and anxiety. Today, it is open and the fog has lifted. Today’s page is filled with ideas and smiles.
Write a new page today…make it a good one! Mine…a comedy or action packed…just not a drama!!
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Book Cover Artist Q&A with Chris Graham the @StoryReadingApe
RW: You are the Indie Authors best friend. That’s something many people know you as, but there is another aspect of your contribution to the Author world that some are not quite as familiar with. Tell us about how and why you came to create book covers? What was your first one?
CHRIS: My first cover was for the late Steve K. Smy, ‘Shade of Evil’, the first of a new series that Steve intended to publish, this was quickly followed by two more for ‘Evil Under the Circle’ and ‘A Darkness in Amazonia’, unfortunately, Steve died shortly after publishing this last one, however, based on notes left behind by Steve, his son Damien has published one more book of a new Fantasy series (asking me to do the cover and a map) and already has the cover plus maps from me for a second book:
RW:…
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I Like Loyal People
I like messy people; people who don’t fit in a box or stay between the lines, but whose integrity is greater than any rule book and whose loyalty is stronger than blood. — Jim Wern
Perfect Jax…just perfect.
One Nurse Re-Imagines The Precious Neonatal Babies She Cares For
Oh my goodness…this touched my heart.
Nurse Jessica Wright spends her days caring for peaceful looking patients, but she knows the babies in her neonatal intensive care unit are quietly fighting a battle for their lives.
However, that doesn’t stop her and her fellow nurses from imagining the bright futures waiting for every child. In fact, she has big dreams for these babies.
A BEAUTIFUL ballerina.
An AMAZING astronaut.
A DARLING doctor.
A CHARMING chef.
An OUTSTANDING Olympian.
Nestled safely in their homes, babies often fall asleep to lullabies about twinkling stars and jumping sheep. In a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), babies fall asleep to steady beeps from monitors and whispered conversations between parents and caregivers.
Writing for the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s blog, Wright explains, “I like to think that I’ve cared for the next President of the United States, the scientist who’s going to help cure cancer, a Top Chef, an astronaut, an…
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Part of the Beauty of Literature
When your readers find their own truth in your words and stories, is when the connection begins and the relationship blooms.
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