Christiane Serruya, a USA Today bestselling self-published author of contemporary romances, plagiarized massive chunks of other writers’ books, specifically Courtney Milan and Tessa Dare. The plagiarism isn’t in question. It’s blatant. Text in Green is copied word for word. Caught red-handed, Christiane came up with a dog ate my homework excuse. She hired some guy
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KU Availability
N. writes, I am wondering if you are going to continue to allow Kindle Unlimited readers to enjoy your Innkeeper series. If not, will the books be in the libraries? I’m shamelessly addicted to your books, and when we actually had a bookstore, I swore I’d never own a Kindle, but small town Zanesville, Ohio
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What’s Next?
You guys are insatiable. Ok, let’s see if I can do this correctly. We usually operate in twelve month chunks so, here we go. This is all tentative and subject to change. Things in italics are supertentative. 2018 Sep 10 Begin work on Hidden Legacy #4. Nov 6 Diamond Fire, Hidden Legacy 3.5, goes
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Innkeeper later in the day.
We have finally repaired damage to the office and yesterday and today was spent fixing it back up. Writing in a flood damaged office kind of sucked. So we are working on Innkeeper installment now and we will try to get it to you today. This installment is kind of a two-scene deal, otherwise it
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PSA: Typical Industry Practices
On a deadline, so a short post for the authors who are just starting out on their career path. Publishing industry has some typical practices. Established writers view it as the cost of doing business. 1. Reoccurring Titles. This is normal. Happens all the time. You can’t copyright your titles. Copyrighting your titles in a
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RWA Meeting Tomorrow
We are visiting our local RWA chapter tomorrow and answering questions, so if you are an RWA member in Austin and you want to ask us something about industry or writing, now if your chance. More details here: http://austinrwa.org/ilona-andrews/
Scammers and Kindle Unlimited
Sometimes we’re asked why our books are not in Kindle Unlimited. Usually we mention two reasons. One, KU is an exclusive kind of game. Once you’re in KU, you can’t sell your titles anywhere else, unless you are a BNA (Big Name Author) like Hugh Howey, for example. We want our books to be widely
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Hugh snippet for your Tuesday
First, we will be at Romantic Times Convention in Atlanta on Thursday and Friday, but we will not be at the Book Fair on Saturday. We are mainly there to get a Career Achievement Award in Urban Fantasy. Flattering beyond reason and a little odd, since we’ve only been publishing for ten years. We will
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Shotgun or sniper rifle?
Notes from the previous posts: when I said that you, as readers, have to decide what you buy, I meant that you have to decide it for yourself for each author. 🙂 This wasn’t necessarily a criticism of series model or any particular author. It was a hypothetical in response to a reader’s question. Some
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Cheap, Fast, and Good
Question: I seems like many authors I’ve found in the last few years are moving toward series that have shorter page count per book and maybe one or two “filler” episodes so that the reading experience feels more like watching TV shows. These authors seem to throw out 3-5 books a year in multiple series.
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Kisscon Tonight in Austin
Please don’t forget, tonight we will be at Kisscon in Austin with a bunch of other cool people. If you bought a VIP ticket, it starts at 5 pm. If you bought a general admission ticket or don’t have a ticket, it’s at 7:00 pm. More information here. When you guys come to some sort
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Exciting announcements!
Heh, you thought there was something good in this post. There is not. Okay, so maybe the little bit of excitement. Let’s take these one at a time. Erika Tsang liked Wildfire. She said she liked it a lot, especially the frying pan. The edits are coming back to us sometime later in the week,
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