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Joe Cottonwood returns, this time treating us to a children’s book. It’s called Boone Barnaby:
If you liked Clear Heart, I think you’ll like this one too. It’s got great characters, it’s down-to-earth, it’s fun. And better yet, this one’s friendly to children. Boone Barnaby is about three boys testing the limits of [...]

Old thinking: If you give away a version of your book, no one will pay you to write:
New thinking: The print version of Scott Sigler’s Contagious hit #33 on the New York Times Best Sellers list last Thursday. And yes, he’s giving away the serialized audio version for free.
The last 18 months or so [...]

Teel is giving away five free copies of the print version of his novel, Forget What You Can’t Remember. Here’s Teel to tell you how you can enter to win:
1) Sign up for a Goodreads account.
1b) Actually use your account; put in books you’ve read, are currently reading, want to read, write reviews, and otherwise [...]

Russell Bradbury-Carlin begins today releasing his humor collection, A Brief Conversation with My Hair:
A Brief Conversation with My Hair is a collection of short literary humor pieces that have been previously featured on such websites at McSweeney’s, Yankee Pot Roast, The Big Jewel, Opium Magazine, and The Science Creative Quarterly. Some of the titles (which [...]

Last year, Bantam Dell Publishing Group’s director of Internet marketing Ken Wohlrob was facing an interesting challenge. Could the same new media efforts that had been previously leveraged by independent authors work for an established author? And how would it work when the test was for the print release of the third book in a [...]

DRM is dagnasty evil. Oh, and it doesn’t work. We don’t use DRM protection on any file you download from Podiobooks.com, and we never will. It’s a hindrance to well meaning people, that is all. It’s worthlessness has recently been recognized by the music industry, but leading audiobook producers will continue to proceed with their [...]

Seth Harwood, the undisputed master of crime podcast fiction, returns to Podiobooks.com. This time it’s with a collection of short stories called CrimeWAV:
CrimeWAV.com is a new podcast series of crime short stories by some of today’s best contemporary writers in the genre. Call it detective fiction, hard boiled, action, mystery, whatever you want. This is [...]

Kirk Warrington has posted the final episodes of his fantasy-game-gone-wrong novel, DarkAge. You can now grab all 35 episodes, plus a Q and A session to wrap things up.

Keeping his the story going, Remy Gibson launches Checkwolf – Book 3 today:
The third of four books in the Checkwolf series examines the aftereffects of the drama from the end of the previous book, as well as introducing a major new threat to the organization and city they are sworn to protect, all while the [...]

Not wanting to leave his listeners in a lurch, Teel McClanahan III today drops the first two episodes of Forget What You Can’t Remember:
Featuring a zombie outbreak and a strange sort of doomsday, but really focusing on how coming through those experiences into utopia and freedom effects different people, Forget What You Can’t Remember is [...]