Nathan Bransford - The Forums

I seriously debated whether or not I was going to take time to comment on this thread because I don't like to get into personal arguments with other posters, but I decided that the posts in this thread are so inflammatory that I can't in good conscience walk away without putting in my two cents. A ...

Very excited to announce that the erotic romance novel I co-authored with fellow Bransforumer Karen Booth (Karenbb) will be released tomorrow by Ellora's Cave! If you're over 18 and would like to check out the blurb or a brief excerpt you can do so by checking here: http://www.jasminejade.com/p-971...

Closing in on 10k sales by the end of the month (over not quite 6 months). Unfortunately, my checks still don't have lots of 1's and no zeroes at all. Two's, three's, eight's, those I got. (private joke between about five of us)

This is about the coolest thing I've heard in a long time. Congratulations, Margo!! Thanks, Brenda. :) It's actually not an easy decision to make. I usually like to play it safe. Yet all of the most amazing things that have happened in my life have been the result of taking chances (even when peopl...

For what it's worth, my pen name stuff is all priced $2.99 to $8.99, and the $2.99 stuff would be novellas. 25-30% of my sales are the $8.99's. I'm on target to hit 10,000 total sales next month. It's looking like May for quitting my day job. I'm still strongly of the belief that if you don't value ...

Writing. I make the same with writing now as I do with my day job as a resource analyst. Its time to start looking at quitting the day job, but I'll probably spend at least the next couple of months socking more away in the savings account.

I don't think lowering the price will help. A recent reader survey for a different genre noted that readers associate very low prices with low quality. I wouldn't go 99 cents or $2.99 for a novel. I want to say (without looking it up) that the survey indicated $3.99 was the floor for what they would...

Best comment so far, from Claudie: He won't die from it.

I will leave everyone to supply their own context to that statement.

Cool!, I have story engineering coming in a few days, from Amazon. Donald Maass's book "Writing the Breakout Novel," is on hold at the library. Looks like I'm on the right track. :D Does Margo know Mr. Maass?(ps- how do I pronounce that?) Cheers, Steve Eee, it's hard to describe how to pr...

Bump for participants.

Regarding series, you'll also find readers who say they won't begin a new series until it has a certain number of titles out or even until it's finished. They're tired of writers who either never finish a series or drag out a series that was advertised as 3 books into 10+. **cough**Jordan**cough**Ma...

trixie wrote:*throws secret Maasskateer hand sign*

Yes, we are officially a gang now. A gang of writers. Watch your step, dawg, or you'll end up in our novels. (A bullet can kill you but humiliation by the written word lasts forever, n'mean, dawg?)

January was a good month - 2nd best so far. I sold around 300 books, and made around $800. UK sales are growing faster than anything else, which is interesting, because I've never done anything to push my books there. Which gets me thinking... why promote at all! Yeah, been asking people that for a...

I'm going to answer for Margo and I because I'm fairly confident she'd agree with me on this one... (and if not, I'm guessing it's at least in her top 3) Donald Maass's Writing the Breakout Novel. LOL. It's #3 on my list. #1 is Donald Maass's Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook . #2 is Plot And Str...

Ugly. And probably not the last casualty.