J.C. Martin, Fighter Writer

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Weekly Writer’s Round-Up + DARKSPELL Release

*For my Coffin Hop post, click HERE.

*For my Halloween Hop post, click HERE.

Yee-haw! Welcome to the Weekly Writer’s Round-up, where I lasso up the week’s latest news and rootin’-tootin’ writers’ articles on the Net!

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Happy Halloween! Before I move on to the news haunting the online world this week, I’m thrilled to have hit 500 blog followers! Yippieee…!! I know it’s just a fraction of the followers on really popular blogs, but I’m grateful for small achievements. :)

So thank you, thank you, thank you, guys! This calls for a celebratory giveaway, in conjunction with a milestone birthday I have coming up in November. Watch this space. I’ll be scheming…

Darkspell

First and foremost, Darkspell, by the awesome Elizabeth Mueller, launches TODAY! Pop by her blog, where she has a celebration planned with lots of giveaways!

Blurb:

Winter Sky believes she is everything ordinary . . . until she is kissed by Alex Stormhold. As seer of Stormhold Coven, Alex is sworn to be Winter’s protector against the darkness that hunts her. Violently thrust into a magical realm she always thought impossible, she stumbles upon a disturbing secret of her own.

Will love prove thicker than magick?

Purchase link: Get your copy from Amazon HERE

An interesting article from FutureBook: should publishers sell their own e-readers? Some pros and cons are discussed.

Also on FutureBook, a book on how the new Kindle Fire could aid cross-platform publishing.

More from FutureBook: how lucrative is free-mium fiction? This first in a series of blog posts on publishing in China looks at the popularity of serialised online fiction.

Book trailers: are they fun or function? Publishing Perspectives discusses.

Here’s a writing contest some of you may be interested in entering: organised the East India Press, the contest is open to stories of no more than 2,500 words. There are no submission fees, and the winner gets $1,000, the opportunity to have their story featured as the opener to a novel by David Farland, and it will be published as a standalone e-book. Click HERE for more details, as well as tips on writing prize-winning fiction. Contest deadline: March 1st, 2012.

Today’s the last day of the Coffin Hop and the Halloween Hop. Go there now to meet some new and talented fellow writers! Competitions-wise, I’m holding a giveaway in conjunction with Coffin Hop. Find it HERE. It ends tonight, with winners announced tomorrow.

I’m also running a Facebook contest: ‘Like’ my FB author page for the chance to win an e-book copy of The Doll. Also ends today.

Finally, there’s one day to enter the Trick or Treat Spooktacular! I do appreciate everyone’s support so far, so this is the final push to send The Doll‘s sales, and the prize pot value, up!

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20 Responses to “Weekly Writer’s Round-Up + DARKSPELL Release”

  1. DL Hammons says:
    October 31, 2011 at 12:15 PM

    Happy Halloween to you as well!!

    I'm wishing Elizabeth and her new book great success! :)

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  2. Joshua says:
    October 31, 2011 at 1:21 PM

    Looks like I have a few sites to visit today. And thank you for the news about the EIP contest. I wonder if I can use my REN3 piece…?

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  3. Elizabeth Mueller says:
    October 31, 2011 at 1:51 PM

    Hi, Jc! Thank you for helping out, you ROCK! :)

    DL, thank you!

    ♥.•*¨Elizabeth¨*•.♥

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  4. Budd says:
    October 31, 2011 at 2:13 PM

    future book is pretty good, Thanks for informing me that they exist.

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  5. Laila says:
    October 31, 2011 at 3:25 PM

    Happy Halloween! I'm visiting you from Elizabeth's blog. Thanks for the cool sites. :)

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  6. Mary says:
    October 31, 2011 at 4:22 PM

    Congrats to Elizabeth! Woot!

    Although Amazon is doing some great things for writers — allowiing us access to an audience on a worldwide scale — sometimes they make me a little nervous. They've been very shrewd, but any industry needs diversity and choices. So, I'm hoping Amazon doesn't choke off our choices.

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  7. Michelle Muto says:
    October 31, 2011 at 6:03 PM

    Happy Halloween, J.C.!

    Congrats on reaching 500 followers. That's huge!

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  8. J.L. Campbell says:
    October 31, 2011 at 6:39 PM

    Thanks for the round-up, J.C.

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  9. Budd says:
    October 31, 2011 at 8:38 PM

    Just, so you know, check your email for an amazon gc. Apparently it is the only way to gift an E-book to the UK as they do not have the give this book as a gift function.

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  10. Ella says:
    October 31, 2011 at 9:29 PM

    Thanks for sharing! Happy Halloween to you n' yours~ Nice to meet you~

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  11. sue says:
    October 31, 2011 at 10:48 PM

    WOW 500 – awesome – and well deserved :D

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  12. Amberr Meadows says:
    October 31, 2011 at 11:03 PM

    I'm here from the blog hop, and I love your blog!

    My favorite scary book is IT (scared the crap out of me when I was a kid), movie that horrified me most was Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween, and I did not dress up this year, because I'm lame. Maybe next year ;-)

    Happy Halloween!

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  13. Emy Shin says:
    October 31, 2011 at 11:10 PM

    I've been hearing about DARKSPELL on a few blog and it sounds very interesting. :)

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  14. @Nick_Rolynd says:
    November 1, 2011 at 1:18 AM

    Happy Halloween! Thanks for the info. =)

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