Head on over to the facebook page of The Cowboy and Vampire Thrillers Series for the 6,000th “like” celebration. The authors are giving away a signed copy of both books! http://www.facebook.com/cowboyandvampire.
Pumpjack Press is also thrilled to announce that our very own authors Hays and McFall are putting the finishing touches on the first draft of the third book in this series Kirkus Reviews called “riveting!” We can’t wait to get our hands on the third book. The plot is a secret even from us, but we hear the action takes Lizzie and Tucker out of LonePine, Wyoming, all the way to Washington, D.C., and then back west again to Astoria, Oregon. But this time, the threats to their unusual romance come from a new source: inside themselves.
As the stigma of indie publishing disappears and the sea of traditional, indie and hybrid books mixes and deepens, the challenge of connecting author with reader (make that readers) will grow even harder. We suspect that when we look back from the year 2030, we’ll likely find that the big winners of the early 21st century publishing industry paradigm shift were those who figured out “novel” ways to triumph in the game of discoverability. It’s a wide open field, reminiscent of the days of the wild west. And just like that era, the winners will need a combination of boldness combined with smarts and speed.
Location, location, location; my father’s cautionary advice to me upon purchasing a first home. “Nothing else matters, Kath, location, location, location.” It was good advice, I was glad to have it. The advice, it turns out, is relevant to a novel’s setting too, but since Dad had no similar editorial advice, Clark and I learned this literary lesson — and the ripple effects on everything from post-publishing marketing strategies to taxes — on our own.
