Category: book promotions

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Launching Fiddling with Death

    The 3rd Thriller in the Josh Kavanagh Series Fiddling With Death’s official book launch started February 10 and ended the 17th, with the earliest reviews any of my books have had. Usually, it takes a month or more after a book launch for the first review to appear. This time, the first four came out […]

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    #1: A Josh Kavanagh Thriller Short Story

    SECOND SHOT The Patriot Oath’s Chapter 3 from Rachel’s POVThis is a Reader Magnet  Suki entered the dining room, looking excited for the first time since the assault. “He’s here!” she said, her voice animated. The chatter around the table stopped. Rachel thought, Who got her excited like that? The only empty chairs at the […]

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    My Battle between Building an Author’s Email List or finishing Fiddling with Death

    Since my first novel, My Splendid Concubine, came out in December 2007, I’ve done almost everything legal to promote my books. Still, there’s one promotion method I haven’t tried, creating an author’s email list that includes free reader magnets. “An author’s email list is a collection of email addresses from readers who have opted-in to […]

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The irony of digital devices eating our brains

    To entertain us 24/7, and allegedly make our lives easier and happier, we are only making our species dumber, disturbed, and irrationally more dangerous. With the arrival of AI, I think our biological brains are going to shrink a lot more until all that’s left is our reptilian brain where fight or flight resides. The […]

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    An Author Interview with Lloyd Lofthouse at the HBS Author’s Spotlight

    What is Lloyd Lofthouse’s next book about?

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    When the Muse Strikes and A-Cappella Hijacked the Next Novel

    I turned 21 in Vietnam where I’d hold a grenade with the pin pulled to make sure if I fell asleep while on watch, the blast would wake the others.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Are you self-published? I am!

    Twenty percent of indie authors earn nothing from their books. What do traditional published authors earn?

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Downsizing, cows, a one-sided shootout, and The Wedding

    During renovations there was a shooting three houses down when a father and son got into an argument causing the police to be called to deal with the son waving a pistol around.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Book Promotion for “The Redemption of Don Juan Casanova” on Sale for $0.99

    American clubs like the one in this novel have been the center of a cultural struggle pitting the forces of hedonism, revelry, and sexual liberation against those of socio-sexual stability and control.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Giving away a Concubine 38,892 times in 16 days—Was it worth it?

    Do you think giving away almost 40,000 FREE copies and paying more than $300 for the BookBub ad was worth it?