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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 […]
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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 […]
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Lloyd Lofthouse
You’ve heard of Writer’s Block, right?
Knock-on-wood. As an author, I’ve never had writer’s block. Still, I am a reviewer suffering from being a Clogged Critic. Like being stuck on the freeway with so much traffic, you’re not moving. Why did I say, “knock on wood”? Sorry, I digress. My mind is like that, and it takes the discipline the U.S. […]
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Lloyd Lofthouse
An Author Interview with Lloyd Lofthouse at the HBS Author’s Spotlight
What is Lloyd Lofthouse’s next book about?
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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.
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Lloyd Lofthouse
Are you self-published? I am!
Twenty percent of indie authors earn nothing from their books. What do traditional published authors earn?
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Lloyd Lofthouse
Give the guy a break for having sex at age 15, and then doing it repeatedly
As a young man, in spite of his Methodist conscience, he had bouts of promiscuity.
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Lloyd Lofthouse
Is it wrong to pay an entry fee to a literary contest?
Many legitimate literary contests charge a fee to cover processing expenses and to pay for the prize.
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Lloyd Lofthouse
Twitter Hash Tag Magic for Authors and Bloggers—You Decide
The results show that on those three hash tag days, on average, there were more blog views and more book sales on the three Twitter hash tag days.
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Lloyd Lofthouse
Promoting the Same Book for Seven Years—info for authors
To find readers, authors should be promoting their books.