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Ah, those Loveswept novels…

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Am I the only one who remembers them? Fabulous reads. And they’re back, though not quite the same. You won’t be buying them at your local grocery story.

From the AP (New York):

A romance imprint that helped started the careers of such writers as Janet Evanovich and Tami Hoag is being revived.
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The Random House Publishing Group announced Wednesday that Loveswept will be back in business this summer as a digital-only imprint after a 12-year hiatus.

Read the rest of the article HERE.

Author Accused of Plagiarism

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Erotica author Elizabeth Summers, author of dozens of “Adult Fantasies” erotic stories has been accused of plagiarizing Elliot Mabeuse’s A Good Student. At this point, I cannot prove nor disprove the allegations. But there are plenty of people who’ve already made up their minds. I like to think I give people the benefit of the doubt. In this case, I welcome Ms. Summers to respond to the accusation. Did she plagiarize the book? Didn’t she? What is the truth?

To be fair, I also welcome Elliot Mabeuse to comment as well.

After search the words Elizabeth Summers and plagiarism, I found the following “review” on one of her book’s Amazon page. It would see this isn’t the first time she’s been accused of plagiarism…

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Ebooks and Libraries. A Match Made in Heaven…or Hell?

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For those who don’t know, there’s been a lot of talk lately about ebook sales to libraries. It isn’t that libraries don’t want to offer ebooks to their patrons. They do. The problem is the effect those sales will have on publishers’ bottom lines.

As  JULIE BOSMAN of the New York Times put it in her article,
As Library E-Books Live Long, Publisher Sets Expiration Date

Imagine the perfect library book. Its pages don’t tear. Its spine is unbreakable. It can be checked out from home. And it can never get lost.

That’s a libraries’ perfect book. Never torn. Never lost. Never needs to be replaced.

That’s also publisher’s worst nightmare.

Publishers need to sell books. Lots of books. And in this wildly changing market, that’s becoming increasingly difficult.

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So what must they do? Adapt? Find a way to make the new market work for them. That’s exactly what HarperCollins is doing, by limiting the number of times any one ebook can be checked out. I’m an author, and a library patron. I can appreciate what they’re trying to do. However, is 26 checkouts really a reasonable limit? According to Bosman’s article, that would allow (assuming a 2 week checkout period) one full year of distribution.

Do libraries restock all their inventory every year? I don’t think there’s a library that exists that could afford to do that. Are the ebooks selling at a lower price than the paperback or hard cover version? I can’t tell you that.

Clearly, HarperCollins doesn’t want libraries to carry their ebooks. Right? Maybe not.

“We have serious concerns that our previous e-book policy, selling e-books to libraries in perpetuity, if left unchanged, would undermine the emerging e-book ecosystem, hurt the growing e-book channel, place additional pressure on physical bookstores, and in the end lead to a decrease in book sales and royalties paid to authors,” the company said in a statement.

The may have a point. But 26? Really?

As both an author and patron, I hope other publishers don’t follow in their footsteps–setting such a low limit on ebook checkouts. But if they do, I’m sure someone–indie authors, perhaps–will be happy to jump in, find a way to make the situation mutually beneficial and gleefully cart those royalty checks to the bank.

Me, Myself and I: A Tale of Three Authors

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Once upon a time there was a woman. She was a wife. She was a mother of a large brood of loud, crazy kids. And she was a writer.

One day, the woman decided she wanted to find some kind of work she could do from home. She loved reading romance novels, and she’d always been a pretty decent writer–if you take into account the award she won back in 5th grade. So she got on her computer and started writing a book.

Bored yet? You are? Okay, I’ll fast forward.

Before I–I mean, she–knew it, she was writing three different kinds of books, tailored to three very different markets. And so, she adopted not one, not two, but three distinct identities under which she published her books. There was Sydney, who wrote heart warming, funny, quirky romance novels; Tami, who wrote urban fantasy novels; and Tawny, who wrote deviant smut.

Now, Sydney/Tami/Tawny faced the challenge of marketing her names. Should she keep them distinct, avoiding cross-promoting of any kind? Or should she let the world know she was writing under three different pseudonyms? She took a look at the advantages and disadvantages of each option.

Keeping them separate:

Advantages
*No worries about readers being confused by differences in book content and/or voice
*Allows the new identity to start with a “clean slate”, meaning she would be completely new, fresh and exciting to reviewers, readers and book sellers.
*Allows each identity to focus on networking that is more specifically related to her books.
*Some publishers and/or agents might put pressure on an author to keep each identity separate, and failing to do so could undermine their efforts to promote the author’s work to booksellers and distributors.

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*The stress of playing three distinct roles in cyberspace is nothing to sneeze at.

Sydney/Tami/Tawny made a choice. In her case, the disadvantages of keeping them separate outweighed the advantages. Particularly, she was concerned about the time required to update blogs, facebook pages, Twitter accounts and websites. What advice would she give to writers considering taking a second or third penname? Let’s ask her…

1. Determine whether the new name is necessary. This is the biggie, IMO. The most important question to ask. If the author is writing erotica and YA, that’s a no-brainer. But sometimes, it’s not that cut and dried. To decide if you need to adopt a new pseudonym, you need to have a fairly firm grip on your readers’ expectations. This is, in a nutshell, your “branding”. What are your best selling books? What genre are they? What subgenre are they? Is there any specific content that appears in the books, content a reader would miss if it wasn’t there? On the flip side of that question: is there content a reader would find disturbing/unexpected (in a bad way) if it appeared in your book? In my case, I write a lot of BDSM and menage. My erotica readers expect to find those elements in my books. So if I write a book without it, or totally without sex, I feel it’s better to publish it under a different name. I don’t want to confused my readers.

2. Determine whether you MUST keep the identities separate. Is your publisher or agent telling you to take a new penname for some specific reason? If the answer to that question is yes, you’re probably going to have to keep them separate.

3. Create one main website to promote all of your identities. If there is no concrete reason why you must keep your multiple identities separate, I would suggest marketing them together for the reasons stated above. After all, your primary job as a writer is to write books, not waste precious hours blogging/Tweeting/Facebooking under multiple names.

Within the world of romance publishing, you can find many examples of well-known authors who have adopted second and/or third pseudonyms. Nora Robers and Jayne Ann Krentz instantly come to mind. Clearly, if they decided it was necessary, helpful, it is an option worth considering in some cases. But understand the challenges. Building a readership from scratch, building a platform and attracting followers takes a ton of time and a financial commitment.

Best of luck!

Avon Romance’s New EPublishing Imprint

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The cyber world is all a-buzz with news of Avon Romance’s newest project–an ebook/POD publishing imprint, Impulse. From Impulse’s page on avonromance.com:

Welcome to Avon Impulse

Romance readers know what’s hot…in books, in technology, in trends. Among the first to embrace books digitally, they have encouraged publishers to push the envelope editorially, exploring new subgenres and new formats. With the evolved reader in mind, Avon is introducing a digital imprint, Avon Impulse. This format will allow Avon to publish more quickly, with an eye to what’s new in fiction and romance, delivering fresh, exciting content directly each month to the digital devices of today’s savviest readers.

Also found on this page is a submission form. This form, which includes detailed questions about the book, including tense, narrative, characters, best scene and best dialogue, is the vehicle through which all submissions will be delivered. Also on this page, you can find a list of FAQ’s, that address questions about the reason why Avon has decided to launch an epublishing line, royalty rates, editing, copyright registration and marketing, among others.

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A Lady’s Wish by Katharine Ashe is up for preorder on Kindle and Nook. The price is an unexpected $1.99–low by New York publishing standards.

Harlequin (Carina), Dorchester (they’ve shifted away from mass market into epub and POD) and now Avon. That’s three major houses moving into the epublishing arena by starting epublishing lines/sites. Makes me wonder…is anyone over at Warner (Grand Central) kicking themselves about shutting down iPublish? Does anyone, but me, remember iPublish?

The Hot Topic of The Day: The Erosion of eBook Prices

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You can’t go on the Kindle Boards or read some of Publishing’s most influential blogs lately without running across an article about the falling prices of ebooks.

Nathan Bransford, the former literary agent, gives his take on pricing: http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2011/03/amanda-hocking-and-99-cent-kindle.html

On BoingBoing, the question is asked, Will all digital books eventually cost 99 cents?

On The Technium, the author talks about why he believes all books will eventually be priced at .99. He cites Konrath.

(Let’s take a little detour for a moment here. I have some trouble with the example because it doesn’t take into consideration the difference in royalties paid at the different prices. According to his blog, Joe Konrath’s book The List was selling 40 copies per day at a price of $2.99. He then reduced the price to .99 and is selling 620. That’s a huge difference in quantity sold. However, as you’ll see, it makes a smaller difference in royalties earned.

At the original price, Joe Konrath was earning 70% of 40×2.99, or $83.72
At the new price, Joe is earning 35% of .99×620, or $214.83

Yes, at the new price, Joe is earning more than twice he was, but he’s not earning the $613 per day the Technium’s blog poster would lead you to believe.)

End of detour. Now back to the original topic…
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So many folks, making so many theories/guesses/speculations about the future of ebooks.

What do I think? I’ll tell you.
I have no magic mirror or crystal ball. The market is shifting, adapting as consumers, readers change their buying habits. Will prices nosedive? Will all books end up selling for $.99? Will the market become saturated, causing further erosion of prices? Will readers eventually, after buying one too many low priced, poorly written wall-banger, start associating low prices with poor quality?

I think we’re all trying to guess where things are heading, we’re all hoping we know how to adapt, but the fact of the matter is, nobody knows. I will say this: ebooks and ebook readers are finally getting the attention they deserve. After years of waiting, anticipating this day (as an epublished author), its finally come. And I’m glad. I’m happy for the opportunities the Kindle and Nook are opening up for authors and for publishers both.

Will there be some growing pains as the market shifts and changes? Absolutely. But to me, the publishing industry/market is like a growing child. It’s going through phases, swinging one way and then another. And those authors, publishers or distributors–who are lucky enough to anticipate the fickle child’s next move will be fortunate enough to reap the rewards. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending upon how you look at it) I don’t believe things will settle down and stabilize for a while yet.

Interesting times, indeed. IMO the secret is flexibility. Keep your eyes and ears open. Bend. Adapt.

And, of course, write one great book and then another and another.

Job Opportunity: Marketing Director

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AudioLark Audio Books and its erotic division AudioMinx published over 70 romance audio books in its first year. Our audio books are available through our own websites and through Audible.com, Amazon, iTunes, Barnes and Noble, BooksAMillion and libraries across North America. Now expanding into ebooks and other fiction genres in addition to romance, AudioLark is poised to grow tremendously in the next twelve months. We are looking for a Marketing Director to grow along with us.

Job Description:

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The Successful Candidate Will Possess the Following Qualifications:

A love of fiction in general and romance novels in particular.

Excellent written and spoken English skills.

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