Category - Admin Stuff

Freshly published today, an anthology I co-edited: Shared Nightmares!

Twelve authors— including New York Times bestseller Larry Correia, #1 Amazon bestseller Michaelbrent Collings, Prometheus Award winner Sarah Hoyt, Campbell Award nominee Max Gladstone, and Hugo nominee Howard Tayler—take you to the dark side of the dream world, where phantasms and fears become frighteningly real.

And here’s the big news for LBC readers: I’ll give you a copy FREE.

FREE, folks! FREE!!1!

Email me at nshumate at gmail dot com, and I’ll give you the coupon code to download the ebook free from Smashwords.

“But Nathan, what’s the catch?”

Only this: By taking this free copy, you commit to posting a review of it somewhere — on Facebook or Amazon or Smashwords or Goodreads or your blog or a forum or whatever — within the next six weeks.  Note that I’m not requiring you to post a good review of it (though I’m expecting it, because I think it’s an awesome anthology), just an honest one.

And if you’re not up for deadlined reading, you can still buy yourself a copy, in print at Amazon, or ebook at Amazon or Smashwords.

That’s the name of a new tumblr blog I created over the weekend on a whim, featuring those items on Ebay which the sellers frankly admit they can’t identify but will sell anyway.  It’s going to show up on the update feed on the right soon, but you can check it out in the meantime.

…The friends and family of an aggrieved self-publisher have showed up in the comments to this post and are ever-so-patiently telling me that I am a rude bully, with an overtone of “check your privilege” to everything. You might be amused.

One of LousyBookCovers.com’s alumni, Kris Tualla, has written a related blog post for her publisher:

Judge a Book By Its Cover

They grow up so fast…

Edit: And another one, by Karl Bunker at The Indie Author:

A cover for your self-published book

(Of note is the complete absence of the word “bollocks” in the second one, in stark contrast to the first.)

…a big thanks to DED for his service as Substitute Moderator & Fascist-in-Chief while I was on vacation (plus the couple of extra days it took me to wade through my email).

May I introduce to you — DED! A frequent commenter around here, he will be acting as moderator and head mallard while I’m on vacation, approving comments from new poster and checking the spam filter. Be gentle with him, okay?

Howdy, folks! I’m going to be on vacation for just over two weeks in July, so I’m looking for a Junior Assistant Moderator for that time period. I’ve already got all the posts queued for the month, so the only duties would be to approve non-spam comments from first-time commenters.

Qualifications? Familiarity with WordPress, and enough time to check your email for moderation notices a couple of times a day.  If you’re interested, nshumate at gmail dot com.