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Category: Publishing

Sep06 2

The Importance of Doing Your Homework

Posted by Kristen Painter

Publishing is a business. That’s hard to remember sometimes, especially when the writing side of it is often fraught with emotion. Compound that with the fact that women, those most engaged in the writing of romance novels, are raised to believe we need people to like us and that making others happy should come first, […]

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Books, Publishing, Uncategorized
Aug08 4

Audiobooks Part One – Narrators

Posted by Kristen Painter

As an indie author, I love audiobooks. I didn’t expect to love them so much, but I do. A little background first. Many of my traditionally published books were turned into audio, but I had very little say in the process and because the rights were controlled by my publisher, both series were left unfinished […]

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Books, Publishing ACX, audio, audiobooks
Jul26 8

A little publishing advice…

Posted by Kristen Painter

Publishing is a noisy business. People are constantly blogging about what you should do, what you shouldn’t do, how to do all those things right, how to reach more readers, how to build your brand, what the best practices for marketing are, where to advertise, how to advertise, which genres sell the best, what color […]

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Books, Publishing advice, indie publishing, Kristen Painter, publishing

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About Kristen

Kristen is the author of the gothic fantasy series, House of Comarre, from Orbit Books, as well as several other paranormal romance titles.
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