![]() However, is the lower price actually benefitting the writer? That's a more difficult question to untangle. In both the first piece and the second piece, case studies indicate that sales jump when the price is lowered from $2.99 to 99 cents. Then, Chuck dropped the price to 99 cents, and the sales jumped to 124 copies in 4 days (on pace to sell 200+ copies in one week).Ĭhuck's post also tackles some questions that I think are rather interesting concerning how to price e-books: Are you chasing readers or money? Basically, the book was selling 40 copies per week. ![]() In the post, Chuck breaks down the results of lowering the price point on one of his novels. The second piece was brought to my attention by ChuckWendig: " The $0.99 Sale: Results Are In," which is a post by Chuck on his Terrible Minds blog. But if that's what a writer needs to do to sell books, then that might be the only way to build a readership. The lower price points sell better, but they also de-value the product. In the article, Carnoy looks at some case studies of how some authors have lowered their e-book prices to 99 cents, despite the fact that the optimal royalty from Amazon is for books that are priced at $2.99 or higher. The first piece was brought to my attention by JaneFriedman: " The rise of the 99-cent Kindle e-book," by David Carnoy. ![]() However, some recent pieces I've read online has me wondering about what the best pricing strategy might be for e-Books. Of course, writers who publish books probably would like both more money and readers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Review: I am pretty sure I married the straight version of Mr. And while Christmas miracles are being handed out, maybe Toby will get his own dearest wish-to love and be loved by Mr. Toby will need to uncover the darkness in Sean’s past and prove to him that he deserves a second chance at life and at love too. Toby realizes that he alone can save the library-and their head librarian. When Sean is accused of a crime he didn’t commit, he gives up without a fight. ![]() Sean Miggles is also pretty cute-especially for an older guy who wears ties and suit pants every day.īut Sean keeps himself at a distance, and there’s a sadness about him that Toby can’t figure out. Miggles, who is kind, witty, knowlegable about everything, and hopelessly addicted to Christmas. ![]() He especially adores the head librarian, Mr. He spends his days surrounded by books and chatting with the library patrons. Miggles is just about pitch perfect and would be a delightful addition to any Christmas library.īlurb: Toby Kincaid loves being the junior librarian in his hometown of Sandy Lake, Ohio. ![]() ![]() ![]() The current GOP has merely used the methods pioneered by its predecessors, though to newly extreme ends. ![]() As Jentleson shows, since the 1950s, a free-flowing body of relative equals has devolved into a rigidly hierarchical, polarized institution, with both Democrats and Republicans to blame. In Kill Switch, Adam Jentleson argues that shifting demographics alone cannot explain how Mitch McConnell harnessed the Senate and turned it into a powerful weapon of minority rule. ![]() An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy.Įvery major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively white, predominantly male, and radically conservative minority of the American electorate to impose its will on the rest of us. ![]() ![]() ![]() This recipe comes to us from Mihaela Metaxa Albu of Blondelish.įor a video showing how to make this recipe, click here.įor more recipes with cherry tomatoes, click here. Mihaela Metaxa-Albu (Author of I Cheese) Mihaela Metaxa-Albu’s Followers (11) Mihaela Metaxa-Albu edit data Combine Editions Mihaela Metaxa-Albu’s books Average rating: 3.79 56 ratings 8 reviews 3 distinct works Similar authors Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. A healthy lunch, side dish, or appetizer in just 15 minutes flat! Cherry tomatoes, avocados and corn make it a colorful plate. It starts with a fun and zesty, shake-able Italian dressing which is then poured over and mixed into the vegan Texas caviar salad. This recipe for Cowboy Caviar With Italian Dressing is super easy, and crazy delicious even for non-vegans. ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Rosemary Stimola, Stimola Literary Studio. ![]() ![]() However, there’s an acrid edge to the story, as well, which surfaces in Lexi’s bitterness toward her mother and means that some of the points Eulberg (Take a Bow) makes about the pressure to be pretty land heavily. She is the author of The Lonely Hearts Club, Prom & Prejudice, Take a Bow, Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality, and Better Off Friends. This novel has its share of funny moments and will particularly appeal to girls who, like the heroine, see beauty contests as exploitative. Hola Elige tu dirección Todos los departamentos ES. Although she enjoys her newfound popularity and the attentions of a football player, she wonders whether her new friends, who appear to only like her for her looks, are worth having. Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality : Eulberg, Elizabeth: Amazon.es: Libros. Wearing longer lashes, makeup, and skirts, Lexi starts turning heads. Following a friend’s advice to stop hiding behind “messy hair and no makeup,” Lexi undergoes a transformation. Fed up with Mackenzie always being in the limelight (not to mention the money their mother spends on pageants), 16-year-old Lexi decides it’s her turn to shine. Since her parents’ divorce, Lexi’s main role in her family has been to support Mackenzie, her seven-year-old “beauty queen” sister. ![]() ![]() Hoffman’s redemptive story of a fiercely independent woman adds an engrossing, worthwhile chapter to the series. ![]() ![]() While the musings on “enchantments and remedies” grow repetitive, Maria’s page-turning adventure is thoroughly enjoyable. The observations of love in all its forms were what I needed to hear. This emotional novel has depth, and I came away with the desire to wear my red boots with pride and the lessons of the Owens are tattooed in my heart. As Maria’s story takes her from England to Massachusetts and New York, Hoffman offers an eye-opening account of how single women were treated in the 17th century, particularly when their knowledge or intelligence was deemed threatening. Alice Hoffman is a queen of magical storytelling, making Magic Lessons a pleasure to read. Maria becomes ensnared in a complicated relationship and has a daughter out of wedlock. ![]() After Maria is reclaimed at age 10 by her birth mother, Rebecca, another Nameless Art practitioner, Maria comes to understand-like other heroines in Hoffman’s “Magic” books-that love can be unexpectedly overpowering. As a girl, Maria has an innate sense of magic and emulates Hannah’s desire to help the scores of women who secretly come to her for help-mostly for problems with their love lives. Maria is discovered as an infant by Hannah Owens, a practitioner of the “Nameless Art” who raises Maria and teaches her natural remedies and witchcraft. Hoffman’s striking latest entry in her Practical Magic series (after The Rules of Magic) turns to 1664 rural England for the origin story of Maria Owens, matriarch of the series’ clan of witches. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her education, at the Ursuline Convent, Waterford, was cut short at the age of 14 when she had to look after mother who suffered from a severe form of rheumatoid arthritis. As a child she enjoyed writing, and gave her parents short stories or essays as Christmas and birthday presents. Her father Fergus Murphy was the county librarian and her mother, Kathleen encouraged her to read and discuss books. Waterford, the only child of Dubliners, Fergus and Kathleen Murphy. In 2021, she won the prestigious Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing.ĭervla Murphy grew up in Lismore, Co. In 2019, the Royal Geographical Society celebrated her work with the Ness Award for the “popularisation of geography through travel literature”. ![]() In 1979, she won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs memorial prize for A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s (1978) written after time spent with members of the Protestant and Catholic communities there. ![]() ![]() Perhaps I went into this book with my expectations too high. ![]() Here we learn about the revolution that remade Lucile into a society where Jam could thrive as her authentic self. Here we see where Bitter’s name comes from and where the angels come from. So, I was thrilled to see that we get Jam’s mother, Bitter’s, story. It is so much more than your typical young adult novel. ![]() It hits on themes of pain, abuse, redemption, and reconciliation. Pet is gloriously strange and mysterious. To start this review, I have to go back to the first Emezi novel I read, Pet (read that review first!), about a girl named Jam and an angel she accidentally releases from her mother’s painting. ![]() We are each other’s magnitude and bond.” – Akwaeke Emezi, “Bitter”. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl's life. He needs to help her.Įven worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he's convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents' deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can't walk away. But she isn't an ordinary runaway - her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people.įleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. ![]() But Will Robie may have just made the first - and last - mistake of his career. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. America has enemies - ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator follows the story of the Breedloves to reveal how each family member is anchored by the racist conceptions they’ve been convinced of. Pecola struggles under the oppressive weight of her ugliness and wishes for blue eyes to relieve her pressure. While there is nothing about her that is particularly ugly, it is immediately understood by each character that Pecola is and always was ugly. The book centers on Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl who lies firmly outside her community’s beauty standard. The book was ranked 10 on the American Library Association’s most frequently challenged book list from 2010-2019.Īnd that’s a shame because The Bluest Eye is an insightful gem, providing a window into the extent of feelings of shame and self-hatred over skin color that many will never experience and written in an impactful stylistic prose similar to poetry. This is a position The Bluest Eye is frequently found in. Wentzville District Board Member Sandy Garber cited obscenity as the reason for its ban, and said that the book had “no academic value.” That’s because it was recently banned January 20, and then reinstated February 25, from Wentzville schools. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is a novel published in 1970 that has recently gained a lot of attention, especially locally. ![]() |