Posted by Julie Ortolon on April 27, 2012
It was a year ago this month that my world changed forever thanks to the ebook revolution. April 2011 was when my sales exploded. I have been reeling – in a good way – ever since. This journey, however, started long before that. It started in the fall of 2009. Back then, I had one [...]
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Posted by Julie Ortolon on January 19, 2012
If you read my last post, Making a Music Soundtrack for a Novel, you know At Last, my new ebook release from Amazon/Montlake, has a companion soundtrack. It includes eight romantic American standards that were recorded by the amazingly talented Barbara Calderaro specifically to go with the story (since my heroine is a singer). The [...]
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Posted by Julie Ortolon on July 8, 2011
As more and more established authors go indie, either by e-pubbing their backlist or taking new material straight to ebook, many of us wonder: What will be the agent’s role in this new publishing frontier? That conversation came up repeatedly during the recent RWA conference in NYC. Among the authors I spoke with, everyone agrees [...]
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Posted by Julie Ortolon on July 5, 2011
This year’s Romance Writer of America conference was an amazing experience for me. I actually feel like I just came home from two separate conferences that happened to be going on at the same time in the same hotel. There was the official RWA conference with workshops, agent/editor appointments, and publisher parties. Then there was [...]
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Posted by Julie Ortolon on June 29, 2011
Okay, technically, it’s Wednesday since it’s after midnight. I’m writing on my iPad by the light of a single lamp since my roomies are asleep. I’m hoarse from talking all day in a bar filled hundreds of women writers and my feet ache from striding around New York in some killer high heels, but my [...]
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Posted by Julie Ortolon on June 28, 2011
I just landed in New York City for the annual Romance Writers of America national conference. Wow how much the world has changed from last year, when the conference was in Disney World. A year ago, I and many authors, were just getting our feet wet releasing our backlist as ebooks. Now, several of us [...]
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Posted by Julie Ortolon on April 18, 2011
I’ve had a wild ride at Amazon ever since they dropped the price of Almost Perfect, book one of my contemporary romance trilogy, to free. I know a lot of you have been asking how the heck did I pull this off. Anyone following the e-book revolution closely knows an individual author self-publishing an ebook [...]
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Posted by Julie Ortolon on March 30, 2011
Romance novel fans are some of the most opinionated readers when it comes to covers. Now that so many romances from the past are coming back as ebooks, I’m dying to hear what readers like to see in ebook covers. Here’s your chance to share your opinions. You’re likes and dislikes could help shape to [...]
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Posted by Julie Ortolon on January 8, 2011
Guest Blog by author Patricia McLinn With opportunities such as this wonderful blog by Julie, authors are reaching out to each other to share lessons learned as we venture into, as Julie’s masthead said “the brave new world of publishing.” We’re rather like westward bound pioneers on the Oregon Trail. We listen to those who [...]
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Tags: epublishing a romance novel, Judith Arnold, novel writing, Patricia McLinn, Patricia Rice, romance novel ebooks, romance novels, self publishing an ebook, Writing | 12 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on June 30, 2010
Publishing your first ebook is a lot like sex. You can read about it all day long, even ask your friends, “what was it like,” but until you’ve actually done it, it remains a big mystery. So here it is, my friends, the nitty-gritty of my first Smashwords experience. Step One: Getting the File If [...]
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