e-books

Apr 2016 16

Penguin & Kensington E-book Mysteries For Earth Day

2016 Articles, Cynthia Chow, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Cynthia Chow

In this our Earth Day issue we are featuring e-books and books that somehow tie in to Earth Day. Here we have reviews of the following e-book mysteries from Penguin & Kensington imprints-For Dead Men Only by Paula Paul, Murder at Morningside by Sandra Bretting, Murder on Wheels by Lynn Cahoon, and Raisin the Dead by Karoline Barrett. Details at the end of this post on how to enter to win e-book copies of all 4 of these mysteries.

Apr 2016 16

Sleuthing Women: 10 First-in-Series Mysteries

2016 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Lois Winston

Back when I penned my first novel at the end of the last century, I thought that being an author meant sitting at my desk writing books. I also thought it was the publisher’s job to promote those books so that we both made money. Silly me! Once upon a time that was true, but by the time I sold my first book, publishers had abdicated this responsibility for all but a handful of their authors. Promotional efforts had become the responsibility of authors.

Apr 2013 20

Celebrate Earth Day With 4 E-Book Mysteries: Reviews/Giveaway

2013 Articles, Cynthia Chow, Going Green, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sandra Murphy

by Cynthia Chow
& Sandra Murphy

One of the ways that KRL is celebrating Earth Day is to focus in this issue only on e-books. Check out these reviews of 4 different mystery novels/novellas that are all available as e-books, some only as e-books, and you can enter to win a copy of all of them at the end of this post: Fatal Debt: A Dana Mackenzie Mystery By Dorothy Howell, The Play of Light and Shadow By Barry Ergang, Flossed by Elaine Macko, and Justified Action by Earl Staggs.

Apr 2013 20

Police Training is Handy in the Changing World of Publishing Or Why I Chose E-Book Publishing

2013 Articles, Going Green, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Kathy Bennett

During one of my first days at the Los Angeles Police Academy, I was taught the phrase, "Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome." At the time, I didn’t know the phrase had been ‘borrowed’ from the United States Marine Corps. What I do know is that the phrase served me well in my years working as a Los Angeles Police Officer.

Jun 2012 30

Digital Ink: What It is, & Why We Wrote It–Making Money With E-Books

2012 Articles, Every Other Book

by Bonnie Hearn Hill
& Christopher Allan Poe

E-books are here. Money is to be made. Put that baby on Kindle and Nook and the other brothers and cousins of the e-book age. You no longer need a big publisher. Isn’t that what what’s-his-name did? Turned down the advance and made a fortune, right? And that woman with the novel no one would publish? She got a couple of million after she published it online. So what’s holding you back?