Posted by Amy Leigh Strickland
August 30, 2012
If you’re at-all into Indie Publishing, you probably have read one of the articles about our own, nerdier doping scandal in the last few weeks. The New York Times ran a piece called “The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy”, featuring an opportunistic man, Todd Rutherford, who gets paid to write 5-star reviews of books for authors…
Posted by Amy Leigh Strickland
August 28, 2012
If you own one of my books as a dead-tree version, you can look at the bottom corner of the back page and see a photograph of me with awesome Grecian eye makeup and olive leaves in my hair. That photo is from a reference image photoshoot by Terry Strickland for The Incognito Project. That…
Posted by Amy Leigh Strickland
August 18, 2012
I’ve heard a few of my adult friends expressing frustration with the sheer amount of YA fiction out there right now. It’s a growing market– one of the only growing markets– and sometimes we grown-ups get frustrated with having to sift through mountains of high-school-themed work to read about adults behaving like adults. After all,…
Posted by Amy Leigh Strickland
August 17, 2012
For Olympia Heights: The Pantheon, the Kindle release and the paperback release were concurrent. When it came time to release Olympia Heights: The Weight of the World, I had a decision to make. I could delay the overall release, or get the Kindle version out there. You see, my publisher is a five-man operation, so…
Posted by Amy Leigh Strickland
August 13, 2012
Wait! Don’t click away! The money is not for me. It’s for my mother-in-law, and it’s only as much as you want to give. A dollar will do. Will you just listen for a moment? If you’re still reading this, I suppose that means I haven’t scared you away. Good. I’ll try to make this…
Posted by Amy Leigh Strickland
August 3, 2012
We’re ordering a proof of the paperback for Olympia Heights: The Weight of the World tonight. By this time next week we should (hopefully) have approved a proof and posted the book for sale. That’s right, ol’ fashioned paper book readers: Olympia Heights 2 is finally here for you. We’re sorry about the delay. There was some…