Category: Indie Author
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Checking in/Looking Ahead
It’s been a whirlwind few weeks as the holiday season flipped to the new year, and I found myself thrown back into the desert in Jeddah to finish up my final semester of teaching theatre here. Yes, it’s time to move on. Moving on to what is the next big question. I’ve jumped into some…
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What more could a writer want?
Every once in a while I receive a review from a reader of one of my works that makes it all worthwhile. What’s the it? The writing process, the production of the book, the maddening and frustating promotion process, the long wait for sales, the doubts and dreams which altenate in my mind … and…
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My Christmas Collection
I guess it’s no secret that I love Christmas. I’ll be travelling back to the U.S. in two days to celebrate the holidays. I’ve written quite a bit about Christmas. I just published my first Christmas novel recently. I’ve previously published three completely different and unique Christmas short stories on Kindle. Two are historical fiction…
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Limited Sale!
Here’s your chance to grab some great Kindle books for cheap! THE AFRICAN CONNECTION – Book 2 of THE FORGOTTEN CHILD TRILOGY is free on Kindle through December 11. And, my brand new Christmas novel CHRISTMAS IN ’45 is discounted to only $0.99 through the weekend. Grab yourself a copy and pass the word on…
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Why a Writer’s Brain
I was in class the other day. One of my students was reading one of my scripts out loud that his group will be performing in the coming weeks. At one point he stopped and looked over at me and asked, “How do you think of this? This is good. I never would have thought…
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A New Horizon
There’s a Jewish saying that I used as part of my theatre shows a few years back: “Man plans, God laughs.” Who can argue with that? We control so little in our paltry hands. Of course, we’re not privy to the future, but we are privy to our passions and our gifts. We were made…
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Christmas in ’45 – The New Novel This Week
An exciting week! October 1! My brand new novel CHRISTMAS IN ’45 releases this Saturday on Amazon Kindle. What about paperback? Well, it slipped out early and is available now. If you are interested in grabbing a FREE Kindle version of the novel, you have three more days to enter the Goodreads giveaway. I started…
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$300 Back to School Giveaway – Join in!
I’ve teamed up with TheKindleBookReview, and you can win yourself a $300 Amazon Gift Card and help promote my new novel at the same time! There it is! See it on the right? Christmas in ’45. It’s set to release on October 1, and I’m already getting some great feedback from some of my advanced…
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Reading the Christmas Proof
I’ve been reading the printed proof of my new novel. It releases October 1. My first Christmas novel. A historical fiction account of a little girl trying to make sense of her father’s death in World War II. A proof read for me is a post-edit final-type of read. (Though it may be correctly stated…
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Release Day – THE LOST LINEUP – Novel #11 is Here!
Every new novel release day is a celebration of sorts. A celebration of an idea being brought from infancy to fruition. It’s hard for me to imagine that I ever would have gotten to this point – eleven novels out of my mind and into the world, but I’m grateful for the creative journey I’ve…
Author Mark W Sasse 