Tag: kindle

• Indie Authors: Don’t Forget about Your Earlier Releases

  It’s easy for an author to forget about those first couple of books they published while caught up in the frenzy of doing everything possible to promote the newest release. But it would be a mistake to most completely past your former works without trying to make them work for you. One of the best…

  sassevn

  March 19, 2015

  Indie Author, Promotion

  book promotion, ebooks., kindle, marketing ebooks, promoting back catalogue

• New Excerpt from “The Reach of the Banyan Tree”

  In this excerpt, the small teen, Long, who is large in spirit and hatred for the French colonialists, insists on trying to shoot a rifle and almost ends up shooting an Allied plane. Setting: Tan Trao – Tonkin, French Indochina – July 16, 1945. Enjoy. “Can I try?” “We don’t allow skinny school boys to…

  sassevn

  January 22, 2015

  History & Culture, Indie Author, Vietnam

  book excerpt, exclusive excerpt, French Indochina, historical fiction, kindle, The Reach of the Banyan Tree, Vietnam

• Book Review: “If Love is a Crime: A Christmas Story”

  

  Nikita Kinny @ njkinny.blogspot wrote a nice review of my new Christmas story. Here’s her opening paragraph. Please head over and read the full text on her website. Thanks all! Nikita Says: “I have read The Recluse Storyteller by Mark W Sasse and had enjoyed his storytelling style in the book. So, when he told…

  sassevn

  December 17, 2014

  Indie Author, Reviews

  Book review, Christmas, holiday books., IF Love is a Crime, kindle

• Full Circle in One Week. The Story of my New Christmas Story.

  Just a week ago I was sitting in a pool thinking, as I often do before I start writing. As I previously mentioned, I was planning out 2015 and had decided to turn my one short play, “If Love is a Crime, String Me Up” into a Christmas story to publish in November of 2015.…

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  December 8, 2014

  Indie Author

  99 cent books, Christmas stories 2014, Christmas story, holiday stories, kindle, new release, short story

• 1 Day Left – “The Reach of the Banyan Tree” @ 99 cents

  Last chance to pick up a great read at a super great price. After Dec 8th, the Kindle price will re-settle back in at its normal $2.99. If you like any of the following genres, you should give it a try. It’s a true mix of: historical fiction contemporary romance contemporary fiction love story war…

  sassevn

  December 7, 2014

  Indie Author, Promotion

  99 cent reads, bargain kindle books, kindle, kindle countdown, The Reach of the Banyan Tree, Vietnam, WWII

• Blitz Publishing – My First Christmas Story Soon!

  It’s November 30th. I’m sitting in the pool at the Hard Rock Hotel just thinking as I usually do. Rehashing plot lines and pondering random story ideas. My mind happened upon one of the short plays I had written and produced a short while ago called “If Love is a Crime, String Me Up.” It’s…

  sassevn

  December 1, 2014

  Indie Author

  Christmas story, independent publishing, indie authors, kindle, new Christmas story, new Christmas story 2014, publishing, quick publishing, short story

• It truly is a good deal! 99 cent 5-STAR read! Time is running out!

  

  What can you get for 99 cents? A candy bar. A can of soda-pop. A newspaper (just not on Sunday). One song on iTunes. (or maybe not anymore) Yet, here you have it: hours of hours of engaging entertainment for only 99 cents! Right now – for the next 48 hours – the new release The…

  sassevn

  September 5, 2014

  Indie Author, Promotion

  99 cent books, book promotion, contemporary fiction, historical fiction, KDP, kindle, Kindle countdown deal, romance books

• “Banyan Tree” featured on Digital Book Today new releases

  My new release, The Reach of the Banyan Tree, is featured alongside a bunch of other new releases on Digital Book Today. They call it a romance & historical. That’s true, but it’s more than just that. It’s a generational tale that encompasses the time period from 1945 until 2014. I suppose that’s about seventy years or…

  sassevn

  August 2, 2014

  Promotion

  amazon kindle, book releases, digital book today, kindle, new releases, The Reach of the Banyan Tree

• Oh yeah, I have a book release soon.

  I feel like I’ve fallen off the grid this past week for a very good reason – my daughter’s wedding. It was the most perfect day. Touching ceremony and wonderful celebratory reception. And now I realize that I have eight days until the release of The Reach of the Banyan Tree. OK, time to get…

  sassevn

  June 24, 2014

  Current Events

  historical fiction, kindle, new book release July 2014