Who is the woman hero?
Kate blogs here about her main character, Yamabuki, how she’s different from other woman warriors, and how 12th-century Japan isn’t quite like what you’ve seen in most samurai movies.
Cold Blood, by Katherine M. Lawrence, is now available on Kindle
Our new title, Cold Blood, by Katherine M. Lawrence, is out on Kindle (and Kindle Unlimited)! “Ever kill a man?” The fencing master’s eyes searched hers. “I can see you haven’t. That takes cold blood.” On Kindle now. Coming very soon in hardback and paperback.
Cold Saké has a new cover
The novelette by Katherine M. Lawrence is available on Kindle now, and will be releasing it in paperback and on other ebook platforms in the coming weeks! Watch this space, or for the first word, sign up for our newsletter. (Watch this space. A new …
Katherine M. Lawrence's new novella Cold Blood coming out this week
The book will be available on Kindle, hardback and paperback. More info (with links) soon. Also, we will be releasing Cold Saké in hardback and paper, as well as ePub format. Both books will be available online and for order from your local bookshop.
Download Samurai novelette Cold Saké — FREE* now on Kindle Unlimited
Update: The novelette is no longer on KU. It’s still available on Kindle, though. As soon as Cold Blood (Kate’s next book) is out, we will be rolling out Cold Sake in paperback, Nook, iBooks, and Kobo. —LS Have you joined the free trial of Kindle Unlimited? If …
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What is vanity press? (The Case Against Author Solutions, Part 1: The Numbers)
Independent publishing and self-publishing should not be confused with vanity publishing, which is a completely different animal, epitomized by Author Solutions.
Times for submissions
Call me old school. I started writing on typewriters. And that meant Courier was the font. (Actually I liked Elite a bit more, but I digress.) You typed your pages in Courier, and you typed them double spaced. If you search online for manuscript formatting …
Independent Publishing vs. Traditional Publishing: Pros and Cons
After months or years of writing and rewriting, editing and revising, reworking and polishing, you’ve finally done it—you’ve completed your novel! You have your manuscript in hand, substantial in heft, ready for the next step. Now what? What is an author to do with a …
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E is for eBooks
For decades, the music industry believed that what they sold were albums (on vinyl and then on CD). When mp3s became a standard electronic file format for audio files, the music studios had no idea what to do. The idea that they were selling music …
The Disruptive “D”
Publishing is undergoing disruption. Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen introduced the world to his analysis of technological changes in his seminal “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” where be coined the word (and idea) of “disruption.” Long standing firms (incumbents) suddenly lose the power and dominance to …