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Read an Ebook Week on Smashwords

Ebook Week Smashwords Banner

March has just arrived and Smashwords is kicking in the month with their yearly promotion ‘Read an Ebook Week’! This week is designed to spread the love of digital books and give people plenty of opportunity to download thousands of free and heavily discounted books. I participated last year and won’t miss it this year, either!

The promotion runs from 2.-8. March.

For the next week, you can find a wide range of discounted ebooks on Smashwords, each with a coupon code attached to their book page. Check out the entire promotion catalogue here.

Of course, you won’t have to look long if you’re looking for your next fantasy read! Check out my own selection for ‘Read an Ebook Week 2014’:

Discounted titles

Redesign Fantasy CoverHuntress

100% off! Get it for FREE!

Click here to download it from Smashwords

Resounding Echo CoverResounding Echo

100% off! Get it for FREE!

Click here to download it from Smashwords

Silent SoundSilent Sound Cover Angel

75% off! Heavy discount!

Click here to download it from Smashwords

Demon’s DanceBook Cover Demon

100% off! Get it for FREE!

Click here to download it from Smashwords

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Smashwords Sale

Smashwords Sale

The other day, I was well on my way to boring myself into madness and wanted to cheer myself up. And who doesn’t like a good sale?

So, because I got bored, you now have the chance to get ALL my current titles for FREE or at a heavy discount! And guess what? The sale lasts 10 days, so there’s no excuse not to get over to Smashwords if you’re looking to freshen up your ebook collection!

Discounted titles

Resounding Echo CoverResounding Echo

100% off! Get it for FREE!

Coupon code: UJ82P

Click here to download it from Smashwords

Silent SoundSilent Sound Cover Angel

75% off! Heavy discount!

Coupon code: HB69Y

Click here to download it from Smashwords

Redesign Fantasy CoverHuntress

100% off! Get it for FREE!

Coupon code: ZW85W

Click here to download it from Smashwords

Demon’s DanceBook Cover Demon

100% off! Get it for FREE!

Coupon code: JY77F

Click here to download it from Smashwords

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The Joys of Hidden Formatting

Nothing like having friends point out when you messed up. Isn’t it wonderful to get a message from a friend currently reading your book with a copied excerpt looking like this:

“So the illusion broke,llided itt lunged for her.ng the enormous, flaming creature. clearly again. when you attacked Nadesha?” She asked slowly.”

Excerpt From: Louring, Michelle. “Resounding Echo.” Michelle Louring. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

Of course the first reaction I had was to frantically look through all the different copies of the manuscript on my hard drive, hoping that the mutatilated sentence above was the result of Smashwords’ brutal Meatgrinder software. But alas, to my horror I located the same paragraph in the Kindle file I prepared by myself.

But strangely, it wasn’t to be found in my original Word document.

Word Formatting

That is, until I pressed the formatting symbol…

Formatting Error2

Isn’t it nice to know that your writing software is hiding terrible secrets from you? And even nicer that those secrets only get exposed when you decide to upload the document for the world to see!

…I really have no idea how this happened. But I do know that this error is probably in every single ebook version of Resounding Echo available at the moment.

I can only console myself with the fact that hidden formatting doesn’t show up in printed books!

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Smashwords’ Summer/Winter Promotion!

Time for a special little promotion!

I hope you guys are all enjoying the summer(or winter, if you’re living down south). Of course, it’s raining in Denmark! No scandinavian summer without flooded basements…

But to provide you with a little extra reading material when you’re lying outside, enjoying the sun, or hiding out from the cold inside, I have decided to participate in Smashwords’ Summer/Winter Promotion!

In July, you will be able to get Huntress and Resounding Echo for free and Silent Sound for 50% off!

What are you waiting for? Get a move on!

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Books in the Smashwords’ Promotion

Huntress Cover                    Resounding Echo Cover                     Silent Sound Cover Angel

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The Fight Against Smashwords’ Meatgrinder

Book Fight

Wohoo!

Finally I can say that Silent Sound is going to be available via retailers like Apple, Barnes and Nobles and Sony before long! Which means I won the dirty fight against the terrible monster Smashwords likes to call ‘the Meatgrinder’…

To those of you that don’t know, Smashwords is an ebook distributor, and in order for them to ship a book to their retail partners, it has to meet certain criteria. And that would be fine, if it wasn’t for one thing: The Meatgrinder.

The Meatgrinder is the automated process Smashwords puts your book through. They make you upload a Word document and the Meatgrinder cuts it into pieces and spits it out in all the different ebook formats. In theory, it should be a very time-saving process, but that’s not actually the case. Apparently, the conversion makes several mistakes appear, none of which could be found anywhere in the original document (I study IT, I know how to test for hidden errors, and I really couldn’t find them!).

The most prominent problem was the ePub. My Word document had the same paragraph formatting through the entire book. The ePub the Meatgrinder spit out did not. Every once in a while, a paragraph would have a different font size and I still can’t figure out how that happened…

But I won’t bore you with the details of this fight. All I will say is that I now have about 15 different versions of the Smashwords file of Silent Sound on my computer, and that’s almost how many new uploads it took for me to get it through their check.

The good news is that it now won’t be long before you can get an ebook copy of Silent Sound, even if you don’t shop at Amazon or directly at Smashwords!

To see all the places you can purchase Silent Sound, check out this post.