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Welcome to Indie Novels!
While in the process of writing and promoting my self-published novel, The Unmapped Lands, I noticed that there aren’t a lot of sites dedicated to the promotion of self-published authors and independent publishers, especially on Tumblr.
Thus, Indie Novels was born. I’ll reblog and link to information about self-published novels, small publishing houses, and any other articles and resources I think will be of interest to fans and creators of indie fiction.
This is NOT a review blog. While I’d love to be able to review every novel that comes my way, I simply don’t have the time. Feel free to submit info about your book, however! Let’s help each other out and make sure our work finds its audience.
I made a new thing! Check it out if you’re interested in supporting the work of independent authors.
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Our friends at Random House Children’s Books have generously agreed to donate one brand-new book for each new follower we gain on Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter this week. Those books will go to thousands of schools and programs serving kids from low-income families across the country.
Please Re-blog!
To learn more about First Book, please visit: www.firstbook.org
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![A Sense of Place, Week 5: Reading is Fundamental
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I used to fantasize about being the last person left in the world and I had all the time I wanted to read every book ever written. Then I saw that Twilight Zone episode and I started keeping an extra pair of glasses around. Just in case.
Put me in a comfortable chair with a blanket, a cup of tea and a book and I am in my element. That’s where I belong. I wish I could spend my days doing just that, maybe in a sunlit room where it always feels warm and some soft music in the background.
I’m not particular about what I read. I’ll read most anything with the exception of romance novels, be they Harlequin or historical romance. I pretty much hate flowery prose, and I especially hate writers who write things like “a fire in his loins” or “he unsheathed his long sword and impaled me.”
I have a particular love for magic and horror. Also, a love for extraordinary people doing ordinary things or ordinary people doing extraordinary things or short stories or long novels or epic battles with death and destruction or poetic justice or tales of mundane lives told with very un-mundane words or children’s books or books about Teddy Roosevelt or books where there are happily ever after endings and books where everyone dies.
Basically, I’ll read almost anything. In a book, on a Kindle. On the couch or on a plane. At work or at home, day or night, in a car, in a bar, I will read them near or far, I will read them, Sam I am.
[i may have had a lot of caffeine today]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx4be6JbG41qzwnozo1_500.jpg)
A Sense of Place, Week 5: Reading is Fundamental
I used to fantasize about being the last person left in the world and I had all the time I wanted to read every book ever written. Then I saw that Twilight Zone episode and I started keeping an extra pair of glasses around. Just in case.
Put me in a comfortable chair with a blanket, a cup of tea and a book and I am in my element. That’s where I belong. I wish I could spend my days doing just that, maybe in a sunlit room where it always feels warm and some soft music in the background.
I’m not particular about what I read. I’ll read most anything with the exception of romance novels, be they Harlequin or historical romance. I pretty much hate flowery prose, and I especially hate writers who write things like “a fire in his loins” or “he unsheathed his long sword and impaled me.”
I have a particular love for magic and horror. Also, a love for extraordinary people doing ordinary things or ordinary people doing extraordinary things or short stories or long novels or epic battles with death and destruction or poetic justice or tales of mundane lives told with very un-mundane words or children’s books or books about Teddy Roosevelt or books where there are happily ever after endings and books where everyone dies.
Basically, I’ll read almost anything. In a book, on a Kindle. On the couch or on a plane. At work or at home, day or night, in a car, in a bar, I will read them near or far, I will read them, Sam I am.
[i may have had a lot of caffeine today]
