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Okay, my beloved minions: I have been silent for a long time, but I have found something that needs to be shared.

Behold, Booktrack!

I hear you asking: What is that?

I glad you ask. I’m positively giddy with excitement and can’t wait to enlighten you guys:

Simply put, @Booktrack is the best way to make reading the most absolute experience ever.
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Yeah, as if it weren’t easy enough to get lost in books already, right?

I admit, when I got an e-mail from the guys over at Booktrack inviting...

One of the most popular questions I get asked is: “How long did it take you to write…?”

Honestly, that’s a question I ask myself too. I need to know how much time I invest and how much I earn for each hour invested for all my other jobs (translator and editor, in case you’re wondering) and this summer I decided I would begin to keep track of my writing time. Now I’ve decided to share some results with you.

These numbers apply to a short story (5,500 words; usually, a full novel is around 70,000...

Have I fallen off the face of the Earth? Nope!

In fact, I haven’t been silent quite as long as it seems, either. I wrote a number of posts for other blogs; I’ll compile them all and give you the links soon. Meanwhile, there’s something of an update I wanted to share:

Sometimes, the story you want to tell is not the story that IS.

My current work-in-progress was born as a conceptual novel. I wanted to explore the paradigms of good and evil, heroes and villains. Do you know how long that concept l...

There’s a scene in The Wild Hunt where our main character, Lily, gets lost and wanders a faerie path. Her adventure is based on personal experience!

Once, I made a school trip to a historical city that’s built on top of a hill, for strategic reasons (city’s Toledo, if you’re curious). After a short organized visit, our teachers let us loose and a friend and I tried to find our way to various interesting spots. We only ever managed to get to the Jewish quarter, though. From then on, any street...

“There,” he said. “Do you see?”

Lily followed the line of his finger and squinted. There, between the leaves dappled in shadows, stood a dash of color.

“Is that—?” she tilted her head. The vision angle was very poor and she tried to take a step closer to the window, to see. Troy’s arm locked around her waist like an iron band, though, keeping her back. “It can’t possibly be David the gnome, right?”

The Wild Hunt

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Title: Fall from Grace

Author: Ron C. Nieto

Genre: Urban Fantasy / Paranormal

Audience: New Adult / Adult

Formats: E-book

Publisher: Ron C. Nieto

Cover By: Kris Wagner

Editor: EFC Services

Pages: 310

Expected Date of Publishing: Fall 2014

People believe the world will go out with a bang. People expect it to be crushed under ever-rising waves, to burn in an inferno of all-encompassing flame, to be torn asunder by the same forces that created it.

No one ever thought it would be as gentle as a...

You’ve probably seen the cover swimming around the blogosphere after the amazing reveal Xpresso Book Tours put together (thanks everyone for participating! You’re awesome). I’m really excited about this project and can’t wait for you to read it! For now, let me show you the cover for The Wild Hunt, a mature YA paranormal novel that spins a dark faerie tale…

Magic still lingers in the mist-covered corners of the world, wherever the Old Ways are remembered. However, as civilization and reason sc...

Lots of people have asked how we writers get our ideas for new stories, so I thought I would share the process Fall from Grace followed, from inception to planning to novel.

The first secret: I wasn’t meant to write Fall from Grace.

I think I was reading a post about alternating point of view. Or perhaps it was a review about a plot twist that took the reviewer by surprise (the good kind). Or maybe it’s just that those two things happened, and they happened close enough to get lumped in the sam...

A while back I did a post on marketing explaining my own adventures. What I discussed there worked best for long term, and I plan to eventually write a companion with more data as I collect it (read: when I launch my next series and can compare actions and reactions), but sometimes you want a boost. You want sales that will increase your discoverability.

Enter book advertising.

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If you want to get the most out of your ads, you want to take three things into account:

Always, always promote t...