Category: Features

What Are You Reading? DFRAT Edition: Week 2 (112)

What Are You Reading? DFRAT Edition: Week 2 (112)

Holly: This week hasn’t been much better for me reading-wise. I started several books, but had a hard time focusing long enough to finish any of them. I finally fell into a story and 1/4 of the way through it started dragging. Tucker’s Crossing by Marina Adair. Very slow going. I might set it aside […]

What Are You Reading? DFRAT Edition: Week 2

What Are You Reading? DFRAT Edition: Week 2

Holly: This week hasn’t been much better for me reading-wise. I started several books, but had a hard time focusing long enough to finish any of them. I finally fell into a story and 1/4 of the way through it started dragging. Tucker’s Crossing by Marina Adair. Very slow going. I might set it aside […]

#DFRAT Guest Author (+ a Giveaway): Natalie J. Damschroder

#DFRAT Guest Author (+ a Giveaway): Natalie J. Damschroder

I’ve been published in “digital first” for my entire writing career, though it didn’t start being called that until recently. E-publishing began in the mid 1990s, as technology and an ever-smaller, more reachable world enabled just about anyone to become a publisher. I sold my first book to Avid Press in 1999, and when it […]

#DFRAT Guest Author (+ a Giveaway): Zaide Bishop

#DFRAT Guest Author (+ a Giveaway): Zaide Bishop

When people ask me if my books will be available in print, and I say no, they often offer condolences. Despite the success of e-readers and the proliferation of incredibly successful e-books, it’s still viewed as a publishing consolation prize. Personally, I don’t want my books available in p-book form. Traditional, physical books are appropriate […]

#DFRAT Guest Author (+ a Giveaway): Alanna Coca

#DFRAT Guest Author (+ a Giveaway): Alanna Coca

Digital Publishing. Ten years ago, I’d have to write a few pages to explain what that term means. Today just about everyone knows what Kindle and Nook are, and what a handful of digital first publishers have done to revolutionize publishing as we know it. Digital publishing is still in its infancy today, though some […]