by Charles O'Donnell | Jan 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
My posts will be less frequent for the rest of the month. I’m traveling in China. Every URL with ‘blog’ in it is blocked. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, all blocked. The New York Times published a story on Chinese corruption recently–you guessed...
by Charles O'Donnell | Jan 18, 2013 | Excerpts
Anson gestured as he spoke, with his wide, pale palms facing upward. “Jon, you think Matt’s this cool, calculating wonder boy, but he’s got another side to him. His family is first generation Italian, very traditional, very old school. If it was just his mama putting...
by Charles O'Donnell | Jan 15, 2013 | Guest Bloggers, Promotion
My books started out terrible – worse than terrible. Now I am the proud author of 22 books and yes, I make well above the yearly average you quoted [$3500–CO]. In fact, I make more than that a month… I offer a few tips that might help. Give yourself...
by Charles O'Donnell | Jan 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
If you don’t own this book, buy it: I learned about Jeff Herman’s book at a writers conference last year, from a pleasant, soft-spoken, gray-haired man who makes his living writing erotica. The book lists publishing houses by genre, their editors by...
by Charles O'Donnell | Jan 10, 2013 | Excerpts
Gina’s face in the moonlight stirs a childhood memory for Matt.
by Charles O'Donnell | Jan 8, 2013 | Promotion
I feel like Waldo. I’m wearing my striped shirt, my goofy stocking cap and my horned-rims and I’m still nearly invisible, even if you’re looking for me. Have you ever seen the movie A Face in the Crowd? Radio producer Marcia Jeffries (Patricia...
by Charles O'Donnell | Jan 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
I love my family. They love me. They account for 90% of my book sales–so far. And they’ve written some awesome reviews of The Girlfriend Experience. Their praise is so effusive it turns my head. Of course, I think it’s well deserved. Our side...
by Charles O'Donnell | Jan 4, 2013 | Promotion
The topic today is Search Engine Optimization–SEO. It’s best done organically. That means I need to get the book out in the Internet, in places people look. In my previous post you read about my pitiful attempts at creating an Internet presence, including...
by Charles O'Donnell | Jan 1, 2013 | Promotion
The guy who said build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door probably didn’t account for two million other people making mousetraps. Some of them really good traps. My first attempt at promotion was the “like swap.” And the...
by Charles O'Donnell | Dec 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
Which came first, the hooker or the spy? There are a lot of elements in The Girlfriend Experience, some peripheral and some central to the plot. The response from readers suggests that the technology dominates the story. That’s a little disappointing to me since...
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