There's another Free Par-Tay starting May 7. Yay! More free books! The theme is "Spring Fling: Out with the old, in with the new" Which means Enchantment and Taken won't be featured this time around, but there's plenty of other bestsellers you won't want to miss.
I'd like to introduce Shaunda Kennedy
Wenger, author of The Ghost In Me. This is my first time to host a guest post, I hope you enjoy it.
The Internet: Uniting
Readers with Today’s Indie Authors by Shaunda Kennedy Wenger
Gone are the days when editors held the
golden keys to The Magical Land of Story. Gone are the days when
their own tastes denied the reader of a heart-pounding, page-turning
book (Harry Potter was rejected several times before it finally was
given a chance). (Say, what?) Or a publisher’s inclination to stay
within their comfort zone bypasses a step-out-of-the-box title from
an emerging author for another tried-and-true book in the Magic Tree
House or Goosebumps series, for example (how many are there?). The
internet and ebook publishing are bridging the gap between Indie
Authors with good stories to tell and Pioneering Readers with a
passion for tales.
Of course, this new relationship isn’t
a random mistake that has spun out of technology. Seasoned Indie
Authors, who take pride in their craft and work diligently to bring
the best stories to hopeful readers, are winning more and more
readers away from the Gate Keepers every day, simply
by offering wonderful stories at a reasonable price.
Which is great, because reasonable prices make everyone sleep a whole
lot better, which puts everyone in a great mood, which leads to
random acts of kindness, which… well, you get my point. Indie
Authors make the world go round. Not only that, they unite it.
Today, the relationship
between reader and author is more transparent, more direct, than ever
before. Walls made of agents, publicists, book buyers, and
distributors don’t exist between the Pioneering Reader and Indie
Author. Writing, itself, no longer seems to be an elusive,
mysterious, solitary art. All that exists in this
technologically-driven relationship is an author offering his book
and a reader willing to take a peek at what lies beneath the cover.
Today’s Indie Author works harder
than ever to connect with readers, because Indie
Authors know that readers are the final part of the equation when it
comes to creating stories. Without readers, what meaning
would any stories hold? Readers make any story complete. Readers are
the final, can’t-be-ignored seasoning in the perfect bowl of stew.
If writers make the world go round, readers are the
axis around which it spins.
And you know what? A
happy, spinning world allows parties to happen!!!!
Spring
Fling takes flight this week when a select group of more than 30
Indie Authors offer their ebooks for FREE from May 7-9! Many
of these authors have already won awards and have made it on the
bestseller lists, and they are stepping out in this event with new
titles!
At these “prices” you won’t be
disappointed. With the wide range of styles and genres to choose
from, I’m willing to bet you’ll find a new favorite Indie Author
to wave and rave about, not because of a commercial, or a tie-in to a
movie at the cinema, or because it seems like a safe bet, but because
you set out like a pioneer and discovered him yourself.
Go to www.freepartay.com
and Join the ParTay!!
Guest post by Shaunda Kennedy Wenger
