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Works in Progress….

Feb 10, 2013

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As I’m currently working on the prequel to Times of Trouble, which is taking me a whole lot longer to write than anticipated because of having to replace a computer part, causing me to re-install Windows 7, with everything else on my computer, then not having an updated version of Word, since it was at…

Books and Word of Mouth

Jan 24, 2013

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Cliff Ball

in book reviews, books, novels, Promotion, writing

You find a book, let’s say you randomly pick it up at the library while browsing the shelves for something new to read, or you do it at the bookstore, and its from a author that you never heard of, and more than likely, most people hadn’t heard of either, but the book’s description makes…

Novel sales stats for 2012

Jan 1, 2013

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Cliff Ball

in books, christian author, christian fiction, indie author, novels, Promotion, science fiction, writing

First off, Happy New Year 2013 to everyone and a big thank you to all those out there who bought/downloaded a copy of one of my novels. I thought I’d blog again this year about how many sales/free downloads my novels had this year. My marketing/promoting consisted mostly of using Twitter, Facebook groups/pages, joining up…

#SampleSunday – Final Frontier, alternate history

Nov 11, 2012

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Cliff Ball

in indie author, novels, science fiction, writing

For Sample Sunday, here is a part of Chapter 7 of Final Frontier. A couple of hours went by before anything started happening. As McMurphy and Elders were hiding behind some boxes on the floor where Lee Harvey Oswald was supposed to have shot Kennedy from, both men heard a door open, with two men…

Character Timeline for my End Times novels

Nov 10, 2012

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Cliff Ball

in christian fiction, novels, writing

Since I’m about to start working on a prequel to Times of Trouble and Times of Trial, I decided I should probably work on a timeline for the characters, since I also had to figure out how to keep the timeline straight in Times of Trial after writing Times of Trouble. This is a rough…

Potential novels, sequels, & other scribblings

Oct 14, 2012

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Cliff Ball

in christian fiction, indie author, novels, Promotion, science fiction, writing

When I started writing and publishing my works, I never thought I would publish more than maybe two novels. Well, now I’m up to eight novels, and setting to write my ninth. My goal this year was to write and publish at least two novels, and I did that, with three. I also thought I’d…

New Release: Final Frontier

Oct 10, 2012

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Cliff Ball

in aliens, indie author, novels, science fiction

Final Frontier is the sequel to the novel I published last year, New Frontier. Currently available for $2.99 on Kindle(ASIN: B009ORP5U0), Smashwords, Nook, and Kobo. Also, Times of Trouble is currently going for $.99 on Kindle (ASIN:B0075CNFFI) (but is available in paperback and on other e-book platforms), and Out of Time, my time travel novel is…

#SampleSunday – Times of Trial: an End Times novel

Jun 10, 2012

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Cliff Ball

in books, christian fiction, novels, Promotion, writing

Here is a sample from the first part of Chapter 4 of “Times of Trial.” Available at: Amazon US, Amazon UK, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, Apple iTunes, Kobo Chapter 4 A day earlier…. “I’m starting to fear for our safety, Eric. Some of our neighbors keep calling CPS and the cops on us for homeschooling…

Sales for the year so far

Jun 1, 2012

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Cliff Ball

in books, christian fiction, indie author, novels, Promotion, science fiction, self publishing, writing

Now that it’s June, here are my sales numbers for the year so far, from regular sales to when one of my novels was in KDP Select to free giveaways. These are all from mostly just promoting online on Twitter, Facebook, and a bunch of message boards. The novels are listed in order of publication,…

Two new reviews

May 24, 2012

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Cliff Ball

in book reviews, books, indie author, novels, Promotion, writing

In the last week, I’ve received two new reviews for two different novels, both of which are 5 stars. The first one is for Out of Time, which is my very first novel that I published in 2008 as a total newbie, where I mistakenly used iUniverse as a publisher and spent way too much…

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