books Archives - Cliff Ball Books

New Novel & New Audiobooks

Oct 1, 2025

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in alternate history, audiobooks, books, christian author, christian fiction, ebooks, indie author, Metafiction, novels, Parody, science fiction, self publishing, The Library Saga, time travel, writing

This will be the first blog post I’ve done in almost three years! Back in 2016 and 2017, I was burned out from writing eleven novels in four years, so I got stuck on two that I had planned on writing after I had finished with The End Times Saga and Perilous Times series. I…

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…

My #Marketing Ideas

Oct 20, 2011

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Cliff Ball

in indie author, self publishing, writing

I have been an independently published author now for nearly four years, and not until 2010 did I really do any kind of promoting/marketing for my novels, mostly because I had no idea where to start. Since about late 2009, there have been all sorts of assorted experts in the field all over the internet…

New book review of The Usurper

Aug 20, 2011

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Cliff Ball

in book reviews, books, indie author, writing

This is a new review of The Usurper that was done on Manic Readers: MR Review Rating: Reviewer: Amanda Review: The usurper, Gary Jackson, is a hateful soul. His entire life was planned by the Soviet Union before he was even conceived by a volunteer KGB agent. Gary was raised to hate the USA and…

Where all my novels are located

Feb 14, 2011

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Cliff Ball

in book reviews, books, writing

Dear reader, if you’d like to know where you can buy my novels, here is a comprehensive list: Out of Time, originally published through iUniverse in 2008 in paperback, now through Createspace, and a 2nd edition uploaded as e-book this year. With coupon code ZC6JYHVF get this title for 50% off from Createspace. Paperback: Createspace…

January’s sales numbers

Feb 4, 2011

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Cliff Ball

in self publishing

Here are my sales numbers for the month of January. Thanks to being on Kindle Nation Daily at the beginning of January, I surpassed my goals for the month. I sold 197 copies altogether of my three novels, and I was only expecting to sell maybe 100. Here are the stats from Amazon and B&N:…

Reader reviews for The Usurper

Dec 14, 2010

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Cliff Ball

in books

Currently, the Usurper has 6 reviews, 5 of which are 4 star on Amazon. Brian says: Cliff weaves an interesting story with enough connections to real happenings in the world today that this book seems to be non-fiction. Just when you think you know where the story line is going Cliff changes up on you.…

Mentioned on J.A. Konrath’s blog

Nov 4, 2010

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Cliff Ball

in books, indie author, novels, self publishing

My novel, The Usurper, was mentioned, along with quite a few other Indie authors, on mega Indie author J.A. Konrath’s blog, here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/11/with-little-help.html Check out all the novels listed. All these authors would like to have more people read their novels, including myself. I am very appreciative of the fact that Indie authors generally help…

Interview on Kip Poe’s Blog

Oct 31, 2010

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Cliff Ball

in writing

Interview with Kip Poe’s Blog 1: What is the most productive time of the day for you to write? I would have to say that my most productive time of day to write is between 10 am and 3 pm. I don’t know why that is, but, it seems like that is when I’m at…

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