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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…

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…

Sales for 2011

Jan 22, 2012

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Cliff Ball

in indie author, novels, self publishing, writing

Now that I’m pretty sure I have all the sales numbers in for all platforms, I’d like to share how many novels I sold or had downloaded last year as an independent author, to give encouragement to those that aren’t sure they can do it. I’ve been doing this for about 4 years, 1 1/2…

Stats for The Usurper in November

Dec 3, 2011

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Cliff Ball

in writing

I decided to let The Usurper go free in November (and it’s still free, no thanks to Kobo not changing the price) with the understanding that I was going to get blasted by the perpetual Negative Nellies on Amazon (or elsewhere), but I thought it would be a good way to get my novel in…

My sales for year so far

Sep 21, 2011

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Cliff Ball

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

When I started self-publishing in 2008, I didn’t really have any kind of goals on how big of a number I wanted to reach. When I hit 100 sold by the end of 2009 without any promoting except for Facebook, I thought that was cool. When I managed to get a little over 500 sold…

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…

#SampleSunday-Shattered Earth excerpt

Feb 26, 2011

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Cliff Ball

in indie author, novels, science fiction, writing

For Sample Sunday, this is an excerpt from Shattered Earth, one of my science fiction novels. Once you read the excerpt, buy links are at the end, or click on the picture to take you to Smashwords for all e-book formats. Chapter Five Around this period, two very rich Terran adventurers had decided to hitch…

DailyCheapReads.com » The Usurper – Political Thriller

Feb 15, 2011

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Cliff Ball

in indie author

DailyCheapReads.com » The Usurper – Political Thriller.

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