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Books and Word of Mouth

Jan 24, 2013

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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…

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…

Interview with The Usurper / Times of Trouble author Cliff Ball

Apr 1, 2012

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Cliff Ball

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Interview with The Usurper / Times of Trouble author Cliff Ball.

New Frontier, new novel coming in early 2012

Dec 15, 2011

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Cliff Ball

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

I’m currently working on the last couple of chapters of my new speculative fiction novel, which I call New Frontier. I’m expecting to be done sometime between the end of December to the end of January, barring unforseen circumstances of course. The story originally started off with a prologue with the whole speech given by…

Sales Experiment for October

Nov 1, 2011

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Cliff Ball

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For October, I decided to make two of my novels go free on Amazon(only in the US) just to see what would happen, by making them free on Smashwords, which made them free on Sony, Apple, Kobo, etc. I also had them distributed to B&N, but I don’t have any sale/download figures for anything yet…

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…

The Usurper on The Kindle Nation Daily

Jan 1, 2011

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Cliff Ball

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For the start of the 2011 New Year, my novel, The Usurper, is the sponsored novel on The Kindle Nation Daily. Kindle Nation Free Book Alert: Tom Clancy meets The Manchurian Candidate in Cliff Ball’s “The Usurper” (Today’s Sponsor) http://bit.ly/e6Gzkc If you don’t have a Kindle, The Usurper can be found on Nook, Apple, Sony…

Featured on Excuse Me, Miss blog

Nov 15, 2010

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Cliff Ball

in indie author, novels, writing

I am featured on the Excuse Me Miss website, and it has a scene from the novel, The Usurper. I have a bunch of scenes I could’ve used, but I went with this one: Scene: The one aircraft that everyone was searching for was still in the air, and flying over Pennsylvania. Some of the…

Mentioned on J.A. Konrath’s blog

Nov 4, 2010

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Cliff Ball

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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

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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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