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Mobi and EPUB Formats Added To Pleasure House Collection!

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I finally broke down and took the time to create MOBI and EPUB formats for all my Pleasure House stories. Some of you may not be staunch Amazon or Nook supporters, so OmniLit buyers are in luck! I at least put Mistress Of The House in my Nook Library and in my Kindle library, and it seems everything looks good.

In the future, I want to run contests and giveaways, and being able to present my stories in these different formats will make the prize nicer for the winners. If you want to take advantage of my newsletters, where these announcements will be made, then sign up and be part of the gang! I’ve just added a new newsletter sign-up sheet under “Updates & Fun Stuff.”

If you’ve read Pleasure House and Dance of Desire, don’t forget to check out Mistress Of The House and Master Of The House, where these stories expand on characters mentioned in Pleasure House.

If you have anything you want to share, feel free to comment here, email me, or check out my Facebook page at Scarlet Darkwood Author. I always look forward to hearing from you.

Scarlet Darkwood Author Has Created A Facebook Page!

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As creatures of convenience, we’ll use the tool that’s easiest and . . . well . . . convenient! Facebook is one of those things people usually have a love/hate relationship with, and I’m not that different. But we must admit, that there’s still something alluring about the site. If you’re not careful, it can erode your time, but if used wisely, can be a nice place to network. On the right hand side of the home page of this blog, there is the Facebook badge with Scarlet Darkwood Author. This will be a great way to chat and keep up with each other. So click it and “Like” the page, and be a part of what I want to be a fun-loving, interesting, exciting (okay, I could go on forever!) group.

I created this special page as a place where we can all come together CONVENIENTLY, and chat about different things. No subject matter is off-limits, and as long as there is no abuse, I’m pretty open. You can respond to my posts, or post something of your own. If I’ve set up everything correctly, all posts will show to the left hand side of the page, and if someone presents a really juicy tidbit, I’ll give it a shout-out by sharing it with everyone with its own special post.

My goal is to post regularly, presenting thoughts and topics of interest. I personally think it will be just as fun and interesting if you do too. And as an author/writer, I’ll definitely answer back–though not individually to everyone on every post or reply. But I’m sharing this with you first, and if you know others who would like the page, refer it to them too.

PS: Happy Spring–it finally arrived. Since this is the birth of a new season, so is the birth of my new page.

Hot Rant From Authors: We Are Not Our Characters!

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Hello All! I couldn’t help but be inspired to address an issue stemming from a post on Anne Rice’s Facebook page. And this is it: A reader giving an author a one-star review because the reader determined from the author’s past written content, that the author is somehow unworthy of writing on a new, entirely different subject matter. (I’ve included the snippet and link at the very bottom of this posting).

Let’s face it ladies and gentlemen, AUTHORS ARE NOT THEIR CHARACTERS!

Now many of you will say or think that surely an author’s works or genre reflects them. There could be an element of truth to that, perhaps. But there are so many pieces of the puzzle making up one’s personality, belief system, and interests, that it should hardly come as a surprise when an author decides to make a change and write something totally different than what they’ve been known for writing previously.

Writing a different piece of work in a new genre helps keep things spicy for a writer. Some do well with the change, others not so much. But I have to personally admire an author for branching out. It lets me know there’s more to them than just what I read in their novels–that they’re unique human beings with all kinds of perspectives on all kinds of subjects.

This is my personal stance: Readers need to be thoughtful in their reviews, even if they’re negative, and discuss the work and other nuances of the book: not the author or their worthiness in tackling a new area of interest.

I’d be interested in learning how some of you feel about this. Do you think erotica writers are sexaholics or do you think practicing detectives can write nothing but murder mysteries? Could they write a good steampunk novel, maybe? 

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Good Morning, People of the Page. Here’s a recent “review” of Christ the Lord Out of Egypt. Comments welcome. (If anyone thinks an author has no “right” to feature a “review” like this on a FB page, let me observe that reviews like this are read by thousands on Amazon.com, and they remain part of the public review record indefinitely. They’re posted to be read, and to influence, year after year after year, and their effects can be considerable.)

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