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Jan 8, 2014
2 min

Distribution Updates – Kindle MatchBook, iTunes & More!

Hey Stitch Fans! Just wanted to let you know about a few quick updates made to Stitch & Shudder’s distribution. Lots of details below, but here’s the short version: don’t worry if you don’t see Stitch or Shudder available for sale where they should be for a couple days. And if you bought Stitch or Shudder from Amazon in print, you can now grab a Kindle copy at a reduced price! Okay, and here’s the long version: First, it recently came to my attention that Shudder had not be

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Jun 12, 2013
2 min

Announcement: Stitch is $0.99 & Coming Back to Nook! Also, Giveaway WINNERS!

As promised, to thank you properly (or at least a few of you!), I’ve drawn the winners of the Stitch free days giveaway – see screenshot at right. If you’re one of these people, you should have received an email from me this morning with details about how to claim your prize. Congrats!! I also have a few other announcements that I’m very excited about. As of this very moment, Stitch is now only $0.99 on Kindle! So if you know anyone who missed the free days, please let th

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Jun 11, 2013
1 min

LAST CHANCE to Grab Stitch for Free!

Also remember to enter the giveaway so I can thank you for all your help in sharing the news! Enter the Giveaway HERE!!! And in case you or someone you know does happen to miss the free days, I’ve got some good news: I’ll be dropping the price of Stitch to $0.99 this week (so *almost* free!). AND since my exclusivity agreement with Amazon is over, Stitch will also become available again on Nook, iTunes, Kobo, Smashwords, and likely any other e-book retailer you can think of

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Jun 9, 2013
2 min

Added Prizes to Stitch Free Days Giveaway! (THANK YOU!)

I missed the screenshot at #13, whoops! I am so incredibly blown away by the success of the Stitch free days – and so grateful for all the help that so, so many of you have given me in spreading the word – that I decided to add a few more prizes to the giveaway so I can thank more of you for everything you’ve done for Stitch! This morning, Stitch peaked at #13 on Amazon’s Top 100 Free Books, and though it has since dropped to #24 overall (which is still amazing), it remains i

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Jun 8, 2013
1 min

Stitch Reaches #19 on Amazon’s Top 100 Free!

WOW. Wow wow wow. Thank you so, so much to everyone who’s grabbed a free copy of Stitch in the past 24 hours. Apparently it’s been a lot of you, b/c somehow Stitch has made its way into the Top 20 Free books on Amazon!! Look – here it is at #19! Only in my wildest dreams did I dare hope that Stitch might make it into the Top 100, let alone the Top 20, so this is really an amazing surprise! I feel SO grateful that so many people (just about 7600 at this point according to

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Jun 7, 2013
1 min

Big News – Stitch is FREE Today!

Wha-wha-whaaaaat?? You heard me! It’s free!! For reals! From June 7th-11th, anyone can mosey on over to the Stitch Amazon page and pick up a brand-spankin’-new copy of Stitch for $0 – that’s zero, zip, zilch, nada. I know most of you reading this have probably already read and enjoyed Stitch (otherwise why are you following my blog, right?), BUT I’m sure you know at least one or two – or perhaps a hundred? – people who HAVEN’T yet read Stitch and who might also enjoy it…

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Apr 23, 2013
5 min

Clarifying the Cryptic Amazon Email

If you own a Kindle version of Stitch, you may have received an email from Amazon in the wee hours of the morning that went something a little like this: An updated version of your past Kindle purchase of Stitch (Stitch Trilogy, Book 1) by Samantha Durante is now available. The updated version contains the following changes: – Typos have been corrected. – Significant editorial changes have been made. Since that email is entirely cryptic and makes the changes I made so

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Dec 17, 2012
1 min

Announcement: Stitch available to borrow FREE from Kindle Owners’ Lending Library

I’m very excited to announce that Stitch is now available in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library! What does this mean? In short, if you’re an Amazon Prime member (and come on, who doesn’t want free 2-day shipping on everything?), you can borrow Stitch for FREE! More info about the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library available on Amazon.com here. Happy reading! #free #kdpselect #kindle #stitch

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Nov 7, 2012
1 min

New Prize Added to the Big Giveaway: Authorgraphs!

25 new prizes added to the HUGE November Giveaway today – Authorgraphs! If you haven’t heard of Authorgraph before, it’s a really neat mechanism for an author to “sign” an e-book. Here, take a look at this one I sent myself: There are 25 of these babies up for grabs in the HUGE November giveaway – enter below for your chance to win! Enter the Giveaway HERE!!! #authorgraph #giveaway #kindle #marketing

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Oct 17, 2012
1 min

Announcing New Pages on SamanthaDurante.com – More Stitch Content & Writer Resources

Just wanted to take a minute to announce a couple new pages on the site: First, we’ve got a new More Stitch Content page with links to all the great spinoff stories, character interviews, and other Stitch trivia available online! Much of this content is originally from guest posts on the blog tour, so if you’ve been keeping up with the tour there might not be too much new, but if you’ve missed any of the stops, you might find something fun! And, of course, I’ll be keeping t

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Aug 1, 2012
1 min

Stitch – Now Available at an Online Retailer Near You!

It’s official: Stitch has launched! Readers can now buy it at the following locations: Amazon – Print & Kindle editions Smashwords – Multiple eBook versions iTunes and Barnes & Noble – eBook versions coming soon! I’m SO excited to finally get the book out to readers! Huge thanks to my friends and family for helping me spread the word (they’re literally flooding Facebook, it’s amazing, thank you!!!). Shameless Plea: If you read the book, would you please post a review on Am

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Jul 26, 2012
11 min

Book Formatting Woes: I figured out the hard stuff so you don’t have to! (Part 2)

Update: This post was written back in 2012, and thankfully things have gotten A LOT easier since then!! (You NO LONGER need a software degree to do this! Kindle finally has a proper formatting tool with actual UX!) But I'm leaving these posts up just in case there's anything that's still helpful in here. Continuing Part 1 of this post from earlier this week, which covered CreateSpace print formatting tips, I’m just going to dive right in to the Kindle and Smashwords tips… EBO

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