On Thursday (July 28), all day long, come to Romance University to learn how to boost revenue for your writing business. I’ll be there giving free advice on ways writers can develop and use a business mindset.

If you’ve never visited Romance University, I recommend you stop by (link below) any time. This is a robust site filled with writing craft, business advice and just fun writer’s life discussions. The amazing thing is that the ladies who run this site don’t charge anything for it. It’s easy to take free for granted on the Internet. But if you look around free and quality aren’t that easy to find nowadays even on the Internet.

To thank and celebrate everyone who joins me at Romance University (plus my blog readers) I’ve timed my summer sale to correspond with my appearance on RU. My new book, “Small Business Rocket Fuel: Marketing Tools to Boost Revenue”, is now $6.99 discounted from the regular price of $8.99. That’s a discount of 33%! The book is available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble under the e-books, business books section (links below).

Although Amazon and Barnes and Noble don’t have a mechanism that allows me to show the sale end date (or the regular price), I’m letting you all in on the secret that the sale will end when real summer does- that is when school starts, the sale ends. On September 1, the price will rise again to the regular price of $8.99.

Happy Summer!

http://www.amazon.com/Small-Business-Rocket-Fuel-ebook/dp/B005AXY472/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1310220277&sr=1-1

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/small-business-rocket-fuel-candice-hughes/1104197103?ean=2940012843357&itm=1&usri=candice%2bhughes

http://romanceuniversity.org

A number of people have asked me recently how they can read e-books if they don’t own a Kindle, Nook, or other e-reader. Amazon has free downloadable software that allows you to read Kindle e-books from your PC, smartphone or iPad.

Here is the link:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sa_menu_karl3/187-1215568-9405767?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771

Here is a link for reading Barnes and Noble Nook e-books on your PC, smart phones and iPad:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/free-nook-apps/379002321/

Here is a link for how one mom turned used $10 Palm devices into an e-reader:

http://www.momsgadgets.com/how-to-read-bn-free-ebooks-without-the-nook/1064

I absolutely love paper books and still read many of my books on paper. But, the volume of e-books sold is growing rapidly as they are somewhat less costly (you save a couple dollars per book in production costs) and can store and transport them easily. (Just don’t spill anything on your electronic device or drop it. This is where paper has the advantage of being less delicate.)