Smashwords – Richard Levesque

Free Short Story–Walk a Mile

My short story, “Walk a Mile,” is now available as a free download on Smashwords. It’s also available for 99 cents at Amazon, but I expect that price will drop to free as well once Amazon gets its bots to work figuring out that a competitor has the story at a cheaper price. Like some…
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richardlevesqueauthor October 3, 2013 0

To Free or Not to Free?

So you’re finished writing your book. It’s revised and edited and ready to go. You’ve formatted it for Kindle, but you have a choice to make. To enroll or not to enroll–that’s one more question you have to ask yourself. When I first launched Take Back Tomorrow a little more than a year ago, I…
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richardlevesqueauthor February 11, 2013 2

The Indie Revolution–Who Benefits?

Here’s something that seems to be an accepted truth about and among indie writers: The e-book and indie publishing movements are good for writers, providing countless authors the opportunity to get their material “out there” when it would have been rejected out of hand by traditional publishers and agents. Two underlying arguments: 1. The publishing…
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richardlevesqueauthor January 25, 2013 2