But Do You *Like* Like A Facebook Page?
Posted on Mar 20, 2013 in Blog, Social Networking | 8 comments
Last time Facebook did an overhaul (a few months back?), I noticed for the first time a set of links on my left hand bar under the heading “Pages”. The first was a link to my own Page, with a notification number showing any new activity. Very handy. Second was something called a “Pages feed” that showed updates from all the Pages I’d Liked. Then finally came the...
Read MoreOpting Out – Spam DMs on Twitter
Posted on Mar 8, 2013 in Blog, Web Tools | 5 comments
You’ve heard me complain about promospam before. Readers (including authors) are inundated with constant messages saying “buy my book buy my book buy my book” on social networking. I regularly get private messages asking for my “support” (aka buying their book) from authors, very often from people I’ve never heard of, and it’s exhausting. I read that over...
Read MoreHow to Create 3-D Book Images
Posted on Dec 29, 2012 in Blog, Cover Art, Technology | 2 comments
Ever since I updated the images and theme of the blog, I’ve been getting a lot of comments on the 3D book covers on the home page. If you have Photoshop (not Elements), they’re quick and easy to make. I wish I could say I slaved over them, that they are evidence of my technical genius or artistic abilities, but the truth is, I use a super bit of software I found on the web. I bought a...
Read MoreEmbedding Kindle Books
Posted on Dec 27, 2012 in Blog, Web Tools | 6 comments
Did you know you can embed a sample of any Kindle book into your website? Readers won’t even have to go to the trouble of downloading Kindle for PC (or any other brand emulator) or leave the website. I’d always liked the idea of samples of my books on my website and had done so with some of my novels. But getting it to look nice and readable (instead of like a big blob of text),...
Read MoreTutorial: Ebook Formatting
Posted on Dec 23, 2012 in Blog, Publishing, Technology | 0 comments
Last week I did a video on formatting your manuscript for CreateSpace, so this week I decided to follow-up by creating a similar walkthrough illustrating how to create .mobi (Kindle) and .epub files. Soon (according to Mark Coker, within weeks) we will be able to upload epub files to Smashwords rather than using the meatgrinder. I’m pretty excited about this, because I’m planning to...
Read MoreKeeping My Story Straight
Posted on May 22, 2012 in Blog, My Writing, Web Tools | 8 comments
When I first wrote BLOOD FAERIE, I had the luxury of making things up as I went along. Nobody could say I had any “facts” wrong, because, hey, I created the world. But when it came time to pen AZURI FAE, well, I had to make an effort to be consistent. Did Eilidh have silver eyes or grey eyes or green eyes with some silver? Was Munro left-handed? How old was he when his father...
Read MoreMeet India Drummond
I'm a lot of other things, but mostly I'm a writer. I like books with fast action, scary killers, fantasy worlds, and a dash of romance. Maybe even all four at once. To see what types of books I write, click "Fantasy Series" in the nav bar. -- To get in touch with me, click Contact India and send me an email. 
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