DtD is a Bestseller!
Provided you take a loose enough definition of the word, that is. I went to Kobo to get links to my books for the library page , and imagine my surprise when I discovered that Derrick the Dog was the #3 bestseller in Kids & Teens , Fiction , Chapter Books , Intermediate . I immediately clicked through to see if, in fact, there were only three books in that category, but it turns out there are more… quite a few, in fact. DtD was beating out some heavy hitters, like the Muppets, Cam Jansen, and Judy Moody. Now that I actually see tha…
Goodreads Giveaway Results: Derrick the Dog
Wow! The giveaway is over, and the response was way more than I ever expected. Thanks to everybody who entered. The winner is Sharlene M. of AB, Canada. Congratulations, Sharlene! For the numbers fiends/curious authors, here are the stats for my first ever Goodreads giveaway . These are all for Derrick the Dog , the subject of this giveaway. I didn’t pay for any supplemental advertising, just posted about it on social media and my site. Before: on 6 shelves, 1 rating, 2 reviews After: on 419 shelves, 2 ratings, 2 reviews I …
In Remembrance: Brooke Overstreet Hack
The nice thing about being independently published and my own boss is that I can write about damn near anything I want. Today, I want to write about my friend Brooke. I met Brooke in Junior High, in Band if I recall correctly, and we were close friends throughout most of Junior High and High School. She was one of my all-time best friends, in fact. She bought me Def Leppard's Pyromania for my birthday one year, knowing how much I liked their Hysteria album. We exchanged homemade Christmas cards most every year. We spent …
Goodreads Giveaway: Derrick the Dog
Just in time for Christmas, I’m giving away an autographed copy of Derrick the Dog over on Goodreads. Click the link below to enter! Goodreads Book Giveaway Derrick the Dog by B.D. Crowell Giveaway ends December 12, 2013. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win
Derrick and Max News
Hey folks, I thought I’d share some news about Derrick and Max, in no particular order. Derrick the Dog is free today on the Amazon Kindle store . It’s coming off KDP Select toward the end of the month. There’s one more chance after this one to pick it up for free on the 13th, so if you miss today’s freebie, mark your calendar. It’s already been downloaded well over 100 times and has gotten some good reviews. If you read it and enjoy it, I’d love for you to leave a review, too. I’ve added Derrick the Dog to Kindle MatchBook…
Why do I write what I write?
This is a follow-up post to What made me decide to write a book? I think I did a fairly good job of explaining why I started writing children's fiction in the other post. But I didn't go too much into why I write in the other genres or the themes I explore. So, let's get into that. "The Journey": Illustration depicts a young boy absorbed in watching the scenery from his seat in a railway car for a series of poems by Josephine Preston Peabody entitled "The Little Past." The poems relate experiences o…
