Smashwords' Read an Ebook Week Sale!

Smashwords' Read an Ebook Week Sale is happening now until Saturday, March 9th. All of my novels and novellas are half-price, along with sales on lots of other books. Check it out!

Suzan Harden's books on Smashwords!

Half-Price Classes

If you're a writer and want to expand a particular skill set, now's the time to take an online class. WMG Publishing is once again offering 1/2 price classes, online workshops, and challenges on Teachable.

WMG Publishing is owned by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Between the two of them, they've amassed nearly 100 years of experience in the publishing industry as writers, editors, and publishers.

You can take more than one offering at half-off, but you need to buy each one separately because Teachable doesn't have a shopping cart. The coupon code for this deal is

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The sale ends in approximately 48-hours. For more info, or if you have any questions, go to Dean Wesley Smith's post.

I've taken both online and in-person classes, and I'm currently doing the Publishing Challenge. I've always learned something from these classes.

And with COVD-19 still raging across the country, this is a safe way to improve your skills as a writer or a publisher.

Just remember the deal ends on Friday!

Half-Price Classes!

WMG Publishing is having another class sale! Yep, you can get any or all of their classes, including the lifetime subscriptions, for half-price. The code for checkout is

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The code is good for as many classes as you want. For more information, go to Dean Wesley Smith's blog. The sale ends tonight at midnight PST.

The sale has been extended through 5PM PST on November 10th!

Halfway Through the Year

July 1st. We're roughly halfway through 2020. Everything started shiny and bright on New Year's Day. Now I look around and see chaos, fear, and hate.

And I'm less than halfway through my output for the year. I'm focusing on the fact I'm only 83K behind on my target for new words. Given the circumstances, it could be, and probably should have been, much worse.

I'm not going to let all the chaos get me down. I'm doing my best to write things that are humorous and where the good guys win in the end.

I need that positivity. I'm sure a lot of other people do to.

To that end, I've been putting my first in series books on sale for $0.99. One each month.

This month is Hero De Facto, the first in the 888-555-HERO series.

Next month will be A Question of Balance (Justice #1).

Hang in there. Wear your masks and social distance. Stay safe. I want us all to make it to 2021!

Summer Sale - A Question of Balance!

A Question of Balance will be $0.99 from now until July 30th. If you've been wanting to try it, now's your chance!

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More Analysis on the Marvel Situation

About a month ago, I talked about how the promo tricks Marvel had been using for the last twenty years were truly starting to backfire on them and were destroying their sales. Two days later, YouTube geek sensation ComicGirl19 posted a similar rant to mine, naming several of the same reasons that Marvel sales were dropping that had nothing to do with diversity.

Then last night, an article from The Atlantic popped up in one of my feeds. And guess what it was about? Yep, Marvel's problems were their sales gimmicks, not their diversity. I highly recommend reading the article because the article lists a few more issues I was barely aware of, such as the antagonism of editors and writers toward fans, not just the sexism they and their fellows exhibited towards their female co-workers.

Marvel seriously needs to get their shit together before it's too late. Besides, how is Disney going to get new material? Or are they going to do what Sony did and kill Uncle Ben over and over ad nauseam?