M. Jandreau

A Sour Chord is on Sale today!

In honor of Memorial Day, starting at 9am, A Sour Chord will be on sale through iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kindle, Smashwords and Google Play.  Get your copy today while it’s 75% off the regular price. For just .99 cents, you can get your own copy!       Amazon         NOOK        Google Play         iBooks

Some annoyances with Self Publishing

It’s been a full five days since A Sour Chord has gone on sale through various publishers, including Apple, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google, and Smashwords. If you’ve been following along with my blog this entire time, you know that I’m not only doing this because I wanted to write and publish something, but because […]

The Fifth Day

Today’s the fifth day since A Sour Chord went on sale.  It was finally approved to all of the publishing websites on Monday at around 8:30am EST. The response has been bigger than I expected — not that much in terms of sales, but moreso in engagement.  Through my primitive marketing skills and efforts, in […]

It’s Official, I did it!

The culmination of a total of 440 days of work has finally come to an end.  The write, edit, and publish journey has come to an end.  What started way back on March 5th of 2013 has finally come to a close as of this morning. I’m fully published on Amazon, iBooks and Barnes & […]

Apple’s Publishing Platform is Terrible

Part of this whole “I’m writing a book” process has been to educate myself about how it works from start to finish — what it’s like to write a book, edit a book, have artwork designed, and finally publish the book. I’ve been rolling with the proverbial punches since I started this journey in March […]

Uploaded and Queued Up

As of around 24 hours ago, I’ve uploaded A Sour Chord to Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Apple. Amazon and Barnes & Noble were quick and painless.  After mucking around with my eBook format a few times and testing it on their preview systems, I got it right and had it queued up, selected what […]

Progress Update: A Sour Chord

After what felt like forever of no progress, things are finally moving in the right direction with A Sour Chord. I got artwork back from the graphic designer who implemented all of the changes I requested and it looked amazing.  To make sure I was really in love with it, I compiled the book into […]

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