October 8th: Tamara and I drove out to Yuma, Az to take part in the Yuma County Library's Indie Author Day, organized by the SELF-e program. SELF-e is powered by Library Journal and acts
Continue readingIn February 2016, I ran a week-long promotion with Bookbub. For those unfamiliar with the name, it's a service that emails readers informing them of free or heavily discounted books. It is reckoned
Continue readingFeaturing the fantastic author/writing podcast: Blondie & The Brit, who interviewed me last week. It was a lot of fun and we cover a variety of topics. Play the interview You can
Continue readingFirst world problems for authors: Editor deadlines. How much of a stressor is this for the modern author? Though authors have worked with publishing and editorial deadlines ever since some ancient druid
Continue readingHello everyone, and Happy Thanksgiving to those that celebrate it! Just for a bit of fun, I thought I'd post a short survey about book reading preferences. If you read novels or novellas (and if you
Continue readingI recently made Ocean of Dust FREE for 5 days on Kindle. Worldwide, anyone could obtain my book for absolutely nothing. Um… aren't I writing books to make money? Well yes… and no. Why (and
Continue readingThere has been considerable press for years about what effect self-publishing and ebooks are having on our literary culture, be it bookstores and libraries or even literary masterpieces themselves. I'm
Continue readingOcean of Dust has been out for over 2 months now. Being the nerd and geek that I am, I did some analysis on my sales. No, I'm not ready to give actual numbers so early in the game, but I did analyze what
Continue readingRecently, I was thrilled to answer some questions posed by a great writer friend of mine, Heather Day Gilbert. Among other projects, she is trying to find a publisher for her fantastic-sounding Viking
Continue readingHello all, and I hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas (or other holiday). A little while ago, Candace, at the fabulous Candace's Book Blog, invited me for an interview. I had a lot of fun answering her
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