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Why should I treat my self-publishing as a business?
Run your self-publishing efforts as a business. You’ve probably heard this many times before, but why does it get said so often? Lately I’ve seen several people ignoring this advice and I don’t...
View ArticlePublishing; as it was done 50 years ago.
I ran across this video and was amazed at the process that a book went through to get to the reader only a few decades ago. We have truely come a long way. <iframe width=”420″ height=”315″...
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Pestilence coverart.
More awesome coverart from Derek Murphy. Two down and one to go and this series will be up and running! Be nice to have my real name on a book for a change!
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Third story added to the Shorts page
“Two Hours with Jack” is now up and ready to be read on the shorts page. Its a short story even by my definition, but it gives you a good view of Jack and the demons that haunt him. Free of charge....
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The world did not end…and other news.
I know, I know, it’s been some time since a post appeared here and I apologize. The last six weeks has been busy well beyond what I would consider normal. Between NaNo, holiday shopping, buying a new...
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Closure free for 5 days on Amazon
As a Merry Christmas to all I’m putting Closure, the first novel in the Jack Randall series, up for free until the new year arrives. So if you or someone you know likes a good thriller please steer...
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Scarcity (Jack Randall #3) now available
Like the title says, book #3 of the Jack Randall series is now available on Amazon, Nook* and Kobo. The blurb; A teenage girl is kidnapped in Mexico City as a young boy in Afghanistan is wounded by...
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How Indie are you?
As the world of self-publishing continues to grow and change, the term indie author is naturally evolving as well. Most would define the term in the simplest definition as possible; Indie Author: An...
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New Short Story
Another installment in the TIME short story collection. This is story five of six and I have to say that makeing them all tie together within the one-day timeframe was a bit of a challenge. One...
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How many reviews do you need?
How many reviews does one book need? Right now as I type these words the internet is alive with debate, speculation, some outright rumor, and a lot of snark over the recent acquisition of Goodreads by...
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Get Closure for 99 cents!
As a little experiment I’m offering the kindle version of Closure for the low price of 99 cents for one week. 452 pages of thriller for a quarter of the cost of a Starbucks coffee, can’t beat that!...
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Bestseller List or just a list of BS?
Not long ago my wife called me from the bookstore and asked if I wanted the latest book by one of my favorite authors. I said sure, this author had never disappointed me in the past and...
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Russell Blake & Me
The other day my inbox received an unusual amount of traffic from my readers. They were all angry, worried, or some combination of the two. It would seem that another author by the name of Russell...
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn’t be writing screenplays. I’d be writing novels. -Quentin Tarantino
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What do bookstores want…and why indie authors should learn to give it to...
No doubt you’ve heard of Barnes & Noble. Perhaps even Chapters Indigo. Maybe even Waterstones. But have you heard of Dymocks? How about Eason & Son? Crossword Books? These are just a sample...
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And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write – every day, no excuses. It’s so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they’d...
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Whats going to happen next?
It’s said that when an industry is in disruption the rate of that disruption increases until the new norm is established. We’re seeing this in the publishing industry today. The foreseeable...
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Are we born to be writers?
I have three children. One of them is me. I don’t mean in the literal sense obviously, that would be creepy. I’m referring to my eight year old. As he matures I can’t help but see more and more of me...
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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? -Steven Wright
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