Kindleboards: The Best Resource Around
For many indie authors (and Kindle aficionados), this post will fall into the “water is wet” category of late-breaking news, but I’ve found it’s foolish to make assumptions about what others know and...
View ArticleGuest blogging on David Gaughran’s Let’s Get Digital
Friends - I’m excited to be the guest blogger on David Gaughran’s fantastic blog, Let’s Get Digital, today, where I’m talking about how digital publishing has–or will soon–change not just publishing,...
View ArticlePrinting Your Book With CreateSpace: Part I
This is Part I of a two-part series on my experiences printing my short story collection one bad twelve. This initial post covers the reason for printing my title, why I went with CreateSpace, and some...
View ArticlePrinting Your Book With CreateSpace: Part II
This is Part II of a two-part series on my experiences printing my short story collection one bad twelve. Part II covers the “short list” of tips and tricks that helped me get my title to CreateSpace....
View Articleone bad twelve available in print!
I’m excited to announce that my crime fiction short story collection one bad twelve is now available in print at both my CreateSpace store and Amazon.com for $11.99. (If you’re interested in buying it,...
View ArticlePrinting Your Book With CreateSpace: Part III
This is Part III of a three-part series on my attempt to print my short story collection, one bad twelve, using Amazon’s CreateSpace method. Part I covered many of the basics; Part II covered the...
View ArticleUsing your Goodreads Giveaway for Maximum Advantage
This past Friday I wrapped up my first Goodreads Giveaway and thought I’d share some of the tips, tricks, and results I learned from doing it. Giving books away is still one of the best promotional...
View ArticleA Novel’s Journey: A Reason to Live
Almost four years ago, an idea for a crime fiction series wriggled its way into my subconscious. Although I’ve always enjoyed reading Parker, Child, and Crais, I was hankering to write about someone...
View ArticleReview: Ariel S. Winter’s The Twenty-Year Death in the Washington Post
While I work on my Part II of A Primer on Book Covers, check out my buddy Art Taylor’s review of the mystery The Twenty-Year Death in the Washington Post. Art is a professor and writer and gets to...
View Article2012 – A Writer’s Year in Review
Happy New Year, everyone! Like so many others, I thought I’d do a 2012 year-in-review post to see where I’ve come from, what I’ve done, and where I hope to go in the future. Part ego-trip, part...
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