I have to start writing more reader-oriented blogs.  I keep writing author/publisher focus blogs.  Writing blogs directly intended for readers?  Terrifying.  Why?  I don’t know.  But it’s down in my gut, the feeling that I can’t do this, it’s stupid, etc.  Fear of failure.  I hate it.  I’d rather talk about the writing process instead […]

(Via Mike Jasper.) Click here for a tool that will build you a link for your ebooks in the iBookstore, so you can link directly to them from your webpage. By Russel Phillips.

Here’s the list of books that has made it over to the iBookstore: De Kenyon: A Picture is Worth 1000 Chomps Attack of the 50-Foot Sushi Monster Bunny Attack! Class Pet from Beyond the Grave Zombie Girl Invasion   DeAnna Knippling: Abominable A Fly in Amber Death by Chocolate Haunted Empire Mother & Child The

Check it out! Jeremy Martinson of Ponies Studios built a new cover image for my novella Haunted Empire. (Any problems with layout and font are mine, all mine.) Isn’t it gorgeous? Anyway, I put it on sale at Smashwords from today to the end of July for $1.50, using code SSW50.  A SF Adventure in the

Now on Sale at Smashwords, B&N, Amazon, and OmniLit. Feed your fear of snail mail by using coupon code SC54Q at Smashwords… Things You Don’t Want But Have to Take by DeAnna Knippling She hid from the thing for years, but it found her and came to her in a box with no real return address and her own handwriting

Now on Sale at Smashwords, B&N, Amazon, and OmniLit. Feed your fear of snail mail by using coupon code SC54Q at Smashwords… Things You Don’t Want But Have to Take by DeAnna Knippling She hid from the thing for years, but it found her and came to her in a box with no real return address

Kris and Dean have good articles up on priorities recently… Kris:  On Popcorn Kittens. Dean:  Priorities in this Brave New World. What is the #1 thing that an indie writer should do?  WRITE. What have I been putting last on my list for the last two weeks?  WRITING. I have a stack of publishing things

I should have written this earlier, but sometimes you don’t always know what you need to write before you write it… So-Called Objectivity Looking through what other editors look for when editing…I’m going to be leaving out a lot of things that a “real” editor would check for, like awkward dialogue, using too much backstory,

“Lewis Carroll does Inception. Lots of fun dreams-within-dreams stuff that’s full of more than enchantment than frightening suspense. And a must for cat lovers.” – Fiero Publishing/Terry Hayman. I think I’m going to use that first line as a blurb….  

“Lewis Carroll does Inception. Lots of fun dreams-within-dreams stuff that’s full of more than enchantment than frightening suspense. And a must for cat lovers.” – Fiero Publishing/Terry Hayman. I think I’m going to use that first line as a blurb….