Blog Storm Gathering

So my challenge this month is to write as many posts as possible across as many of my blogs as possible about the release of my latest novel. The idea is to spark a perfect storm of interest in the novel and in the author. I have decided to serialize the novel on [...]

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A Teachable Moment

Okay, I’m getting caught up with some bloggery reading I’ve put off (not because I have the time, but because I get distracted by… Oh, shiny). You never know when the Black Hole of Calcutta will sneak up and devour you. But here is a teachable moment, and the lesson is, “ideas aren’t yours alone.” [...]

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Almost There

For the past few months I’ve been busting my butt over getting out my first Mystery novel. I have not written much at all. I’ve been editing and proofing and fixing that novel to the point of actually hating it. For a while there I was completely indifferent to it. I [...]

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The Future is Coming

Have you seen the Espresso Book Machine is now live at the independent bookstore Northshire? So now a self-published author can sell their books at the Point of Sale in that bookstore. Not that you can just buy self-pub books this way, but that you can buy many traditionally published books this [...]

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Another Round in the On-Going “Industry Must Innovate” Saga

Via S. Andrew Swann over at Genrewonk we have a link to Dear Author and an article about the doom of book publishing. Okay, well it’s more a “change or die” article.
There are a few pieces I disagree with with the author, such as POD machines in stores (the cost per piece is much [...]

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Rejection

I got a reply from Samhain. A no thank you. I think I prefer the long response time, then I can delude myself that they were tempted. For some reason this one was really hard for me. Maybe because it’s the first non-personal rejection. But I think its more that I had gotten …arrogant? Not [...]

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Tip of the Day

Which is neither tip like or daily.
If you aren’t getting Publishers Lunch you should. Publishers Marketplace is a great source of industry information for writers. Who is buying/selling what genre? Agents that switch houses and new genre lines being launched. However it costs to get all the info. For the highlights (still great info) is [...]

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Essential Podcasts – Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing

I will on occasion, be introducing you to some podcasts that I am enjoying because they are in some way related to SF/F. Podcasts, for the uninitiated, are audio programs that are down loadable from the web and intended to be listened to on your MP3 player.
First up is a podcast that focuses on [...]

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A Book Site

With the impending refresh of my self-published SF novel, Starstrikers, I have decided to put up a web site dedicated to the book and it’s fans. I used a template site called Ning Networks to host it. This way I could focus on growing a community around the book instead of maintaining another [...]

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SF Short Story Published

My first short story sale – “The Renoke“, is now up at SpaceWesterns.com. You can read it there for free. I think Nathan, the editor, did a good job capturing the alien and the look of the starship of the story’s title.
I’ve been waiting to share this with the world for quite some [...]

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