Author of spooky, fantastical and swoony fiction and blogger of high strangeness.
All righty, gang, I finally found the time to re-redo my cover for Dominion. To refresh everybody’s memory, here is the clear favorite from the last round of cover voting: And here’s the latest version, which pretty much goes in a completely different direction: And to help you decide which fits best, here’s […]
Read More »Two more excellent questions from reader and commenter Michelle (a.k.a., The Barenaked Critic): What makes [self-publishing] so fulfilling for you, personally? Would you ever want to go the traditional route with a future book? The answer to the first question has bearing on the answer to the second, so let’s start there. In my post […]
Read More »In my previous post about getting over the stigma of self-publishing, commenter Michelle (a.k.a. The Barenaked Critic) asked me several good questions, one of which was to elucidate on the pros and cons of self-publishing. I think I pretty well covered the pros in my previous post: you avoid the sometimes years-long process of trying […]
Read More »Thanks to everyone who offered feedback on the potential cover concepts for Dominion of the Damned. The general consensus was overwhelmingly in favor of the third concept, featuring a girl with a gun standing on a desolate highway, the feedback on which ranged from “least cheesy” to “awesome.” Of course, for practical and budgetary reasons […]
Read More »Over the last few years there’s been an explosion in self-publishing, with the advent of not just the e-reader, but accessible technology that makes publishing an e-book easy, low- or no-cost, and potentially very lucrative. And it’s not just e-books, either. Gone are the days of vanity presses where an author who couldn’t get published […]
Read More »This time for Dominion. I have an opinion, but I’m going to keep it to myself for the time being. First, the cover I originally mocked up waaay back in 2009 for NaNoWriMo (which isn’t really up for consideration–it’s just so you can see where I started from): And now a more stylized and […]
Read More »Okay, I tweaked the new cover a bit more, and I need help deciding which I like best: the daytime version or the nighttime one?
Read More »I was recently asked how to make an e-book available on Amazon. The short answer, I said, was to go to Kindle Direct Publishing and go from there… and then I promised to write a post explaining the long answer. So here’s that post. The first step… well, the first step is to write your […]
Read More »I’m thinking of trying out a new cover to see if it has any impact on my sales. Whatcha think?
Read More »It’s been a while since I’ve done an update here on how Dominion of the Damned is coming along. I’m still in the first revision stage, but so far it’s going smoothly and I’m starting to gain some momentum. I’m more than halfway through the second draft, and if I can keep devoting a couple of […]
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