Last month, I went to a talk from another self-published author, David Van Dyke. He was kind enough to look at my books and gave me a bit of advice: namely, that while the covers for my first trilogy were lovely, they didn't really communicate what the books were about (and this was likely losing me ...
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At last, the date for "The Phoenix Project" release is fixed -- March 20! Meanwhile, I've been absorbed in planning my next series. I still wanted to use some of the research I did while in Ireland, but I'm also fascinated by the progress of A.I. (Artificial Intelligence). So I've been doing a lot ...
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I wrote here on why I self-published instead of going with a traditional publisher, and then here on the marketing strategies that originally worked well for me. They continued to work well until Amazon changed their distribution policies; since then, even though my ranking remains about the same on ...
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So excited to share the cover for "The Phoenix Project!" Is this gorgeous or what?! Actual release date pending... I have a few more rounds of editing to go, after which I'll release it to my street team, put it on pre-order, and send it to my audio narrator. :) If you haven't signed up for ...
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ONLY THE TRUTH YOU KNOW CAN SET YOU FREE… The haven city of Beckenshire has been demolished, and most of the rebels lie beneath the rubble. The few that remain scramble to communicate with the the outside world, knowing that if they are to stand a chance in the coming war, they can’t do it alone. ...
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If you're reading my blog, I'm assuming you like books. Hopefully you also like *my* books, but I’m assuming you must at least like YA novels in general, right? So I'd just like to pick your brain, if you've got a minute... Create your own user feedback survey That's it! Thank you SO much ...
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I wrote last week on my dilemma of the title of Book 3 of “The Liberty Box” trilogy. The working title had been “The Potentate,” but my responses when I told people that title were lukewarm at best. And then there was my brother’s response: “What’s a Potentate? Are you sure that’s a word? Because… I ...
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After parsing through my entire draft in order to work in a new character from almost the beginning, I finished the first draft of Book 3 of the Liberty Box trilogy last night! The working title has been “The Potentate” since before I even started writing it. I picked this because I knew Ben ...
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I hate when this happens, and it seems to happen at the end of every single first draft of every book I write: I follow my meticulously crafted outline, written in excruciating detail and reworked multiple times as I go. I get to the end. And then I’m like, well that was a let-down. My endings, ...
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