So far I haven’t done a whole lot of advertising for my books. This is mostly because I think an author’s time is better spent writing until they’ve got several books out in a series. I’m about to publish the fourth novel in my Driftmetal series, and I’m still not sure I’ll do much promotion until the[…]
I really love Google Drive. I love being able to get on any device anywhere, pull up my latest work, and start writing. It isn’t perfect, but it beats just about everything else I’ve found for its feature set, ease of access, and cloud-based data storage. The longer I use it, though, the more I[…]
It’s been a busy month around here. Lots of writing and book cover design happening. But before we get into that, let’s talk numbers. In August, I had the highest sales of any month so far where I didn’t release a new book or do any advertising whatsoever. I had an 8% read-through rate on[…]
This is a general monthly update alongside an advertising update. I know it’s not the end of the month yet, but I’ve got enough data to do a quick post and give you a general idea of where I’m headed. I used two ad services this month to coincide with the release of the third[…]
Lots of things going on in my secret little world around here. I’m working on four books (yes, four) at once. Driftmetal III is going through its final round of edits. Meanwhile, I’m already writing the next in the series, Driftmetal IV, as well as the (much longer) second book in the Aionach Saga, Children[…]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted my sales numbers, so I thought I’d provide an update. It’s been just shy of seven months since I published my first novella on Amazon. I now have four books out, with a fifth on pre-order to be released a month from now. I enrolled my first two[…]
If you’re a fiction writer of any kind and you’ve never studied the five levels of communication, you’re missing out on a key concept that could improve your dialogue sequences. Whenever you see a book’s dialogue described as “awkward” or “stilted,” that might be because the author doesn’t understand the basic qualities of their characters’[…]
Today is the day – the new cover I’ve had commissioned for The Infernal Lands, Book One of the Aionach Saga, goes live today. I’ll be delving into the process behind its creation in a future post, but for now I think it’s enough just to behold the magnificence of the piece itself, created by[…]
I am so smitten with technology. After all, it’s the digital medium that has allowed thousands of authors like myself to write and self-publish their works to a waiting audience. April 2nd saw the release of my fourth book at e-retailers everywhere, and so far it’s been my best sales month in which I haven’t[…]
Last month, I did an interview with the On Writing Blog. N.M. Sotzek is one of the first reviewers who took a chance on reading my work, and here we chat a little about the conception of the first book in the Aionach Saga, including a little background. Read the interview here.
Thanks to the miracle of CreateSpace, the print edition of The Infernal Lands is now available! Holding that first proof copy in my hands was really something else, an experience I won’t soon forget – especially since I had no plans to ever release any of my books in print before I came across CreateSpace.[…]
A huge thanks goes out to everyone who’s left reviews of Segment One and/or pre-ordered Segment Two. Today marks a huge milestone in my writing career – the release of my third full-length novel. As I finish drafting my fourth novel and start work on the fifth, I couldn’t be more excited about sharing these[…]
Not much new to report, except that Driftmetal has been bouncing around in the Top 10 of both the Steampunk and Cyberpunk categories ever since it reached the #1 spot in Steampunk a couple of weeks ago. It’s been seeing steady download numbers since the post-promotion plummet, with a higher average than before as positive[…]
As of this morning, Driftmetal is sitting at #1 in Steampunk. Thanks to at least two well-timed promotions, neither of which I had anything to do with, the first book in the series cracked the Top 500 overall in the Kindle Free Store and finally snagged the top spot in its category. It’s also on[…]
Two weeks ago, I wrote about how difficult it has been as a new author to get reviews of my work. A few days after that, the first book in each of my series went perma-free on Amazon. In the afterword of each book, I ask readers to leave their honest reviews. I’m excited to[…]
To date, I’ve designed the covers for all of my books. Being a graphic designer by trade has been a helpful perk, and it’s saved me a lot of time and money in getting started. So I venture into the realm of cover design not because I think my covers look bad, but because I’m[…]