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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 [...]

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 [...]

I FINALLY read this book (seriously, y’all, sometimes I almost want to quit writing just so I’ll have more time in my life for reading, which is not easy to come by as it is). It was an enjoyable read, as always, with lots of tugging at the heart strings and wanting to give Harry [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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?    

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 [...]

I’m thinking of trying out a new cover to see if it has any impact on my sales. Whatcha think?

No, not to be the one girl in all the world with the strength and skill blah blah blah. Although that would be nifty. But it seems that we’ve been selected to become a Nielsen household. You guys. Seriously? Why–and I ask again, WHY?!–could this not have happened a decade ago? You know, back when [...]