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Audiobooks coming soon

I've got several audiobooks currently in production by very talented narrators. Over the next several months, they'll be available on Amazon, Audible and iTunes.

On a related note, I'm way behind on my writing goals for 2012. At this point, it's looking like the only other releases I'll have this year will be Snowybrook Inn: Book Three, and the next installment in my Zombie Galaxy series.

So many book plans, so little time...

Actually, I'm really not writing any slower than I always have. I'm go...

New Snowybrook Inn novelette

I've posted a new Snowybrook Inn novelette, "Bubba and the Sleeping Beauty," to Wattpad.

http://www.wattpad.com/5644833-snowybrook-inn-bubba-and-the-sleeping-beauty

It will be included in Snowybrook Inn: Book Three, which should be published sometime later this year. But for now, it's free on Wattpad.

Movie Review - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

           Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
            Who on Earth thought that such a ludicrous concept would ever fly as a serious movie? This movie might have worked as a comedy. But it takes itself absolutely seriously, so that the comedy is unintentional, and that’s the worst kind of comedy.            There’s so much wrong w...

A way to sell fan fiction on Kindle

I would like to be able to write and sell Star Trek fan fiction on Amazon.com, and I have an idea how I think fan fiction in general could be sold on Amazon.
Here is my idea for how the process would work:
Paramount Pictures agrees to license Star Trek and all its characters for use by Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform. Anyone who wants to write Star Trek fan fiction does so, and then uploads their story/novel to KDP. Amazon takes a 35% cut of each story/novel sold, Paramount takes a 3...

How I, as a reader, decide which ebooks to buy

This post, rather than being a post on writing, is a post on reading, from my perspective as a reader. Maybe it will benefit other authors in marketing their own books. But mainly, I just wanted to write a bit about how my reading habits have been changed by the “ebook revolution,” and to explain how I decide whether to purchase an ebook.
And yes, my reading habits have been changed by the revolution. For one, I’m reading more, about as much as I did when I was younger. For a bit of background...

New novella published: Zombie Galaxy

My new 35,000-word novella, Zombie Galaxy: Outbreak , has just been published. It's the first installment in a new series about a zombie apocalypse that sweeps a galactic civilization in the far future. I used to swear that I would never write a zombie story, but I got caught up in The Walking Dead, so here it is. I can only hope that I won't break down and write a vampire book next. Somebody please shoot me if I do that.

Kindle: http://amzn.to/Kn3h1b
Smashwords: http://bit.ly/IjpHS4 
Comin...

Montana Marty and the Phallus of the Pharoah movie poster

A few years ago, I made this poster for an imaginary movie. Click the image to enlarge. I know, shame on me, right?

Map of Snowybrook Vale and Surroundings

Here is the first of several maps (others coming eventually) that goes with my fantasy series, Snowybrook Inn. Click on map to enlarge, right click to save. Other maps soon to be available: a map of the town of Snowybrook Vale, and a floorplan of Snowybrook Inn.

Book Notes: The Last Legend

My fantasy novel TheLast Legend was inspired more by The Hobbit than by The Lord of the Rings. I read The Hobbit at least half a dozen times from 1979 to 1982. Those readings culminated in the writing of a short story, "The Enchanted Sword," in early 1982, when I was 13. In seventh grade I was in a class for gifted students called Project Potential. One week the teacher had each of us do a creative project in our spare time at home, just anything we felt like doing that was somehow...

Demonspawn map

Here is a map for my fantasy novel Demonspawn. FYI, the dashed lines are roads, not country borders. Click to enlarge, right click to save.