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August 19, 2014
Meet My Character Blog Hop: Loren Nelda
C.H. Valentino tagged me in a blog hop. I’ve never really done one of these before, so here’s hoping I don’t screw the whole thing up beyond all recognition. C.H. Valentino is an AWESOME person and author, and you can find her blog here and buy her book Poison & Wine here, which I heartily [...]
August 18, 2014
BOOK REVIEW: Under the Empyrean Sky, by Chuck Wendig
Hello Rebels, and welcome back to my life, AND welcome back to my first book review in a long long time. Unfortunately, this is NOT the return of Five Minute Books. Those videos still take me way too long. This is Four Minute Books. With jump cuts. It’s not as good, I’m sorry! Last week [...]
August 16, 2014
Magic in the Nine Kingdoms
Following are some write-ups of the magic system within the nine kingdoms of the Nightblade Volumes, as well as some explanation of how the existence of magic has affected the society throughout the years. I hope to create more posts like this in the future. Please, if you have questions about things, let me know. I’ll [...]
August 15, 2014
It’s Time for the Rebellion
Good morning, Rebels, and welcome back to my life. It’s time. It’s here. The Rebellion has begun. You know how I call you my Rebels? Well, that’s because of a book that, up until today, hasn’t actually existed. I first came up with the idea for Rebel Yell more than two years ago, way before I [...]
August 14, 2014
A Better World For Women
Good morning, Rebels, and welcome back to my life. You know what’s awesome? Women. Women are awesome. But if you read a lot of popular fantasy books, you might not think that. Recently I wrote a blog post about women in the fantasy genre, and it got quite a bit of traffic on Redblr and Tumblit. [...]
August 13, 2014
May I Have Your Attention Please?
Good morning, Rebels, and welcome back to my life. May I have your attention, please? If you’re reading this, that means that for these brief moments, these eight hundred words or less, I have your attention. But odds are pretty good I don’t have your undivided attention. Many of you are probably checking your phones [...]
August 12, 2014
What Depression Means to Me
Good morning, Rebels, and welcome back to my life. I’m wearing my serious face today. We lost Robin Williams yesterday, and if this is the first you’ve heard about it, I’m really sorry to be the one who told you. At 63 years, Williams had a fairly long life, and certainly one well-lived. As Kevin [...]
August 10, 2014
VLOGANOVEL — Nightblade: Episode Five
It’s time for the next VlogaNovel series on the VlogaNovel YouTube channel! The embedded playlist above contains EVERY video as I live outline, write, edit, format and publish Nightblade: Episode Five. If you’re a writer, check it out to get an idea of someone else’s process. If you’re a reader of the series, tune in for exclusive [...]
MORE ON DIRECT SALES
You may hear a lot of “big self-publishers” talk about direct sales. What are they? How are they different from selling on Amazon or the other big book retailers? ACTUALLY, TECHNICALLY, there is very little difference between selling direct and selling on Amazon. From your end, you are ALWAYS uploading content to a sale site, [...]
August 5, 2014
BIG CHANGES COMING
Some things gon’ be changing ’round here. Well, mainly just two. BLOG POSTS I’m going to try blogging on a somewhat more regular basis. I’m going for weekly. Before, I went for weekly. It went great! So great, in fact, that I increased my output to three times a week. That worked less than well. Soon [...]
