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Divergent Review: Five Minute Books

Today we’re going to talk about the book that tried super hard to be The Hunger Games. Each week on my YouTube channel, I review books. I alternate between the number one best selling ebook on Amazon, and an independent title of my own choosing. For my first review, I did a bestseller, and the [...]

I’m Doing A New Thing

As if I didn’t have enough going on. Now that I finally have a camera again, I can start shooting whenever I want to. And what I’ve wanted to do for a while is a book review web show. Because … there’s no better medium than video to talk about books, I guess? Anyway, I’ve [...]

Collaborative Success

I want to talk about conduct in artistic industries, and the nature of competition, and competitors versus allies, and that kind of thing. I’m getting REALLY, REALLY into online video these days. I’ve vlogged daily for months weeks now, and I have a long, long list of topics to talk about in future videos, so [...]

Artivism — the New Social Change

There’s a continually growing amount of celebrities in the world who are using their voices to throw massive amounts of money behind charities and other good causes. This has been going on a long time and isn’t anything new, but recently it seems like I see more and more people that found their success and [...]

Change, the Publishing Landscape, and the “Pure” Writer

Boy, I should be active on Facebook more often. I keep writing long-ass comments in my Writer’s group there, that end up being repurposed as blog posts. So, someone in my Facebook writer’s group posted this article about the changing landscape of traditional publishing, and how hard it is for “mid-list” published authors to catch [...]

“Life” Versus “Career” — the False Dichotomy

I want to talk about the idea of “Life” versus “Career.” If you know much about me, you know that I’m married and I just had my third kid. And I’m pretty young to have done that, by the standards of most people. My wife and I got married when I was 21. We had [...]

About My Mom

Three years ago today, my mother passed away. She died at home. My father held one of her hands, and I held the other. I didn’t cry in all the hours leading up to it, and I didn’t cry immediately afterward. An hour later I posted on Facebook, “Bye Mom.” Finally the dam broke, and [...]

Your Time is Too Precious

You probably get lots of social media friends asking for “five seconds of your time.” They probably want you to vote for their video on Indi.com. Or they want you to sign a petition for a cause they believe in. With the nature of social media, you probably don’t see MOST of these requests. They [...]

Jared Leto is Not the Problem

A friend of mine shared this article on Facebook. I wrote this reply. I then decided it would make a good blog post. If you read names and don’t know who I’m talking about, it’s my Facebook friends. If this blogger honestly thinks that Leto took on the role or acted in it to in [...]

It’s My Birthday

Hi, Rebels. I turned 28 today. When I turned 27, I had a full-time job. Now I work from home as a self-published author and an independent filmmaker. When I turned 27, I had published 6 books. Now I’ve published 28. When I turned 27, I did not run a podcasts. Now I run two [...]