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November 6, 2013
Video Interview with Kevin Michael of Remarkable Reads
Kevin Michael is a great indie author and friend, and master of the awesome Twitter accounts Great Kindle Reads and Remarkable Reads. He’s begun a new podcast interviewing young, up-and-coming authors, and I’m tremendously honored that he decided to have me on for his first interview a couple of weeks ago. We talked a little [...]
November 3, 2013
Author Interview with Sorin Suciu
So, for rabid fans of the blog, today will come as a relaxing fresh of breath air—I’m promoting someone, and it’s not me! I recently came upon the book The Scriptlings, by Sorin Suciu. And by “came upon,” I mean that he submitted it to me for a review. The Scriptlings is Sorin’s debut novel, [...]
October 31, 2013
Paid Advertising (Results and Numbers)
Well, I’m hoping this post is still topical and helpful to you by the time it hits the blog. I’m scheduling it well in advance, because I’ve just got so many goddamn posts lined up already that it’s difficult to figure out where to fit it in. I recently had a sale on the first [...]
October 28, 2013
How to Find a Publicist for Independent Artists
Don’t worry, this is a quick post. I’m sure you’d much rather be heading off to pre-order my new book at this awesome site. Or maybe taking advantage of the deal (that ends today) on the first book in the series. I had an interesting experience recently concerning publicists for indie authors. Like any self-published [...]
October 25, 2013
How Not To Get Reviews On Your Book
I review books on my blog. I accept submissions from people who need reviews for their books. I’m sorry to say it, but the majority of the books I receive are not very good. However, I keep at it for those rare gems I find, those diamonds in the rough. I love helping those authors [...]
October 22, 2013
Keeping It Together
Okay, so, it’s time for a confession. Now, if you’re one of the people who pre-ordered a copy of my last book, Midrealm, you already know what I’m about to tell you. But here it goes. I missed a deadline. Two, in fact. I missed the deadline of Episode Five during the weekly release period. And [...]
October 21, 2013
Wyrmspire Art Contest!
For the release of Midrealm, Z. C. Bolger and I held an art contest. It was great. We got several fantastic submissions, and we loved seeing people playing around with the visuals of the world we’d created! So, of course, now that Wyrmspire is happening, we decided to do it again. You can enter the contest, submit [...]
October 20, 2013
WMM Film Geeks Podcast #23: 2013-10-20
Welcome to today’s episode of the We Make Movies Film Geeks Podcast, hosted by yours truly and co-hosted by Chad Kukahiko! This is one of two official podcasts of the We Make Movies film community which you can find over at WeMakeMovies.org. This week, Ryan D. Thompson, cinephile and ubernerd, joined us. COMMUNITY NEWS: #wemakemovies [...]
October 19, 2013
BOOK REVIEW: The Scriptlings, by Sorin Suciu
Okay, ladies and gents, it’s not often that this happens, but I come to you absolutely SMITTEN by my favorite new find. It’s a book called The Scriptlings, by indie authors Sorin Suciu. Okay, so here’s a measure of how good this book is: I can think of no other way to begin this book review [...]
October 16, 2013
WYRMSPIRE Is Available For Pre-Order
Hey, guys. I’m back with another new book you can buy. Go figure, huh? Wyrmspire is the second volume in the Realm Keepers series. If you don’t know what that is, you probably haven’t read my blog. Like, ever. Realm Keepers is my current epic fantasy series, written for teens and up, that’s co-authored with fellow [...]
