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Wow, So THAT Happened! (Day One Launch Results)

You never really know how the results of your experiments will pan out, until you dive in and things start to happen. Day One of launching my new book Write Short Kindle Books for FREEwent REALLY well! I’m keeping detailed notes on everything I’m doing throughout this launch and the results they yield, and I’ll be sharing that with folks down the line too. But for now, here’s a quick look at what happened!

Day One FREE Launch Results

Launching on a Sunday felt a bit weird, but it worked out sur...

Grab “Write Short Kindle Books” For FREE on Kindle – And A Peek Behind the Book Launch Curtain!

Today I’m super excited to announce the launch of my new book,Write Short Kindle Books: A Self-Publishing Manifesto for Non-Fiction Authors, which is available on Kindle FOR FREE for a very limited time starting RIGHT NOW! This book kicks off a new series for indie authors — whether you’re anewer writer looking to exploreself-publishing for the first time or an established indie author looking to up your gamewith a different approach to self-publishing.

The book is FREE for a very limited time...

Books, Games, Podcasts, Videos and MORE in 2015!

Hope everyone out there had a safe and pleasant New Year! 2015 is going to be another wild and zany year of change for me, as I continue to expand my writing projects in bigger, bolder directions with new books, new freelance ventures, and other related happenings. I’m going to be pushing hard this year to lay down a foundation for a slew ofnew projects, and I’m excited to dive in! Here’s a quick taste of a FEW of the things coming down the pipeline shortly!

1)New Book Releases Galore!

I spent...

Writer Shop Talk: Post-Launch Depression

It takes a tremendous amount of willpower, energy, and focus to create something. To take an idea and see it through to fruition, whether it’s a book, a game, or something else. It’s very easy to pour so much of yourself into a creativeproject and the gargantuan task of getting it out into the world that it exertsa sort of symbiotic energy drain on your being. Sometimes once your creative venture is cut loose and set freeinto the world, you’re left with a weird sense of loss. And it can be cr...

Meet Nuggie The Destroyer – Freelance Writer Pets #2

Meet Nuggie The Destroyer, the second of myninecrazy pets I’ll be featuring in short videos this week to celebrate the launch of mynew book Coffee Is My Religion: Geeky Essays on the Writing Life (Vol. I), which is officially outnowon Kindle for only $0.99 (limited launch week sale). In case you missed Seamus, the first pet featured yesterday, you can see him here. I write about my critter crew extensively in one essay in the book, titled “Diary of a Crazy Cat Dude.” Enjoy and don’t forget to...

Meet Seamus The Cat (Also Coffee Is My Religion is Out TODAY for $0.99!)

Oh hey, my new book Coffee Is My Religion: Geeky Essays on the Writing Life (Vol. I) is officially out TODAY on Kindle for only $0.99 (limited launch week sale). Rather than give you a blast of the same old, same old, here’s a cute video of one of my nine pets (will be followed by others throughout the week!). I write about them extensively in one essay in the book, titled “Diary of a Crazy Cat Dude.” Enjoy and don’t forget tocheck out the book while it’s on sale!

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Coffee Is My Religion: Geek...

Writer Shop Talk: The Catharsis of Personal Essay Writing

When you spend years writing about products, trends, culture, andthings, it’s easy to lose touch with the human connection that ties it all together. But that’s what really makes it all interesting, isn’t it?As beings made of meat, water, and thought, we’re naturally drawn towards learningabout others’ experiences, learning from the eventsof their lives, and discovering what makes them tick. I love reading those types of personal stories, but it wasn’t until earlier this year that I discovere...

Coffee Is My Religion (and other new books I have in the works)

Oh hey, it’s been a while! Keeping this update shortish, but I wanted to let folks know that I have a few new books coming out in the near future. This year I wrote manuscripts for about 4-5 book projects — except I never launched them. At least I haven’t yet. I’ve been sitting on those manuscripts while trying out a new venture (indie game development) and getting a new-ishfreelance routine sorted out. It’s been a crazy summer (and now fall) full of challenges, troubleshooting, cautious opti...

Oh Hey, I Just Launched My First Game! What?! (AKA, the Why I’m No Longer A “Games Journalist/Critic” Post)

So…errr…THAT happened! My apologies for being quiet of late. It’s been a weird summer. I’ve been working on a few book projects, slinging words in the freelance trenches, running my podcast The Freelance Game, and oh yeah, I launched anindie game studio called Touchfight Games. Ugh…What? Yeah.

Our first game, Go To Bed: Survive The Night, is out today on PC (Early Beta) and will also be launching later this month on iOS. It’s a creepy indie horror “bedroom defense” game that’s heavily inspired...

Help Greenlight my first game on Steam, Go To Bed: Survive The Night (plus first BETA footage!)

The past two months have been crazy interesting and just crazy crazy, as I’ve been pushing hard to prep my new indie game studio’s first project, Go To Bed: Survive The Night, for launch on PC and iOS. We just put the game up on Steam’s Greenlight, and would super love and appreciate your support! Every vote helps push us closer to launch! Thanks in advance!

If you’re a PC gamer, and are on Steam, please hop on over here and help vote YES to get our game greenlit so we can get it approved for...