AsylumLake.com Nominated for a Design Award

Many of you may not realize that this blog is not my only website.  While collecting rejection letters for my novel Asylum Lake I launched www.asylumlake.com. The site was designed by a dear friend and talented artist Wendy Mersman from Moon Designs here in West Michigan. She had faith in my and my story before I did.

I released a chapter a week for six weeks and saw an explosion of interest. People from as far away as South Africa and Japan started following the progress of Brady Tanner and his trustyed sidekick Gruff. At the end of the six weeks I received a flood of emails from people asking what happens now? Where's the book?

Of course, I hadn't thought that far ahead. I had a finished maniscript and no real plan to get it published. That's when more than 300 people – complete strangers from across the globe – placed orders and paid up-front so I could publish my tale. Every day new orders would come in and my Pay-Pal numbers would swell. Of course, i forgot to factor in shipping costs and eventually I broke even on those pre-orders, but just the fact that so many people had bought into my and my story was quite the rush.

Needless to say, the success I have achieved over the last year with Asylum Lake would never have been possible without that website.

If you get a chance, visit www.asylumlake.com and give me some feedback. It's not a big award it's been nominated for but the recognition of Wendy's hard work and my passion for Asylum lake is always apperciated.