My New Website: AuthorEpiphany.com

A few days ago, it occurred to me just how far I have come on my author journey. I remember when I wrote my first book The Philosophy of a Mad Man I posted on Facebook describing the book as “the only book I will ever write”. Eight books later and I’m amused by the way God is endlessly creative in the ways He defies our expectations.

I’m not a full-time author yet, but a few weeks ago I had a vision of a moment in the future — of what my life might be like if I was successful with all my writing and publishing and promoting. I began to see a career as an author as a realistic possibility. The trigger for this was a promotion I recently ran which resulted in my book God’s Grand Game selling over 1000 copies in a single day. That blew my mind!

The thing is, I’m not at all ambitious in the sense of wanting to be a New York Times bestseller or anything like that. I couldn’t care less about wealth and I generally avoid anything that could lead to any kind of fame. I do want the ideas expressed in my books and on my blog to resonate with people — that’s the only reason why I do what I do — but I want to focus on personal engagement with like-minded people and building friendships, rather than aspiring to some vision of fame and fortune. If I have enough money so that I can eat, wear some clothes, pay my rent, read books, and listen to great music, then I consider myself abundantly blessed.

I know that as a community of writers and bloggers, many of you reading this have the same kind of enthusiasm that I have when it comes to writing. That’s one of the reasons why I recently had the idea that I would like to share everything I’ve learned from my author journey so far, and to be part of a community of authors who share ideas and help one another to remain enthused about the possibility of making a living with their writing.

That thought, coupled with the fact that I’ve been doing a lot of web design this year, gave me the idea of creating a website where I share everything that has and hasn’t worked for me as an author, and where I can encourage people to share their own experience with self-publishing as well. This is not something I could do here on Perfect Chaos, because this will forever remain a philosophy and theology blog rather than a blog about publishing and author success (I have dabbled in writing those kinds of articles here from time to time and was once told off by a reader for my blog being confusingly diverse. And rightly so, it did used to be!)

But that’s more than enough preamble. I’m very excited to show you the website I have brought to life as a result of all of the above considerations. I designed the website from scratch and it’s self-hosted (i.e. not hosted on WordPress.com like Perfect Chaos is). The website is pretty much finished, although it could do with a round of proofreading and I will likely be adding more pages in the future. It’s more of a static website and less of a chronological blog than Perfect Chaos, but people can still subscribe and I will send out occasional updates when new content is added to the site or if there’s anything else particularly important to share.

Click here to visit the website!

After you’ve read the ‘Welcome’ page and taken a look around the website, I would love for you to engage by leaving a ‘Like’ or a comment if you do indeed like what you see and read. You can also subscribe to the site in the same way as you would subscribe to a regular WordPress.com blog. If you have any questions or feedback, you can also email me; I’d be delighted to hear from you.

Thanks, as ever, for your interest in my life and work, and I look forward to welcoming you into the Author Epiphany community!