The Devil You Know is now available on Amazon! Church Secretary. War Widow. Demon Slayer. When All Hell Breaks Loose in Hollywood, Marie Doyle Is the Only One Who Can Put a Stop to It. I’ve been at work on this book for a while and am pleased to announce that is now available…
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I’ve been a bit quiet the last couple of weeks–the semester came to an end at Fullerton College, and with it came a lot of work. At the same time, I’ve been working on getting the finishing touches put onto my next book. This one’s going to be different, dipping more into Urban Fantasy than…
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Last week, I had the good fortune to stumble onto Emma Donoghue being interviewed on Michael Silverblatt’s “Book Worms” show on KCRW. I’m generally not a reader of historical novels, but I’d seen a review of Donoghue’s latest book Frog Music: A Novel in a magazine a couple weeks back, and so I got sucked…
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For the next couple of days, my YA Post-Apocalypse novel, The Girl at the End of the World, will be on sale at Amazon for 99 cents. 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 18 Amazon reviews. Her fight begins the day the world ends. Scarlett Fisher is an average California teenager. She likes hanging…
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Recently, a reader posted a very nice review of Strictly Analog at Amazon, commenting on how the book had a tighter plot than most indie novels and that it was better than most books published by the Big 5 publishers. What remarkable praise. It feels great to read something like that about one of my…
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A couple of weeks back, I assigned Harlan Ellison’s “‘Repent, Harlequin,’ Said the Ticktockman” in my Science Fiction class. As I was getting ready for class, I pulled up a couple of clips from Erik Nelson’s brilliant Ellison documentary, Dreams with Sharp Teeth, just to give my students a better sense of the writer. The…
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There’s a LOT of marketing advice out there for indie writers, and I’ve read a lot of it. Many of the posts and pages that promise to let you in on the Secret to Making the Bestseller Lists are just rehashes of the same ol’ same ol’ advice–have a platform, use social media, be giving,…
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There are a lot of benefits to indie publishing–control of one’s content, cover, and pricing; higher royalties per sale; not feeling like one’s book is subject to the thousand-and-one hidden machinations that influence decisions in the publishing industry; not having one’s book go out of print…ever. The list goes on and on. Sure, there are…
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Time Travel–Pulp Fiction Style Take Back Tomorrow is available as a FREE download for a limited time. Romance, mystery, pulp fiction, unscrupulous writers, and even more unscrupulous publishers….oh, and Time Travel, too. It’s all there in Take Back Tomorrow 44 Amazon Reviews with an average 4.5 stars. “Raymond Chandler meets Robert Heinlein in this fun…
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I’m working on my next book–kind of feverishly at this point, hoping to get through the next round of edits before the serious work of my day job starts coming in. The latest book, though, isn’t exactly the newest one I’ve written. It’s one that’s been just about done for some time now and has…
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