We’re at that point in the semester where my students are getting ready to submit their first essays. I work a lot with college students who are placed in the composition class one level below Freshman Writing; they are, for many reasons, a bit under-prepared for academic discourse, and my main goal is to get…
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So there I was, sitting in the lobby at the Upland Martial Arts Center, watching my daughter (a green belt at the time), go through her forms when the karate-dad sitting next to me mentioned that he’d just put a novel up on Lulu. He’d had a couple of mysteries he’d written years before that…
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This week I’m celebrating the second anniversary of my foray into indie publishing. I hit the “publish” button on my first novel, Take Back Tomorrow, on January 24, 2012. While the venture hasn’t been a whirlwind success, it’s been extremely rewarding. I’ve followed that first book with two other full-length novels and two novellas, and…
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I’ve been a bit quiet the last couple of weeks, but now I’m ready to get back to posting more regularly. With a few weeks off from my day job, getting ready for the new semester to start, I’ve used the time to take care of a few things on my To-Do list. One was…
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I’ve been reading Guy Kawasaki’s excellent book, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book. Kawasaki does a very nice job of describing and explaining each part of the process, stressing that an independent writer in today’s market needs to be all three of those things if he or she is going to succeed while…
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The Girl at the End of the World Now available in paperback and ebook formats On sale this week only for 99 cents Her fight begins the day the world ends. Scarlett Fisher is an average California teenager. She likes hanging out with her friends and talking on the phone. She does all right at…
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Like a lot of people, when I jumped into the world of indie publishing, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I knew how to write and edit, and I’d gotten a lot of positive feedback from people who knew what they were talking about. Publishing an e-book through Amazon’s KDP program and setting…
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My short story, “Walk a Mile,” is now available as a free download on Smashwords. It’s also available for 99 cents at Amazon, but I expect that price will drop to free as well once Amazon gets its bots to work figuring out that a competitor has the story at a cheaper price. Like some…
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Today, you can find a guest post I wrote over at the Cellophane Queen’s blog–a post about time travel literature and my novel, Take Back Tomorrow, in particular. The book’s on the cheap for today–just 99 cents. So, head over and read the guest post, and if you want to follow the links to Amazon…
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