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The time has come! Voting is now open for a limited time for the Indie Ink Awards! This is your chance to choose your favorite indie books and have them recognized. There are over 400 books nominated. Two of my books, STARS AND SOIL and SMOKE AND STEEL received enough
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This year, I publish SMOKE AND STEEL as well as taking STARS AND SOIL from being a Campfire exclusive to publishing it widely across all the major retailers and many smaller ones! Thank you to everyone who has supported me this year and picked up these books, and a special
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This post is dedicated to Ladz, author of one of my newest favorites, Cradle of Eternal Night. They asked over on BlueSky about marketing when there are no big releases on the horizon and while I provided some quick examples, I want to expand on that here. I know you&
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Not familiar with Itch.io? It's a platform started for and by indie game developers but has recently expanded to welcome artists, musicians, and authors! Indie creators of all kinds are now welcome to use this platform to sell and promote their creative works. Today is Black Friday,
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We're back again with another guide for your potential journey to spreading your wings and going wide. In Part I, we discussed the why and the basic mindset you need when being a “wide” author. Part II, we discussed aggregate publishers, the other major retailers, and library services.
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If you've read part one, thank you! I hope it was helpful, and I hope that Part II and Part III will help you further in your decision-making process. I mentioned briefly that going “wide” means taking a different marking approach a is a bit of a mindset
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“Going wide” in industry parlance is a choice that not many indie authors make and one that is often seen as less lucrative that enrolling your book in Kindle Unlimited. Yes, right now, most readers are on Amazon, and many of them are enrolled in KU and rarely look for
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I like to celebrate my birthday properly: giving gifts, rather than receiving them! I've cajoled several of my friends to celebrate with me and I've got a spectacular giveaway with over a dozen physical books to gift! Read more... Join The Giveaway 3 winners will get
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If you don't already know. I am an author. With multiple chronic illnesses. I love using Notion to craft the exact dashboard I need in order to keep track of all the things in my life--medications, doctors appointments, and OH YEAH, my writing! There's more to
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If you did not know, I've been releasing a serial titled THE LAST PAGE. This actually started off as a novel, but it had a TON of subplots and it was just too much going on all at once. When I discovered the serial format, I knew that
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This is the second post in a blog series I am calling “Things I Didn't Know I Needed to Know!” In this series, I will speak to authors about their research process for their novels and the strange things they found themselves searching the internet for at 5
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I've been busy both editing Smoke and Steel and making sure it is up for pre-order everywhere that it can be. So far you can pre-order the ebook at: * Amazon * Apple * BN * Google * Kobo * Smashwords Find it at your favorite retailer SMOKE AND STEEL follows the journey of