After a year of very disappointing sales, unsuccessful marking attempts, and a stalling out of reviews, I caved. I joined Kindle Unlimited, and it’s making me (small amounts of) money. I didn’t want to do Kindle Unlimited. I even blogged about it. I didn’t want to...
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Infinite Vampire Box Sets
Recently, I tweaked the Infinite Vampire series books’ covers and fixed all known typos in them. I ordered sample books, and they look phenomenal, so I’m ordering up another batch to make box sets! Each set will include all 5 books (SOPHIA’S JOURNAL, BLOOD 4LIFE,...
Audiobooks Begin!
Want to know a secret? I’ve been an audiobook narrator for awhile, reading everything from history to romance. I’m not great, but I’m not that bad either. Anyway, I’m finally ready to begin recording my own personal audiobooks! First I’m going to record, edit, master,...
The Createspace Covergate of 2018
If you want to publish print on demand books, there are few options. The most widely used is Createspace, a company which is now owned by Amazon.com. Createspace is great; I’ve been using it for years and years without complaint. Recently though, things have changed....
I Published my First Book
I published Infinite Vampire I: BLOOD 4 LIFE on May 7, 2017. I told about 15k people about it, and had 150 people buy the book! (1%). As of this writing, approximately five weeks after publishing, BLOOD 4 LIFE has 33 reviews and an average rating of 4.8 stars. Next...
Three Weeks After 1st Launch
I launched my first book, Infinite Vampire I: BLOOD 4 LIFE three weeks ago, and although sales have been low, they're meeting my expectations (my very very very low expectations). Many an experienced self- or indy-published author will tell you that the first book...
Is Pronoun.com for you? They just made a big announcement.
Pronoun.com, a free publishing service provider, just announced that it has added a feature; providing a custom publisher name with the ISBN. This is actually very good news. ISBN's if bought individually are absurdly expensive at $125 a piece. Buying in bulk offers...
Sophia’s Journal!
I realized that the Infinite Vampire series needed a prequel, but I'm not normal. Instead of just writing one, I wanted to do something different. So I wrote it, in the form of a 18 year old's journal. Then I worked with a woman to make sure I had an accurate...
No Thanks, Bitly
I write books that include additional web content, and if I put a link into a book, I want a nice, short link that's easy for a reader to type into a browser. Bitly is a free option out there, but before I put Bitly links in my books (and published them), I looked at...