What are you reading now?
Anyone following me on Facebook or Twitter--well, maybe not Twitter so much--will know that I have recently developed a fondness for ebooks. I fought off the urge for a long time, then a friend of mine...
View ArticleHow I Write and Earn a Living: A Poor Man's Version
It was March 16, 2010, when I started my freelance writing career full time. Scary not knowing whether you'll have enough income to sustain yourself, and that fear never really goes away, but it is...
View Article3 Reasons You Should Never Send Out Another Manuscript
"It occurred to me today that I wrote my first piece of fiction 25 years ago when I was only slightly less awesome than I am today," he boasted, tongue planted firmly in cheek. That's right, it's like...
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Having Apathy for Your Work: Good or Bad?
It doesn't seem like my young adult novel "Bearcats All the Way" has been out now for six years, but that's apparently what the time stamp on Lulu.com's website says. In the early days, I was filled...
View ArticleWhat do you write and where did it begin?
When I was a little boy, all bright-eyed and full of wonder about what the future would hold for me, I never would have thought that 20 years later I’d end up in virtually the same place. I foresaw a...
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How buying books helps you sell books
What does this guy know about selling books, you’re probably thinking. The one book he is advertising isn’t even out yet. You’re definitely within your rights to be skeptical of me. I’m still sitting...
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Local Writing Markets: The 21st Century Writer's Untapped Revenue Source
As writers, many of you dream of becoming the next John Locke or J.A. Konrath or Scott Nicholson. There’s nothing wrong with this dream. Keep dreaming it, and more importantly, keep working toward...
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In Defense of Crappy Writers
I try not to get caught up in the “us versus them” mentality that often goes on between legacy publishers and independent authors. If you ever want a good debate on the subject, you’d be better off...
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I don't want your money
I don't want your money. Not a single dime. Not right now anyway. But I would like your time. More importantly, I’d like to be a good steward of your time. My debut horror novel The Congregation is out...
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Free Kindle Fire Giveaway Writing Contest is here
You’re not talking to a world class marketer, people. That’s why I’ve decided that straying too far from what works is a bad idea. So now that Dec. 1 is upon us, I want to get as unoriginal as I...
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KDP Select discussion: observing the pros and cons
I wake up today at the bright and early hour of 10:30 in the morning—perk of writing for a living, don’t let anyone tell you it’s not—and there’s an email in my inbox touting KDP Select, a new...
View ArticleKindle Fire Giveaway Finals
If patience is a virtue, and believe me sometimes I am not so sure, then you people are saints for waiting on me to get this up. On Jan. 1, the deadline I set for the Kindle Fire giveaway, The...
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How do you handle a bad day?
March 16.The day I became a full-time freelance writer. It was not without its share of hardships. For one, the full-time income wasn’t quite there yet, meaning poor-pitiful-me had to produce some...
View ArticleJodi Picoult: Out of Touch with Reality
With more and more of us earning a living through self-publishing, it’s kind of amusing when you hear someone as out of touch with reality as Jodi Picoult chime in about what a writer should and should...
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Solitaire Parke: The Interview
Whether a writer or a reader, Goodreads is a pretty terrific place for lots of reasons. Having a place to track our voracious appetite for storytelling is the most obvious, but another is in some of...
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Lickety Split: New Book Cover Design I Did
No finished product to go with it yet, but here's the cover design I did for a book I'm currently working on. Cost me $0.
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Top 15 Fighter Quotes for Great Inspiration
Hard knocks is probably a better teacher than any you'll find in a classroom. How else can you explain the remarkable insight boxers and karate men and MMA guys/girls possess? Despite many of these...
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