Author of The Relics of War, The Caein Legacy, & Wraith and the Revolution
Kobo/Kobo Plus I first began selling books on Kobo back in 2021, when I learned about the platform via an author friend of mine. At the time, it wasn’t big in the US; Kobo is a Canadian company, but has a fairly large readership in the UK and Australia too. But over the years, Kobo […]
BookBub as a Resource for Readers and Authors I’ve spoken of BookBub on my blog a few times, but mostly in the context of their Featured Deals. There’s a lot more to BookBub than its massive promotion email, and it’s a resource for readers and authors alike. And in my opinion, too few people know […]
Expanding my Authoring Empire (And some thoughts on Draft2Digital) I’m always looking for ways to increase my reach as an author, whether it’s trying new things on social media or adding my books to new platforms. It takes work, but it’s totally worth it when someone asks if they kind find my book at a […]
Typos, Glitches, and Postal Fails: The Unexpected Quirks of Publishing a Book At this point in my authoring career, I’ve published 10 full-length novels, 1 novella, 1 short story, and now, an anthology. While I’ve ironed out most of the issues I ran into early on, there are still so many things that can go […]
Dealing with negative reviews Every writer is going to get them from time to time, since writing is subjective, but negative reviews can hurt and really derail your day—if you let them. Some authors never look at their reviews, and that’s definitely one way to cope with the negatives. But there are others whose curiosity […]
Registering my books as human authored (I can’t believe it’s come to this) There was a time, not so long ago, when no one had to worry about being accused of using AI to generate their books/artwork/music. AIs were depicted only in science fiction, sometimes as a thing to be feared, sometimes as a useful […]
My Latest BookBub Featured Deal In early September, another of my books was accepted for a BookBub Featured Deal. This was my fourth deal, but the first time I landed a US one. I was surprised I got a US deal, and even more so that it was for book 1 of my first series, […]
Bots are signing up to my newsletter? WTF As some of you know, I have a monthly newsletter (separate from my blog), and I’ve been sending it regularly for about 3 years now. I don’t have a huge number of subscribers, but I’m happy enough with the 3-digit number I currently have. I don’t advertise […]
You know you’re starting to “make it” when… (The story of an attempted book cover scam) For those of you who are still hanging around on Twitter/X, you know that there has been a massive influx of bots and scammers over the past few months. It’s gotten to the point that more than half of […]
Marketing Experiments and Learning What Works As I scientist, I look at many things as “an experiment,” even if they have nothing to do with my laboratory. Without experimentation, I’ll never learn what works best and what fails spectacularly. In the lab, there are set standards I have to follow when attempting something new, but […]
