May was a pretty good month. I had a BookBub Featured Deal for Daros on April 30th, with the book continuing free for five days, and that netted 10,081 downloads the first day and 14,341 over the five day promo. That’s a lot of books in people’s Kind...

This is my third review of a full read for the Peripheral Prospectors judging team for the semifinal round of SPSFC#4. For more information about the team and our progress, please go to the team update page here. The book is Yours Celestially by Al H...

I saw the latest (and last) Mission Impossible today. I think the guy snoring three rows behind me for most of the length of the movie probably got more out of it. There were a few cool fights, although they were generally in quick cuts close up rath...

Sinners is a great movie, with terrific music, acting, dancing, and camera work. I suspect it will get a bunch of Oscar nominations, which would be somewhat unusual for a movie released early in the year. It’s one of those interesting horror movies w...

This is my second review of a full read for the Peripheral Prospectors judging team for the semifinal round of SPSFC#4. For more information about the team and our progress, please go to the team update page here. The book is Eat by Jesse Brown, some...

This is my first review of a full read for the Peripheral Prospectors judging team for the semifinal round of SPSFC#4. For more information about the team and our progress, please go to the team update page here. The book is Saint Elspeth by Wick Wel...

So, I didn’t get around to running the ads I was hoping to this month, so it was another quiet month of sales, and one that would have been almost pure profit, except that I landed a BookBub Featured Deal for Daros which ran on April 30. This was a f...

I’ve taken to summarizing my indie author business each month, so here’s March. This month, unlike many others, I did no new advertising (I have a couple small things that are ongoing). My books benefited from the afterglow from a BookBub featured de...

I posted the following graphs earlier but realized I hadn’t collected them here. I compared the number of ratings and reviews my nine books have received to the number of total downloads those books have received. Because most of my books are availab...

This is my fourth review of a full read for the Peripheral Prospectors judging team for SPSFC#4. For more information about the team and our progress, please go to the team update page here. The book is Da Vinci on the Lam by B.D. Booker. The book is...