I landed a BookBub featured deal about a month ago for my mystery novel, What Grows From the Dead. I’ll abbreviate the book as WGFTD for ease in typing from here on out. BookBub featured deals are competitive – I’ve been applying for them for five ye...

This article on my writing process was posted as part of a blog tour for What Grows From the Dead. It was originally posted here. Writing past your headlights It’s late, and your trip’s been long and difficult. You’re off the main road, trying to fol...

This article on my writing process was posted as part of a blog tour for What Grows From the Dead. It was originally posted here. Writing to genre – challenges and shortcuts I’m here to talk about my mystery book, but I have been publishing books for...

Vampire Steve is a character in What Grows From the Dead. This was a character guest post as part of that book’s blog tour, originally posted here. Transcript of Taped Interview: Stephen Janewicz, session #2 Date: November 3, 10:45am Background on th...

Mindy is a character in What Grows From the Dead. This was a character guest post as part of that book’s blog tour, originally posted here. An essay about a family member? Are you kidding? That’s soooo sixth grade. No, I don’t think I’m special. No,...

The first stop on my book blog tour for What Grows From the Dead is up. Jane gave the book five (5!) kitties, which is enough to make everyone’s day better. For this blog, I also did an author piece on writing in different genres, if bloviation is yo...

To celebrate the tenth running of the SPFBO, in which my own The Glorious and Epic Tale of Lady Isovar is entered, I decided to read the first bits of each of the 300 entries and celebrate them in a silly way. Using the samples provided by Amazon (or...

I often post reviews of stuff I watch on Facebook, and I thought I might share them here as well. Here’s my take on Echo on Disney. Beware: Spoilers below! The Good: — The lead, Alaqua Cox, is a tremendously intriguing actor – I’ve thought so since s...

I did a financial wrap-up of my indie publishing efforts for 2022 that garnered some interest from other indie authors. The bottom line for 2022 was that I made a little over $2000 in revenue in 2022 compared to about $6700 in expenses, for a loss of...

I quite enjoyed this story from Nnedi Okorafor. Structurally, it’s quite similar to the first Harry Potter novel (and many other such stories) – a young outsider with an unstable family situation discovers something special about herself, and a hidde...