A trophy!

Welcome, new folks!Hi, there. If you've joined the mailing list recently, I want to make sure you get your free Frosthelm book, Traitors Unseen. If you haven't gotten it, you can get it free here (the site will ask you to sign up for t...

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Jun 16, 2025
My Indie Author Business Report for May 2025

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...

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Jun 06, 2025
A con, a book, a review, and a new project

Welcome, new folks!Hi, there. If you've joined the mailing list recently, I want to make sure you get your free Frosthelm book, Traitors Unseen. If you haven't gotten it, you can get it free here (the site will ask you to sign up for t...

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Jun 02, 2025
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

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...

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May 24, 2025
Sinners

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...

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May 21, 2025
The new mystery is nearing completion

Welcome, new folks!Hi, there. If you've joined the mailing list recently, I want to make sure you get your free Frosthelm book, Traitors Unseen. If you haven't gotten it, you can get it free here (the site will ask you to sign up for t...

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May 16, 2025
SPSFC#4 Semifinalist Review: Eat by Jesse Brown

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...

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May 14, 2025
My Indie Author Business Report for April 2025

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...

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May 06, 2025
A free book and some new cover art!

Welcome, new folks!Hi, there. If you've joined the mailing list recently, I want to make sure you get your free Frosthelm book, Traitors Unseen. If you haven't gotten it, you can get it free here (the site will ask you to sign up for t...

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May 02, 2025
Editing the new mystery

Welcome, new folks!Hi, there. If you've joined the mailing list recently, I want to make sure you get your free Frosthelm book, Traitors Unseen. If you haven't gotten it, you can get it free here (the site will ask you to sign up for t...

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Apr 16, 2025
My Indie Author Business Report for March 2025

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...

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Apr 01, 2025
Book ratings – what my data show

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...

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Mar 26, 2025