Progress on the new mysteryI've made some great progress on my new mystery novel. I'm probably 60% of the way through, writing every day, and I'm just launched on what I'm thinking of as the second act. My main character, Amy Galanis, is a public lib...
A Kenai reader who’s also an author wrote me to ask about my editing process. I thought I’d share my answer to him with you all here. For my first book, Flames Over Frosthelm, I hired a developmental editor who was really great, but I haven’t include...
I put together a progression of 60 days of my page reads in Kindle Unlimited showing good growth from 2019-2024. I stuck with the same date range each year, Sept 1 to Nov 29. Pretty happy with what I found. Data Notes: — I rescaled the default vertic...
I’ve been doing a monthly review of my finances as what I think of as a middle-range indie author – more successful than some, far less successful than others. See here for my thoughts on the developmental stages of an indie author career. November r...
I’ve come up with a (likely imperfect and non-universal) set of stages in the development of an indie author. Here it is: I’ve been at this five years, and I think I’m probably at the Crossroads stage. A lot of activity under my belt, consistent page...
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...
The Woeling Lass will be freeWell, she'll still be captured in a tragic tale of betrayal and loss, but the book will be free. The Woeling Lass is one of my Inquisitors' Guild books, the fourth one I wrote, although all of them can be read in any orde...
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...
I’m doing a summary of my October book business. That turns out to be a tricky month to calculate precisely. I’ll start with the basics and then get into the complications. Basics Sales The total orders graph is stupid, because I had a BookBub fueled...
A book club!I had an author first just today. I was an invited guest author for a book club in St. James, NC, a town near the coast. I got to enjoy a killer Caesar salad with a group of readers who'd just read What Grows From the Dead. We had a wide-...
I’ve done a bunch of these contests now (four SPFBOs, two SPSFCs, three BBNYAs, a SFINCS, and some others), and one thing I know as a participant is that it’s fun seeing your book progress through the competition, and it’s also nice to know what’s go...
Here they are! Got some great stuff to read coming up. For blurbs and bigger pictures, see the team page at Athena’s place here.
After participating in SPSFC twice (#1 and #3) with Daros and Kenai, and lacking a book to enter this year, I decided to try my hand at judging. I’ll be part of the Peripheral Prospectors team this year, led by Athena over at OneReadingNurse.com. Our...
So, I’ve done NaNoWriMo for the past five years, and I’ve written a whole bunch during these Novembers, the majority of four books and a good chunk of Daros (my college was trying to illegitimately sack me during November 2020, so writing suffered th...
Here’s a recap of how it went for my first attempt at selling books and games at a convention. I was at Crash City Con 2024. The registration was easy, the hosts were kind and helpful, I met cool people, and it was overall a fun experience. In terms...