Ever since I dove into the world of Indie publication, I've been hearing over and over, "You have to brand yourself," from a variety of successful writers. The explanation is that a "writer" transforms him or herself into a "brand," he or…
Every so often, after I have a really good storytelling show, after I've passed my bag around (I use a bag rather than a hat because the bag holds more money) and sold some books, I'll get a straggler who wants to speak to me a…
Greetings everyone! I know I promised some people that Arms of the Storm would be available today, but due to life circumstances, It's not 100% ready. I'd originally planned for book three of Tears of Rage to be in the 90,000 word range. As of…
I'm not one to use the internet to rant overly much. I make snide, snarky, and sarcastic comments on Facebook and Twitter, but I tend to leave my ranting to my real life interactions with people. I've never considered exactly why. Perhaps it's because…
Greetings all. I'm getting ready for the San Jose Fantasy Festival, which is going down this weekend, April 14th and 15th. I'm especially excited about this weekend because it's the first time I'm going to be hanging out with my fellow fantasy…
First and foremost, because I have a writing career. How specifically has the rise of available indie/self publication helped me with this? As many of my close acquaintances can tell you, patience is really NOT one of my virtues. Also, while I love to write, without some sort of…
Almost twenty years ago, I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Robert Jordan, writer of the Wheel of Time series. Book four, The Shadow Rising, had come out in hardback, and Mr Jordan was signing books at a independent bookstore in Sacramento, California. I do not recall the name of…
Once We Were Like Wolves has been out for exactly one month today! It's opened bigger than any of my previous books, and while I know I have both the Indie Book Collective and the Amazon KDP Select program to thank for much of that, I also owe…
"We're all in the dark, and we're all not guilty." This one sentence is the most valuable thing I learned while pursuing my Creative Writing degree at San Francisco State University. Thanks to Matthew Clark Davison for this nugget of enlightenment, not just for…
I'm sitting at the dining room table, a place where I have done a vast amount of the writing on my last two books. The cats are racing all over the place, chasing each other in and out and over and under boxes left over from the holiday…
