The sequel to Shattered Dimensions, Traveler’s Legacy, has been released today on Amazon. It’s available in print and as an e-book (including on Kindle Unlimited). The audiobook is being reviewed by Audible and should be released soon. A council seat won. A world to save. How far will he go? Stephen Crawford has come a […]
Shattered Dimensions Released
The sequel to Dimensional Traveler, Shattered Dimensions, has been released today on Amazon. It’s available in print and as an e-book (including on Kindle Unlimited). The audiobook is being reviewed by Audible and should be released by January 2nd. Stephen Crawford, a dimensional traveler and former physicist, is obsessed with releasing his new friends who […]
Expecting Friends And Family To Be Your Audience
A common complaint, among developing writers, is unhappiness that they aren’t getting more “support” from their family and friends. Sometimes they aren’t willing to buy the newbie author’s book, other times they buy it but don’t read it, and sometimes they buy them and read them but aren’t enthusiastic enough fans (writing rave reviews and […]
Other Writers Are Our Colleagues, Not Competition Or Customers
Writing is an impossibly complex activity. Writing, revising, marketing, and the many other activities involved are impossible for one person to master. While trying to make progress through such uncertainty, many authors adopt mistaken views of their fellow writers. Some view other writers as customers, and try to sell them their writing. Worse, some writers […]
Recording An Audiobook With A Narrator
I’ve written previously about my experiences recording an audiobook myself. Like most things with self-publishing, there were tons of things to learn and ways to improve the process. I’ve recorded two non-fiction books and used AI to create an audiobook of my novella Merchant Magician (with Amazon’s virtual voice). Most authors hire a narrator to […]
Dimensional Traveler Audiobook Released
The audiobook of Dimensional Traveler has gone live. This was an interesting project. A LitRPG book, Dimensional Traveler, has been the most successful of my books to date. LitRPG and Progression Fantasy are HUNGRY subgenres of Fantasy. Its success encouraged me to take the step of working with a professional narrator, David Winter. The ‘blurb’ […]
Funny Blog Post Series on Book Pricing
Lyndon Hardy is a physicist who wrote a well regarded fantasy series years ago that treats the magic system in a rational, scientific way (he was doing this long before anyone else). He seems to have continued the series (after an almost 30-year hiatus!), perhaps in retirement. On his blog, he writes his investigations where […]
Block Fast, Mute Often
Online communities have been vicious places since they first appeared. I’ve been a part of them for decades, and flame wars and nastiness are still as common as they’ve always been. Half-hearted attempts to encourage civil interaction inevitably take a back seat to growing a community’s user base. The reasons for this have everything to […]
Vanity Presses
For writers, one of the most universal pieces of advice you’ll receive is to avoid vanity presses. What Are They? Historically, a vanity press was a scammy company that pretended to be a publisher, “accepted” an author’s book, then sold them copies of their own book. Whereas legitimate publishers would pay authors royalties, vanity presses […]
Many People Providing Advice Are Liars
Whenever someone posts advice online or writes an advice book, people bend over backwards to believe them. Any questioning of the advice’s validity is done hesitantly. Audiences desperately offer gurus the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this has led to widespread deceit in the advice giving business. John T. Reed famously went through “Rich […]