When I Was a Kid, We Had a Plane
My dad had his pilot’s license as a kid and we spent our weekends flying places. This is the story of how that all came about.
A Real Website is Important
Over the past year and a half, since I started this journey, I’ve been to countless websites, blogs, Facebook pages, GoodReads profiles, Amazon Author pages and a zillion other services for authors. What’s the most surprising to me is how few authors have real websites, on their own domain. As someone who works a day […]
Back to Work on My Last Days
Now that A Sour Chord is fully done and for sale in the various market places, I’ve decided to put off all of the other real-world tasks that I have to complete and get back to work on My Last Days. Last week I started re-reading everything I’d written so far, so I can be […]
Published Author: Three Weeks Later
I clicked the “Publish” button across all three of the major publishing platforms three weeks ago today, at least what I thought was the three major platforms. It was quickly requested to be published to Google Play, which I hadn’t even thought about, as my sister has an Android device now. And I figured I’d […]
A Sour Chord is on Sale today!
In honor of Memorial Day, starting at 9am, A Sour Chord will be on sale through iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kindle, Smashwords and Google Play. Get your copy today while it’s 75% off the regular price. For just .99 cents, you can get your own copy! Amazon NOOK Google Play iBooks
Some annoyances with Self Publishing
It’s been a full five days since A Sour Chord has gone on sale through various publishers, including Apple, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google, and Smashwords. If you’ve been following along with my blog this entire time, you know that I’m not only doing this because I wanted to write and publish something, but because […]
The Fifth Day
Today’s the fifth day since A Sour Chord went on sale. It was finally approved to all of the publishing websites on Monday at around 8:30am EST. The response has been bigger than I expected — not that much in terms of sales, but moreso in engagement. Through my primitive marketing skills and efforts, in […]
It’s Official, I did it!
The culmination of a total of 440 days of work has finally come to an end. The write, edit, and publish journey has come to an end. What started way back on March 5th of 2013 has finally come to a close as of this morning. I’m fully published on Amazon, iBooks and Barnes & […]
Apple’s Publishing Platform is Terrible
Part of this whole “I’m writing a book” process has been to educate myself about how it works from start to finish — what it’s like to write a book, edit a book, have artwork designed, and finally publish the book. I’ve been rolling with the proverbial punches since I started this journey in March […]
Uploaded and Queued Up
As of around 24 hours ago, I’ve uploaded A Sour Chord to Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Apple. Amazon and Barnes & Noble were quick and painless. After mucking around with my eBook format a few times and testing it on their preview systems, I got it right and had it queued up, selected what […]
I Won Tickets to see Michael Bolton, Unintentionally
I called a radio station once to request a song. I ended up, somehow, winning tickets to a Michael Bolton concert.
