Mack Dunstan’s Inferno My recent book is called Mack Dunstan’s Inferno and it was inspired by Bowling for Columbine, where Michael Moore challenged actor Charlton Heston on his role in gun rallies on the week of a massacre at Columbine High School. Well, the Heston Estate forbid the use of Charlton Heston in the work, …
We all know there is a publishing and ebook war going on and as in any war there will be winners and losers as well as casualties along the way. But as an independent author, I don’t want any part of it. I just want to write and hopefully sell some books. Not die on …
Deep in the Heart Just out of college and completely alone in the world, Maggie Montgomery has one shot left to save her life from an abyss of poverty and hopelessness. Clinging to the last shred of fuel and hope, she arrives at the mansion of Texas billionaire Conrad Ayers. Although Maggie is clearly not …
As a long time user of Twitter, I have been around the block and back many times and have tried automation in a number of forms. Some successful, some moderately successful, and some abject failures. For those newer to the platform, automation is a tempting alternative to spending hours building a sizeable following and adding …
Devon Ruthin and a Vampire in Love This adult paranormal romance/urban fantasy is the first volume in The Ruthin Trilogy. Bliss is lonely and taking chances when she goes off on holiday and meets the man of her dreams, Devon Ruthin. She is trying to replicate the life of a character in a book she …
One unfortunate aspect about self publishing is that the amount of badly written and poorly edited books that proliferate on Kindle especially, casts a damning shadow over those writers who work hard in preparing high quality texts. The way ahead for self publishing is for more authors to take greater responsibility and show more pride …
The biggest change to have hit the art of writing in the last year or two has been the sudden expectation that by simply publishing a book, readers will rush to part with their money and buy it. Dream on. Writing is an art form that has never been an instant cash cow for authors. …
I’ll let you into a very personal secret. When I’m not busily writing, which of course means staring out the window with a blank look on my face, I actually have a list of everyday chores that I have the possibility to tick off upon completion. While none of these tasks carry a mandatory tag, …
Echoes Among The Columns The great god Ra had not yet arisen from his bed beyond the world of man. Neither had the members of the royal household of Egypt who still slept soundly in the cool air of the palace. No one heard the faint clattering sound of a wooden stylus and a wax …
Like many other authors, I began self publishing with paperbacks following the advent of POD (Print on Demand) publishing. It was a truly wonderful way to take control of your own book publishing and have the choice of selling the books yourself, or making them available to both online retailers and local book stores. There …
Turning Point For thousands of years, man in his arrogance, has believed that he is unique in the cosmos. During the last decade of the twentieth century, the day finally arrived when a warlike alien species called the Drana returned to our solar system, intent on re-establishing their rule over the Earth once more. The …
Read any advice on how to market an ebook and all the tips and tricks and how to’s you find will advise using social networking as the be all and end all of ebook marketing. As ebooks are simply an electronic file that slots in perfectly with Internet delivery, who could argue with this logic? …
