Sending One Book Along, Focusing On the Next One

This week was exciting! I offered my book This Broken Earth as a completely free Kindle edition and watched as copy after copy was downloaded.  The final total was 689. So what now? I have raised the price of This Broken Earth to $2.99 which is still dirt cheap.  The point is, that if you are one of

Broke 500 On My Free E-Book Giveaway! Only 1 Day Left!

I have officially given away 500 copies of This Broken Earth after only four days of offering on Amazon for free.  This has all been very exciting for me.  I’m pleased that so many people felt the need to download it, so now let’s just hope that this will translate into sales later. Even if it

I’m Giving Away My Post Apocalyptic Novel – Day 2

Here I am in the middle of day 2 of the 5 day give away of my post apocalyptic novel This Broken Earth.  I went to Kindle Direct just moments ago and found the following information about how many books have been downloaded since the promo began yesterday (click the image below to expand): I have

I’m Giving Away My Post Apocalypse Novel for 5 Days! – Day 1

As stated yesterday, I am going to give away my post-apocalyptic novel This Broken Earth for the next five days.  It is available through Amazon only, though, but Amazon has a handy app for any mobile device where you can download books and read them if you don’t own a Kindle. I will be tracking the

Why I Quit the Indiegogo Campaign

So you may have noticed that I cancelled the Indiegogo campaign.  It was an experiment anyway, and since I hadn’t heard a peep from anyone wanting to fund the print edition of my book I decided to not be embarrassed at the end of the 45 day run to find that no one had funded

New Promo Video: This Broken Earth

I put together the following promotional video for my novel This Broken Earth.  I spent a lot of time with public domain footage, iMovie, Garageband and huge headaches trying to get past the current error messages on iBooks Author (which I will be posting about soon).  I spent the whole day trying to get the iBooks

While Waiting On the Agent…I’ll Revise Again…and Again

I did it, or rather God has blessed me, and I currently have an agent trying to shop This Broken Earth to a couple of publishing houses.  I received some very good criticism from the literary agent, criticism that would make for a much better book if I were to tweak here and cut there.  My agent

On Speaking to a Literary Agent

Today I stressed all day because I was to receive a phone call from a literary agent from Glass Road Media Management.  I was so excited to get the phone call, and had a great meeting with Rebeca and Charlie Seitz who own the company.  Our meeting went well, and we spoke for nearly 90

Writing a Novel: A Retrospective

This Broken Earth  is finished, as far as the series versions.  I will go back these next few weeks to fine tune and tweak the entire thing so that I might produce them as one volume.  These will include a print edition through CreateSpace, and a Kindle, Nook and iTunes version as well.  After spending

My Book Releases Tomorrow…Or the World Will End

As I write this it is 10:20pm Central Standard Time in the United States, and I’m pretty sure we will be here tomorrow, at least I hope we will.  The final part of my book releases tomorrow!  It has been a long 18 months of work, but I finally get to see the whole thing