How to Set Up an Amazon Giveaway to Drive People to Your Amazon Author Page

I can’t take credit for finding out about this cheap little marketing gimmick.  That credit goes to my awesome podcast partner Richard Kutz.  We host a weekly podcast together called “Three Cylinder Stardrive”, a geek-out fun-fest where we break down current pop culture often from a writer’s perspective and also note a “Dollar Rental of

3 Ways to Prevent Your Female Heroine From Being Cliche

These days there seems to be a trend in fiction and in film to write strong female characters, characters that are strong on their own without the need for a romantic interest.  We can find examples of these most recently in Mad Max: Fury Road and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. However, as the trend continues (as has

New Podcast Up: Selling Your Book In A Wasteland

On this episode we discuss the many methods of publicizing a book that you’ve written, the do’s and don’ts of convention tables and general publicity, and some tips about how you can best stretch your advertizing dollar. We also put our eyes back into our heads after watching Mad Max: Fury Road…and there is nothing

New Podcast Up: Word Counts and Trailer Spoilers

On this episode we discuss word counts versus daily writing goals and how we meet personal goals of finishing our writing projects. We share several methods that help us reach our goals as writers and hopefully these will be some good ideas for you to use as well. We then talk about the recent trend