Quoth Og Mandino

"With each victory the next struggle becomes less difficult."

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

Choose-Your-Own Marketing Adventure!

OK, so I was out and about with the divine Sara Mueller the other day, and we got to talking about book marketing, and she said something along the lines of, “Golly gee, don’t you have another book coming out soon? What are you planning to do for marketing?” And I twisted my toe [...]

THE NATIVE STAR has a book trailer!

To celebrate the fact that THE NATIVE STAR hits the shelves exactly four months from now, I am releasing my super-cool book trailer!

As you’ll see, this trailer has got it all. Pretentious black and white fades? CHECK! Music that sounds like it’s straight out of a U.S. Army advertisement at your local Cineplex? [...]

I am ad-manned!

I’ve been following M.J. Rose’s book marketing blog “Buzz, Balls & Hype” for quite a while now because of course I will follow anything with the word “balls” in the title. But that’s beside the point. The point is, the blog is full of really interesting articles on book marketing, including data on trends, [...]

The Native Star has cover art!

So I was kind of waiting for explicit permission from my editor to post this, but given that GoogleEgo has alerted me to its presence on Amazon (!!) and elsewhere, I figure I can consider it officially “in the wild.”

So here it is—the cover art for “The Native Star”! Wooo! Feast your eyes [...]

Nebula voting, new blog category, and copy edits

… Well, maybe not in that exact order.

I received the copy edited MS of THE NATIVE STAR yesterday (my copy editor is Faren Bachelis, who is, if the red and blue scribblings on my pages are any indication, a swell person) and will be diving into that over the weekend. I am happy [...]