An Embedding Experiment I Hope Does Not Go Awry

You may know that Amazon has a cool feature for Kindle books where you can embed a preview right into a website page or blog post page. Now, on a site like this one, hosted on WordPress.com, embedded material like that is not supposed to work because of the secure environment here. I heard of …

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I Made A Couple of Minor Changes To My Boxed Set

Hi, everyone! Very briefly, I wanted to let you know that I have made a slight change to the title of the digital boxed set edition of the first three books of The Inventor's Son. It will now be listed in the eBook stores as The Inventor's Son Collection (Books 0-2) because that is a much …

The Next Steps with Changes to The Inventor’s Son Series

Hi, everyone! It's October 1st now, and I have delisted The Inventor's Son: The Beginning from all sales channels. Google Play books, again, will probably be the first one to have it removed, followed by Amazon. Then Kobo, Nook, and iBooks will probably have it delisted by the end of the day tomorrow. The version …

Some More Details on my Updates to The Inventor’s Son Series

Hello, everyone! This morning, I took the first steps to changing the price of The Inventor's Son back to $3.99. The price has already changed at Google Play because such changes are usually immediate there. I suspect it will be a few days before the change is completely done with Amazon because Nook takes a …

Some Important Updates on the Status of The Inventor’s Son Series

Whoa, got your attention? Don't worry, The Traitor's Son IS scheduled for release. ARC copies will be available when I create a pre-order (I decided I'm going to do a month-long pre-order for it just like I did with The Explorer's Son) but in the meantime, there are a few changes I am making with …

Taming the Dragon: Can Dictation Be the Key to Massive Word Counts?

Dictation has become one of the topics among authors lately, ever since the Self Publishing Formula Podcast featured Scott Baker as a guest, and he extolled the virtues of Dragon NaturallySpeaking software. I know I've contemplated using dictation before, but never believed that I was a good fit for it. I did not think that …

Now I’m Performing Another Mad Experiment… With Instafreebie!

Instafreebie seems to be the big thing for authors these days. It's been said that you can collect a lot of email addresses by using the service. If you are not familiar with Instafreebie, let me explain a bit about what it is and what it can do for you. Instafreebie is a website that …

My Plans For This Blog In 2017

I have a load of material I'd love to blog about here, but it just seems dumb to blog about it on a WordPress dot com site when I have a perfectly good website to host a blog.

Putting the Paperback Book Theory to the Test!

For a really long time, I'd put off creating paperback versions of my books. Conventional wisdom was that having them was really for a lark, and that very few people ever sold an appreciable number of them. I'm going to get the chance to see whether they are correct about this or not, because as …

I’m Finally Almost Done With My Paperback Versions of The Inventor’s Son!

I may seem to have been missing lately, although some of my fellow indie authors might see me in groups or on the usual haunts. I've had a few setbacks with getting my projects going. I work full time at a day job, and this writing gig is now assuredly a part time job. I'd …