“Roger Mantis” blog tour
The schedule for the Roger Mantis blog tour, at the Chapter by Chapter blog! The author photo in the interview is kind of an old one, though. I only wish I still looked like that.
View ArticleHappy Book Birthday to “Roger Mantis!”
Roger Mantis is being released today! More on the book at Rogermantis.com. Thanks to my family and Month9Books for all their support! It’s been a long road. (Mantis and cake image by Natalie Truman...
View Article“Roger Mantis” reviews at LibraryThing
Some nice reviews coming in for Roger Mantis at LibraryThing. Hope they eventually get copy-pasted over to Amazon!
View ArticleSo I did this signing in Wisconsin …
On a trip to visit family in the Midwest, my wife suggested setting up a signing at her sister-in-law’s drugstore that also sells some books. So on June 14, I did. The store ordered some books and I...
View Article“Pirate” booksellers
There are a number of websites out there that have been selling digital versions of my self-published book, Castle Falcon. I discover these because I have a general Google tracker set up for the book...
View ArticleStrange world facts
I got another flag from Google search on my book Castle Falcon. As is often the case, it’s someone out there putting my book online without my permission. In this case, the website had the country code...
View ArticleBook covers
At first I was a little leery of the “cute” illustration my publisher picked for my book Roger Mantis. They explained the appeal to the target readers, and after a while, it grew on me, too. I’m...
View Article“You know you’re old when…”
You realize you just stuck a finger into your Kindle to save your place.
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From the hinterlands…
When you’ve moved, and find out from IndieBound that your nearest independent bookstore is now 22 miles away.
View ArticleKindle Direct Publishing adds a hardcover option (and it’s about time)
This week, Kindle Direct Publishing has started offering a hardcover (casebound style) option for their KDP paper publishing. Up until now, KDP (and before that, Createspace) did not have any kind of...
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Amazon hardcover edition looking good
I got the first test version of my Amazon hardcover edition of Castle Falcon (discussed in the previous post) and I’m quite happy with it. Lulu casebound on left, Amazon hardcover on right It’s...
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Giveaway books are out the door!
Author copies of Zorya. The paperbacks were for Goodreads and Library Thing Giveaways. Got the lists of winners, some packaging materials, and ran a Click-to-Ship session at the USPS website. Postage...
View ArticleWebsite sorcery
I use GoDaddy to host all my book websites. It’s not cheap, but it works, and it’s generally worth it when things go wrong. GoDaddy sent me a notice that they were going to migrate to new servers,...
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“Put that comic down. This isn’t a library.”
I grew up in places where the only comic books were in drugstores. The first comic book store in America wasn’t even founded until I was fourteen years old, and it was 2,000 miles away. I couldn’t...
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