On Saturday, I signed The Sciell and Chains of the Sciell at the Harlem Book Fair. It was awesome! I sold so many books. The morning, however, didn’t start out so great. It was raining buckets. The fair’s outside. Fortunately, it stopped raining by the time the fair started. That wasn’t the only irritation. Our…
Check out my interviews over at Kit’ N Kabookle and C.B.Y Book Club. The Sciell, Book 1 of The Merging Worlds Series, is $2.99 for a limited time! Fantasy/Sci Fi/Horror Drone turns evil in this parody horror movie trailer What Roleplaying Teaches Writers “Human, Near-human, Non-human” by Adrian Tchaikovsky I get to put the monsters centre stage…
I was so looking forward to this post. I’ve been writing it in my head for a week. Chains of the Sciell book trailer took longer than expected. You know when you reach a point in your story when you’re only changing small things? That’s what happened with this trailer. I was at the end….
Last week was Social Media Week in NYC. All over the city were free sessions about building a digital brand. A few of those involved book publishing. I attended Metadata Meets SEO: How Authors Can Improve Their Book “Discoverability” hosted by Your Expert Nation. Discoverability is one of those buzzy, overused words. But, it’s important….
The things you learn when you have to put a book together. Chains of the Sciell is coming out May 26. To start all the heavy pre-publishing buzz and make it available for preorder, I’d like the book to be done by March. This’ll be the second time I’m putting together a print book in…
Book’s don’t sell themselves. A nice cover isn’t enough. The description needs to be on point. Please never, ever say, “This story is about.” Do not go on any social media and say, “I wrote a book and it’s about…” That’s boring. It screams amateur. Some people can get away with it. My advice is…
Bublish is what you make it. I talked about a book marketing site in the post Bublish Case Study. My free trial ended a couple of days ago. To recap, Bublish lets you publish excerpts of your work with Author Insights (bubbles) attached. You can share these bubbles on Twitter and Facebook. The book/bubbles are…
Me and snow had a little problem over the weekend. More on that later. Before that nasty blizzard hit Chicago, I had an amazing time at ALA’s Midwinter Meeting. I had one monster of a…let’s call it an adventure getting from my home in Brooklyn to the hotel in Chicago. I got lost 3 times….
A career molds how a character views the world. For instance, writers see stories in everything. I use job and career interchangeably because, in my series, the word career doesn’t exist. In The Sciell, I didn’t have to worry about careers. The characters lived in a small community. They didn’t have any career aspirations. Most…
It’s a great time to be a writer. It’s also kind of a pain. Authors, no matter which route you take, have to be authorpreneurs. Fortunately, book promotion is like 90% digital. Only big name authors get print ads. New companies are creating ways to promote books. Because they want indie/hybrid authors to use them,…
