An event such as a launch party for your new book is all about details, but you shouldn't need to become so immersed in them that you can't enjoy the show. One way to assure that is  to find sufficient help. Salesperson. It is essential to find someone you trust to handle your book sales … Continue reading Your Launch Party Hit List

Okay, so what is it? And why do it? Why not thank your most ardent supporters and fans, friends, neighbors, or anyone who has had a special role in the production of your book? Invite them to your home or similar intimate venue a week or so prior to you book launch, treat them to … Continue reading A Pre-Launch Party?

Once my paperback was successfully published on CreateSpace, I needed to turn my head back to marketing. I had read advice that in essence was a recommendation to start advertising locally and move outward in successive waves of proliferation, advice that made sense to me. It is important, the advice continued, to have personal contact … Continue reading Launch Party?

After my novel had become available through Amazon and all the on-line retailers that support Smashword I decided to publish a print version. I resisted this at first, for several reasons. One was vanity. To publish in any way other than the traditional agent/publisher route still smacks of settling for less. But when I considered … Continue reading Publish Trad or POD?

My blog posts here are following a pattern: they describe my passage into the self-publishing world, page by page. The Other, my eBook offering that is now available for your Nook, Kindle, iPad or the like has had great reviews but few reads. It has become clear to me that one may write a gem … Continue reading Finding Readers

Most people who visit Amazon.com and browse through the infinite layers of books and eBooks probably believe (if indeed they actually think about it) that the best favor they can do for an author is to buy their book. But that would be wrong. The best thing they could do for the author is review … Continue reading What Friends Can Do For Authors

Something I've noticed lately in my reading is that many authors have difficulty finishing their stories. They begin strong with fresh new ideas and continue strongly for a while but somewhere two-thirds of the way through the book one senses that the writer is becoming concerned that the individual strands aren't coming together as effortlessly … Continue reading Finishing The Story

There is a new Zack Tolliver adventure in the works expected within the next few months. Its title is MESTACLOCAN and those of you who know what that is will have a sense of what's coming. But this time Zack and Eagle Feather find themselves in a very different environment, one that does not lend itself … Continue reading New Zack Tolliver Adventure

There's a rather interesting puzzle that found its way into the story in my novel The Other, something I have yet to solve for myself. It's an anomaly that is found near Coachella State Park just before Libby, Eagle Feather and Big Blue descend to meet Zack and the FBI team following their harrowing trek … Continue reading Finding The Story