Year: 2012

Kindle Select Numbers for January

Last month I experimented with two of my novels by putting them in the Kindle Select program and offering them for free for the maximum amount of days. Now that I have January’s numbers, I thought I’d share them. The…

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Being a Fringe Genre Writer

I started seriously writing SF about three years ago. I got lucky with my first few sales pretty early. I never made it out of the fringes though, no sales to the big genre magazines. But in writing those short…

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Twitter Posts from 2012-02-04 to 2012-02-10

Do you Self-Publish? Please take this survey. http://t.co/5iIPGPCT 2012-02-08 I need to blog about Kindle Select more often, apparently. A flood of sudden visits today. http://t.co/66IXL5v6 2012-02-08 Kimbra. Wow! Amazing video and song. http://t.co/7SJPVKAk 2012-02-08 Wow, wish I had $1,400…

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Red Allen on Kindle Select

My Sci-Fi short story, Red Allen, is FREE for today and tomorrow on Kindle Select. This is one of my favorite stories about the legendary test pilot from the novel Starforgers. Set on an arctic starbase where Red must discover…

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Featured Inspirational Art, 9 Feb 2012

Proof that I have absolutely no shame, today’s picture is a washed out Kodachrome shot of myself at age 13 with several of my giant cardboard starship models. These models were built from carpet roll tubes and store bought poster…

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Kindle Select Experiment

I’ve been waiting a few weeks before showing these numbers because in order to do it right, you need some time to see if you’re getting the results you want. So finally, two weeks after concluding my Kindle Select sales,…

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FocusWriter and NovProg2

This is my current writer desktop for my novel, Starveyors. FocusWriter and Novel Progress. In my humble opinion, these should be in the same program. That way it auto-updates when you write. Oh and yeah, that’s a bit of Chapter…

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Featured Inspirational Art, 7 Feb 2012

If you have read my novel Starveyors, you may recall this starfighter. An earlier version of this one, the A-9, was featured in that novel. This model was built from cardboard and bits of spare plastic pieces including a glue…

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Writing Update on Starveyors

I lost a scene again due to using multiple computers on Dropbox. I’m not sure how to prevent this or how its happening, but it sure as heck ticks me off. So today I get to rewrite a scene from…

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