Several blogs past, I wrote about reviews and their value to authors. My focus, I now know, was limited. I was thinking of reader reviews on Amazon and even Goodreads. Those are important, there is no doubt. However, as I become more aware of the details of marketing, professional reviews…
This has been an award-winning year so far in many ways. Perhaps the brightest spot was winning the Best Sci-Fi Series Award by the Texas Association of Authors. This was all about the Host Saga featuring Van Childs and his fight to prepare and save mankind from a ruthless, world…
So, what have I been doing you ask? At least some people have asked. The truth is I’ve been consumed this year by writing Book 4, New Horizons, and working on my other job as a leadership coach. Did I mention that I have also been working on a very…
I recently participated in my first media interview. Thought I would never do one, but ended up doing two! I met Rob Brown of For Book Lovers Only at a Texas Authors marketing event in Houston several months ago. He interviews authors on both TV and radio and has studios…
My primary editor Tammy Salyer reminded me that I started this writing adventure just over two years ago with the objective of doing three books (then a trilogy) by September of this year. And, thanks to a lot of people, I can get there as planned. I may move the…
Happy New Year and welcome to 2017! Like many of you, I have plans for this year, among them the publication of my first fiction books. This January 1st marks 18 months since I first embarked on this path and I can start to see the light. Book 1, Future…
I’m taking a break from the re-write of Book 2, Immortal Guardian. As a new science fiction writer, I thought that in this book I would have done a better job than I did in Book 1, Future Discovered. In some cases, that’s true. In others … well let’s just…
Writing to me is fun. Laying out your ideas so they make sense and then hoping that others find it fun as you did when you were writing. My first book wasn’t really a book, it was my doctoral dissertation . . . but my committee chair kept calling it…
