I joined the ranks of indie authors almost three years ago now, and I can’t begin to count the number of things I’ve had to learn in order to make it happen. I made quite a few mistakes with my first book, learned from them, and got better at writing, editing, formatting, marketing…the list goes…
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Sooner or Later, Everyone Needs to Be Found I’m pleased to be releasing my fifth full-length novel, Foundlings, this month. Getting all the finishing touches completed has taken up much of my time over the last several weeks, which is mostly why I haven’t been posting much of late. The book is now available in paperback…
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Sooner or Later, Everyone Needs to Be Found I’m excited to announce that my new novel, Foundlings, is now available for pre-order from Amazon for just $2.99. The book will release on February 1st, at which point the price will go up. Derek Chandler had it all—the education, the promising future, the beautiful wife—but a…
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I’ve been a little bit quiet on the blog for the last month or so as I’ve been putting all of my time and energy into finishing up my latest project, a new full-length novel titled Foundlings. This one’s a bit of a departure for me–more mainstream fiction than science fiction, although (as is the…
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When I released my cyberpunk dystopia Strictly Analog in 2012, I used a cover designed by a friend with a lot of experience in graphic arts. The book is a near-future noir-style mystery about a private detective who’s locked out of the high tech world he inhabits because of physical disabilities. As such, he exists…
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I’ve been a bit quiet the last couple of weeks–the semester came to an end at Fullerton College, and with it came a lot of work. At the same time, I’ve been working on getting the finishing touches put onto my next book. This one’s going to be different, dipping more into Urban Fantasy than…
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Recently, a reader posted a very nice review of Strictly Analog at Amazon, commenting on how the book had a tighter plot than most indie novels and that it was better than most books published by the Big 5 publishers. What remarkable praise. It feels great to read something like that about one of my…
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A couple of weeks back, I assigned Harlan Ellison’s “‘Repent, Harlequin,’ Said the Ticktockman” in my Science Fiction class. As I was getting ready for class, I pulled up a couple of clips from Erik Nelson’s brilliant Ellison documentary, Dreams with Sharp Teeth, just to give my students a better sense of the writer. The…
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There are a lot of benefits to indie publishing–control of one’s content, cover, and pricing; higher royalties per sale; not feeling like one’s book is subject to the thousand-and-one hidden machinations that influence decisions in the publishing industry; not having one’s book go out of print…ever. The list goes on and on. Sure, there are…
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I’m working on my next book–kind of feverishly at this point, hoping to get through the next round of edits before the serious work of my day job starts coming in. The latest book, though, isn’t exactly the newest one I’ve written. It’s one that’s been just about done for some time now and has…
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