Holy Amazon rankings Batman!

So about 24h hours ago, Amazon noticed that I was giving “From the Ice Incarnate” away on a number of other sites, and decided to drop the price down to free.  What happened next was INSANE. Almost immediately, the downloads started pouring in.  Within a matter of hours, it cracked the #1,000 spot in the… Continue reading Holy Amazon rankings Batman!

Fighting for a Homeland

For the past few weeks, I’ve been brainstorming ideas for my next big novel project.  One of the ways I’ve been doing this is to by trawling tvtropes and putting together a mashup of the story tropes I’d like to play with. By far, the one that’s struck me the most is Fighting for a Homeland.… Continue reading Fighting for a Homeland

Arrrgh Smashwords!

So I go to upload “From the Ice Incarnate” to Smashwords as a free give away, and this is what I see. Arrgh!  Why do I have to wait??  Why can’t my book be up nowww…? Okay, seriously, it’s not that big of a deal.  I’ll just have to wait until tomorrow to start spamming… Continue reading Arrrgh Smashwords!

Hmm…short stories?

Kris Rusch has another excellent Thursday post up on her blog, and this one deals with the effect of the ebook revolution on the short story format.  Synopsis: short stories stand to EXPLODE in the next few years, and this is good for everybody, especially indie writers. Getting a story published in a magazine 1)… Continue reading Hmm…short stories?

The blog tour rolls on

I’m writing this post from Leading Edge (the internet is down at my apartment), so I don’t have much time, but I did want to take care of a few items of housekeeping. First, my next guest post in the Genesis Earth blog tour is up, this one at Charles Millhouse’s blog.  Charles is a… Continue reading The blog tour rolls on

Goals for May

The last two weeks have pretty much decimated my writing routine.  Between family stuff and a 40 hour per week temp job, I’ve pretty much fallen behind on everything. However, the good news is that with the money from the temp job, I can afford to take a month off to work exclusively on writing… Continue reading Goals for May

Good things are coming

…I can feel it. I got my tax return today, and it was significantly more than I was expecting.  Between that and the money I’m getting from my current temp job, I may have enough to last through this month and the next.  The last time I took a month off to focus exclusively on… Continue reading Good things are coming

From the Ice Incarnate is now available from Amazon

My third indie published short story, “From the Ice Incarnate,” is now available for $.99 on Amazon.  You can read it on the Kindle, of course, but if you don’t have one then Amazon  has free plugins for just about every device imaginable. If you haven’t read any of my other stories yet, I would… Continue reading From the Ice Incarnate is now available from Amazon