From time to time, it’s a good idea to put up new book covers—especially when the originals were ones you made yourself. I realized last year that it was high time to get new covers for my Gunslinger novels, and this month I went ahead and got it done. Check them out! I will try… Continue reading New Gunslinger covers!
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New Star Wanderers cover reveal!
Behold! This is officially the new ebook cover for Star Wanderers. I’ve uploaded it to all platforms, though I haven’t updated the epub files yet. I’ll also update the paperbacks as soon as I have a chance, though that may take a while, especially with the new baby. This image was AI generated using Stable… Continue reading New Star Wanderers cover reveal!
New Star Wanderers cover mockup
So I’ve been playing around with Stable Diffusion, working on a new cover for Star Wanderers. This is what I came up with: What do you guys think? And how does it compare with the cover mockup I did yesterday for Children of the Starry Sea? …and now I should probably take a break from… Continue reading New Star Wanderers cover mockup
So I’ve been playing around with AI art…
Note: this post originally appeared in my newsletter, but I was so excited about it that I decided to post it here too. Enjoy! So my wife is getting a PhD in computer science, which means that she’s on the cutting edge of research into things like language learning and topic models and other techy… Continue reading So I’ve been playing around with AI art…
Retro sci-fi cover fails
Back a few years ago when indie publishing was a new thing, I remember there was a blog that would take the worst self-published covers and make fun of them. It was a popular site for a while, though a lot of the indies whose covers were shamed didn’t think it was all that fun.… Continue reading Retro sci-fi cover fails
2019-09-26 Newsletter Author’s Note
This author’s note originally appeared in the September 26th edition of my author newsletter. To subscribe to my newsletter, click here. So for this newsletter’s author’s note, I thought I’d do a roundup of all the magazines that have published my short stories in the last six months. There’s a surprisingly large number of them.… Continue reading 2019-09-26 Newsletter Author’s Note
Edenfall cover reveal!
Last week in my author newsletter, I revealed the cover art for my next big novel release, Edenfall. This is the sequel to Genesis Earth and the second book in that trilogy. Without any further ado, here is the cover! The art is by Lorenz Ruwwe, aka Hideyoshi. I’m really happy with how it turned… Continue reading Edenfall cover reveal!
Thoughts on Minimum Viable Product
So I read an article on Draft2Digital’s blog about Minimum Viable Product and what it means for writers, and it got me to thinking about what that means for books in general, and my own books in particular. From what I’ve managed to gather (and I could be totally wrong), the controversy in the indie… Continue reading Thoughts on Minimum Viable Product
Genesis Earth now available in paperback
For the last couple of months, all of my paperbacks have been unavailable due to some quality control problems with KDP Paperback. The quality of their product is substantially inferior to CreateSpace, unfortunately. But for now, it still remains the best option for getting my books out in paperback, so that’s what I’m doing until… Continue reading Genesis Earth now available in paperback
Finishing up Gunslinger to Earth
I’m finishing up right now with the third and final book in the Gunslingers Trilogy, Gunslinger to Earth. Just one more chapter to wrap everything up, then all the final revisions for the last few chapters. So far, so good. At 40k words, this is turning out to be one of my shorter novels. I’m… Continue reading Finishing up Gunslinger to Earth