Over the past couple months I’ve started to work on creating physical copies of my books. I’m starting out slow and just using Amazon to make them. I’m aware there are other ways but right now formatting is a pain to me and I just want to lock down one… Continue reading
Books need covers. Even ebooks. Even standalone short stories. I make my own covers for very cheap: nothing. I download royalty-free pictures from Unsplash and then make the cover with Canva. 1600×2560 is the size. It’s fun to pick different fonts and effects, though I’m not always strictly following the… Continue reading
On Amazon I have my ebook prices set to net me a 70% royalty. Cha-ching. The way it really works is not so simple, though. Regardless of the country of the Amazon marketplace that sells the book, the buyer still has to be located in a qualified 70% territory. I… Continue reading
My wife showed me an Instagram post from the official Louis L’Amour Instagram account (what a concept!) showing the late great western author’s office. Damn, was it cool. The guy had so many books he had to have gigantic nested bookshelves on hinges to contain them all. I like Louis… Continue reading
This is an em dash: — You can type it with Alt+0151. That’s what I do on my desktop computer. On my laptop I don’t have the keypad to do that, so I use AutoHotkey to type an em dash whenever I type two hyphens and an M: –m =… Continue reading
I’ve been working on setting up my Payhip. This is an online store that lets me sell electronic copies of my books to you. If we keep things just between you and me, I can offer them at a discount. Yay. Yay! I won’t be selling standalone short stories on… Continue reading
I love Pokémon so much that over the years I’ve spent a lot of time engaging in the extremely nerdy pastime of making up my own. In my stories there is a video game franchise that is an obvious “expy,” or export, of Pokémon, which sometimes gets mentioned or played,… Continue reading
I obtained my first Pokémon game, Blue Version, on March 28, 1999. It was my sister’s birthday but I had a much better day than her. That game changed my life from the moment I started reading the instruction manual, which was tantalizingly formatted and designed like a naturalist’s field guide… Continue reading