Self-publishing experiment: Changing your book title MID-LAUNCH! Crazy or...
One of the things I REALLY love about self-publishing is that it gives you the speed, flexibility, and freedom to try bold experiments and turn on a dime to respond to how your book is performing. I’m...
View ArticleWriter Shop Talk: Are You an Indie Author?
It occurred to me when I set out on this new branch of my self-publishing adventure that my choice of using the phrase “Indie Author” in the title of my latest book — and an entire self-publishing...
View ArticleBuilding Launch Momentum for your Kindle Books (Without a HUGE Author...
If you’ve got a massive author platform to tap into, it’s not hard to rocket your books up Amazon’s charts and move some serious units right from the get-go. But what if you’ve got less to work with?...
View ArticleWriter Shop Talk: Letting Your Book Drafts Percolate
A while ago, I decided that my creative and professional plans for 2015 would include launching a STUPID amount of quality books this year. Things are off to a great start, with Write Short Kindle...
View ArticleWriter Shop Talk: 5 Alternative Ways to Write a Book
Words and ideas don’t come easily to everyone. Each of us has our own mental blocks and quirks that can inhibit our creative flow from time to time. As I delve into in great detail with the first book...
View ArticleWriter Shop Talk: Writing Targeted Books
I’m in the middle of a tight deadline week, so I’ll keep this short-ish [edit: HAHAHA YEAH RIGHT], but I wanted to take a quick moment to reflect on something I’ve mentioned in the past that was really...
View ArticleWriter Shop Talk: A Few Thoughts On Not Giving Up
I can think of a staggering number of moments throughout my decade-long journey as a professional writer where I could have just given up: on key projects, on my quest for certain dream gigs, on...
View ArticleWriter Shop Talk: Post-Launch Depression
It takes a tremendous amount of willpower, energy, and focus to create something. To take an idea and see it through to fruition, whether it’s a book, a game, or something else. It’s very easy to pour...
View ArticleWriter Shop Talk: The Catharsis of Personal Essay Writing
When you spend years writing about products, trends, culture, and things, it’s easy to lose touch with the human connection that ties it all together. But that’s what really makes it all interesting,...
View ArticleI want your feedback! Help me out by taking the Game Journo Guides Reader...
Hey awesome people, readers, blog visitors, and other assorted humans! I need your help! As I continue plugging away at writing upcoming books and creating other future projects, I’d really love to get...
View ArticleShop Talk: The First Graph From Hell
Staring at a blank screen, knowing you have to make word magic happen is frustrating when you’re on deadline and things aren’t clicking as fast as you need them to. It’s even worse when you have a...
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