Publishing

  1. Smarter CreateSpace Formatting for Better Royalties

    While I always encourage writers, self-published or not, to write concisely, even a book without wasted words may run long. All the better, if you have an epic story that’s full of nothing but the good stuff! Still, you don’t want to overcharge readers no matter how good the stuff is, and after all your hard work, you’d probably like to earn a reasonable royalty per copy sold. Luckily, you can make this happen with a few simple adjustments to your formatting. When calculating royalties,...
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  2. Anatomy of Successful Crowdfunding

    I am a major fan of crowdfunding as a way for writers to spread the word and get some startup funding to launch self-published (and even conventionally published) works. Here's a postmortem--well, given how successful the campaign was I guess it's a "debriefing"--of my own Kickstarter, with some thoughts on crowdfunding platforms in general and what my major traffic & funding sources were. Anatomy of Successful Crowdfunding (or, How I made 700% of my Kickstarter goal despite a godawful...
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  3. Aqua Vitae from WolfSinger Publications

    Jenes Inarya wants to experience everything, and quite frankly, she doesn't think she can live life to the fullest in the time she's been allotted. A search through lore and legend from the Eight Immortals of Chinese myth to the Garden of Eden finally leads her to what she seeks--across the galaxy, to the planet of Arak. By eating food prepared from Arak's immortal plants, Jenes can alter her metabolism and gain eternal life. In her case, it’s a cup of palm wine. A real aqua vitae. But the...
  4. WolfSongs 2

    My short story "The Loving and Keeping of Wolves" is in WolfSongs 2 from WolfSinger Publications. She had studied his movements for weeks, and one mist-shrouded morning Tamsa came to the clearing where she knew he would be. He kept the wolfskin there, hidden in the brush around the clear spring. It took her a little time to find it, but she had watched him on many occasions before, studying where he dug for the folded skin and then, when he had changed back, the bundle of his clothes. She...
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