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The Difference Between the Release of Your First Book and Your Fourth

I have a lot of friends who are debut authors, and listening to them panic about the things that debut authors panic about makes me nostalgic. You see, with my fourth book coming out, I panic about completely different things. I thought it might be fun to look at the differences between what I panicked...

Everything That Pitch Wars Did For Me

I’m not ready to reflect on the end of Pitch Wars and what it means going forward yet, so I thought I’d talk about everything that happened to me surrounding Pitch Wars going backward. I think I’ve told most of these stories at some point, but maybe never all in the same place. 2014. I’d...

Thoughts About Promoting Books

Have you ever seen actors promoting a movie and it’s clear that they’re just over it? I’m not talking about big spots, like when they’re on with Kimmel or Fallon. I mean when they’ve obviously had a long day talking to random reporters for magazines you haven’t heard of and everybody is asking them the...

Guest Post: Jamie Killen Talks About a SF Book She Loves

Hi there again. Today we have Jamie Killen with us to talk about a SF book that she loves. Jamie is a writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Her short stories have appeared in numerous publications including Mythic Delirium, SQ Mag, Grievous Angel, and Drabblecast. She has also written several audio dramas, including Spines,...

How I Made Less Money Than Last Year

Somewhere, there’s an IRS agent who is going to be looking at my taxes and wondering what on earth is happening. If you’re reading, IRS person, I promise I’m not cheating. In fact, let this post be a reference for why you don’t need to audit me. The business side of writing is, on its...

Helping Authors: On Buying a Book the First Week it’s Out

I’ve had a lot of people ask how they can best support me as an author, or support authors whose work they like in general. And while I can’t speak for all authors–for example, I have no idea how you support a NYT bestseller, because I’m not one–I have one key thing you can do...

How Much of This is Real?

As a veteran who writes about soldiers, I inevitably get questions about whether any of my stories are true. People find different ways to ask: Are your characters based on real people? Did this event really happen? And, my least favorite, are you really Colonel Butler? Sometimes, if I’m being a bit of a dick,...

Guest Post: Wayne Santos Talks About Subjectivity and Being Rejected by Pitch Wars

Wayne Santos is the author of THE CHIMERA CODE, published by Rebellion Publishing. Recently, he reached out to ask if he could do a guest post as part of my new series. He wanted to talk about the book NOPHEK GLOSS, which is one of my favorite new SF books, so I was excited to...

Things I’ve Learned On The Midlist

You see the term ‘Mid-List’ author thrown around a lot, but we don’t ever really talk about what it means, so I thought I’d share my thoughts about it from my perspective. After all, I am a midlist author, so I probably have some insight. As with everything publishing, this is just an opinion. Midlist...

Impostor Syndrome, Insecurity and Being a Writer

I wrote a twitter joke about needing people to read my book so they could tell me if it’s good or not. I mean…I was kind of joking. You know the type of thing where you throw it out there and sort of mean it but ha ha, yeah, I’m joking. Mostly. I’ve got a...

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I am a former Soldier and current science fiction writer. Usually I write about Soldiers. Go figure. I’m represented by Lisa Rodgers of JABberwocky Literary Agency. If you love my blog and want to turn it into a blockbuster movie featuring Chris Hemsworth as me, you should definitely contact her.

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