In February of 2016 I wrote a book called Write To Market. That book teaches authors how to choose stories in genres more likely to sell books. The premise is very straight forward: #1- Pick a genre that you absolutely love (mine include fantasy, SF, horror, and thrillers) #2- Determine that the genre has enough…
Every Word Counts
I was asked by Chrys Fey of the Insecure Writer’s Group to submit an article for their May Newsletter, but there was a catch. The piece had be be between 200-400 words, making it much more challenging than a 2,000 word piece. This is what I came up with. What do you guys think? Hooking…
How to Train Amazon to Sell Your Book
Today I launched a new series of videos with the clickbait-y title How to Train Amazon to Sell Your Book. The title is self-explanatory, but here’s the summary: Companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Netflix are leveraging the power of big data to create artificial intelligences. Those AIs have one focus, to learn about you (as…
Eradication is Live on Amazon
The Void Wraith Trilogy is finally complete! The third and final book was released on Amazon yesterday. I hope you guys enjoy the conclusion as much as I did writing it! My next book is The Great Pack in the Deathless series, but I will be writing two more trilogies set in the Void Wraith…
Stranger Things Reveals the Real Power of Data Science
You watched Stranger Things, right? So did 8 million other people in the first 16 days. That’s a half a million people a day. How did Netflix pull this off? Were they advertising the show everywhere? Or is this just one of those breakout hits that go viral? Neither, as it turns out. Stranger Things…
Void Wraith is Live On Amazon
My 13th book went live this morning! Void Wraith is the sequel to Destroyer, and may well be the best thing I’ve ever written. Hope you guys enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it!
Launch to Market is Live
Quite a few astute readers noticed that the release date for Launch to Market kept getting quietly pushed back. Sadly, this wasn’t because the book wasn’t written. It has been. I’ve been so busy outlining The Great Pack and writing Void Wraith that I didn’t make time to get the book uploaded. I finally got…
Destroyer’s First 30 Days of Sales Data
On February 22nd I began the 21 Day Novel Challenge. I wasn’t sure if I could pull it off, and if I could pull it off I wasn’t sure if the book would sell. It was a scary experiment, but I committed to it. I’m so glad I did. Destroyer turned out to be a…
The Destroyer book trailer. Holy crap.
I’ve seen a lot of book trailers. Most were…not that impressive. A few were intriguing. Mary just finished created Destroyer’s book trailer and…wow. Just wow.
Destroyer released on Audible
Destroyer has done incredibly well as an ebook. Like, stupidly, humbleness inducingly well. It went all the way up to #200 in the store, selling 542 copies its first day. It’s had three quarters of a million page reads in the first three weeks. =O Now it’s on audio, and Ryan absolutely nailed the narration….