Category: Fiction
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Running an Ad Campaign
I just began an advertisement campaign for the Kindle version of my mythical Polynesian fantasy series, Islands of Fire. This is the first time I’ve actually advertised or marketed a book, save for mentioning it here or there on relevant forums online. The ad campaign is pretty modest, as far as they go — I’m…
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Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi
For the first part of this series, I figured I’d start with the first book, 1991’s Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi. I originally bought this book back in the early 90s, but at that time I was probably about 20 or 21, and I only got about two chapters in. What stopped me?…
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Exploring the Indyverse
Those who know me know I’m a huge Indiana Jones fan. Ever since seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark on the big screen when I was 10 years old, it has remained my all-time favorite movie, never unseated despite serious contention from a host of other amazing movies. Indiana Jones embodies who I want to…
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Some Big News
I have two pieces of big news. First, I’m now being represented by Beth Marshea of Ladderbird Literary Agency! She will be looking for a home for my new novel, Sun Dogs, as well as handling my screenplays (I have one for my self-published novel, A Chant of Love and Lamentation, as well as The White…
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Behind the Spark: “You Can’t Do That in Short Fiction!”
Behind the Spark: “You Can’t Do That in Short Fiction!” Brian Lewis, editor of Spark: A Creative Anthology, started a new series discussing his reasons for selecting certain stories for inclusion in his literary journal, and chose to feature “Her Fruitful Shore” for the first entry! He starts with an examination of my story’s approach…
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ABNA Recap
Folks have been asking what happened at the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, which I attended in Seattle a couple of weeks ago. Here’s a synopsis of the trip. In the days leading up to the trip I was growing increasingly anxious, for two reasons. First, I knew I had to speak for several minutes about…
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Anticip ation
In less than 24 hours the winners of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award will be announced. I’m writing this in the king sized bed in our swank Hyatt room in downtown Seattle, where Amazon has put us up for the event, and I can’t stop thinking about how all the waiting and anticipation over the…
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