My new book, Creepazoids: And Other Short Tales, released a little over two weeks ago. My goal for the year 2025 was to publish three books, and it feels awesome to be well on the way to hitting that goal. In its first two weeks of release, Creepazoids has sold a little bit slower than my first book, but has been doing really well on Kindle Unlimited, which is nice. When I add up all the pages read on Kindle Unlimited, Creepazoids is actually ahead of the first book in sales + pages read, so...
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We are just one week away from the release of my latest book, Creepazoids: And Other Short Tales. Book releases are equal parts exciting and strange for me. Exciting because writing a book is hard, and editing is hard, and getting a good cover made is hard, and doing the layout is hard, and marketing is hard, and at the end of that very difficult journey, you finally get to share this labor of love with the world. You inhabit those words and that particular book for so long that it feels like...
As you may have read in my previous blog post, I am pretty far ahead of schedule with my writing plans this year. That’s a good thing, but it does mean that here in the month of March, I find myself writing Christmas fiction. Now, I consider myself something of a Christmas fanatic, but I’m generally not feeling very Christmasy in the month of March. But, a book of Christmas themed short stories is up next on my production schedule, and so I’m doing what I have to to bring the holiday season...
I find myself facing a strange dilemma. I finished my next book early. That's a good thing, but it's also driving me crazy. Late last year I mapped out my 2025 release schedule and my upcoming book was scheduled for mid-May. That was before I hit early March and had the thing written, edited, and about 94% ready for full publication. The dilemma is if I should push the release up by a month or not. I'd love to release in mid-April, but my next release is Christmas themed, which means it can't...
As I've moved into full editing mode on my next book I wanted to spend a little time talking about some editing tips and tricks I use. And yes, before you ask, this is a way for me to procrastinate from doing more editing. If I'm writing a blog about editing, it's sort of the same thing as editing, right?
FIRST TIP: MOVE SLOWLY
In my youth I was a terrible editor. The reason for this was speed. I got so excited when I'd finish the rough draft of a project that I'd race through the editing...
I'm very excited to share with you that at some point around 3 am this morning I completed the rough draft of my next novel-length short story collection. My goal for 2025 was to write two books but I didn't exactly expect to finish the first one just a little over two months into the year! Maybe I should expand the goal to three books? We'll see, but for now I just want to enjoy being done with the rough draft of this one, lol. It turned out to be longer than expected, coming in at 85,000...
Welcome, friends! 2025 has started out as such an exciting year for me as I released my first new book in over 8 years. I've had a great time starting out this writing journey again and it was time to get a new website rolling to compliment the new book release. I'll be using this website as a place to keep you informed about my progress on new books as well as posting up some short fiction from my past and brand new stories too! If you sign up for the mailing list I will be sending out...