Category: self-publishing
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Newsletter February 2025: My Lost Year
I completely lost the entire year of 2024, at least as a writer. Every month lost. Every week lost. Every day lost except for my daily journal entry. I’ve lost all of those precious minutes that I planned on using to write and publish Death at the Dance Club, the sequel to Death in Shining…
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Works-in-Progress: January 2023 Newsletter
Gee whiz, it’s only January 8. And already I have an enormous to-do list for 2023 that includes aspects of my life as an indie author, as a person, and as a home owner. (There’s always something going on with a house, so I won’t talk about that here.) I’ll limit the topics of my…
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A New Beginning: Fall 2022 Newsletter
A New Beginning: Fall 2022 Newsletter A New Beginning to Die by the Sword aka To Die by the Sword aka Death in Shining Armor Night . . . Saturday, September 10, 1988 The Medieval Fair Site . . . I didn’t want much that night, just to go out to the shop on…
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May 2022 Newsletter: for love or money?
May 2022 Newsletter: For Love or Money? Do I write for love or money or something else entirely? A couple of months ago, I had an encounter with a person who made me think about my motives for writing fiction. Here’s what happened. A few days before the incident, we’d had our house sprayed for…
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April 2022 Newsletter: The Perils of Self-Publishing
Hi, Everyone! Some of you may have noticed that I withdrew the pre-order of Die by the Sword, a standalone novel of suspense. Here’s why. As I worked on that book, I discovered that I was doing lots more revising than copy editing. And I realized that I wouldn’t make my publishing date of May…
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March 2022 Newsletter: New Book!
Die by the Sword Coming Soon I am very pleased to announce that my new book, Die by the Sword, a novel of suspense, is now available for you to pre-order at www.amazon.com/dp/B09WKX9ZR2 for the very special price of $2.99. (The cover shown here is a stand-in for the final one that I’m still working…
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February 2022 Newsletter: a troubled dream
What Troubled Dream Is This? Usually I don’t recall my dreams, but I did remember the one I was into just before I woke up Friday morning. I dreamed that Jess and were at the premiere of a Stephen Amell movie, and Amell himself of Arrow fame was there. He wore a pair of chinos…
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January 2022 Newsletter
Starting a New Year . . . Somehow, I’ve managed to start the new year by catching a cold. Apparently, this happened when I went to my doctor for a well woman check-up about a week ago. Of course, I went fully masked and observed the distancing protocol for the most part except when my…
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November 2021 Newletter
Cat Chores and More Like my daughter and I, our black Bombay cat named Safa has his chores around the house. (We first named him Satyavan and his sister Savitri from the Hindu story about a couple similar to the Greek Orpheus and Eurydice, only in the Hindu version the wife rescues her hubby from…
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October 2021 Newsletter
A Bad Case of the Ya-Gottas “Ya gotta,” says the voice in my head. “Ya gotta get a COVID booster shot.” “Ya gotta work on your website; it’s a mess.” “Ya gotta trim the hedges before the weather gets bad.” “Ya gotta redo your Amazon Author Central page and add pages in other countries.” “Ya…