Category Archives: Writing

Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited – Good for Readers, What About Authors?

Posted on July 19, 2014 by thewoodlander

By now you’ve probably heard of Kindle Unlimited, Amazon’s new subscription service that’s being dubbed “Netflix for books.” Subscribers pay a monthly fee of $9.99 to gain unlimited access to an electronic library of 600,000 ebooks. There’s a 30-day free trial, so I decided to … Continue reading →

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Plotting Revisited

Posted on September 14, 2013 by thewoodlander

I’ve written about plotting before, but over the past year my thoughts on the subject have evolved, so I thought I would revisit it. When I first started writing The Woodlander, I was firmly in the “just wing it” camp. the … Continue reading →

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An International Collaboration between Authors

Posted on August 31, 2013 by thewoodlander

One of the great things about blogging is the opportunity you get to interact with lots of wonderful people from around the globe. One such person I’ve had the fortune of meeting is Anthony Lance, a fellow author residing in … Continue reading →

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Ebooks: Cheap, or Inexpensive?

Posted on August 25, 2013 by thewoodlander

One year when I was a kid, my older brother received an electric guitar for Christmas. It was one of those cheap Harmony guitars, the kind you used to find in the back of a Sears catalog. It even came … Continue reading →

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Elmore Leonard dead at 87

Posted on August 20, 2013 by thewoodlander

I don’t usually post news articles like this, but I’ll make an exception for Mr. Leonard. Fellow writers, we have lost a great one: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/books/elmore-leonard-master-of-crime-fiction-dies-at-87.html Readers of this blog know I mentioned Mr. Leonard frequently in my posts on writing. As … Continue reading →

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THE WOODLANDER | Animated Book Trailer

Posted on August 17, 2013 by thewoodlander

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks creating a trailer for my book The Woodlander. I’ve never done animation before (as if you couldn’t tell), but I did all the work myself, including the music. It was a lot of fun, but I’ll … Continue reading →

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On prologues (with excerpt from The Woodlander)

Posted on August 3, 2013 by thewoodlander

  Depending on how you look at it, there are either a lot of rules when it comes to writing, or no rules at all. While I’d like to think of myself as an outlaw, there are certain conventions I … Continue reading →

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Evolution of a Cover (with Poll!)

Posted on July 27, 2013 by thewoodlander

Now that The Woodlander is out, I thought it would be fun to look back at the different cover designs I went through, and let you vote on which one you like the best (there’s a poll at the end). … Continue reading →

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Crossing the Chasm for Self-Published Authors – Part 2 : Target Market Initiatives

Posted on July 20, 2013 by thewoodlander

In my previous post, I discussed the principles of Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm  and identified five different user categories along the product adoption curve. If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, you can do so here. Don’t worry; we’ll wait … Continue reading →

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Crossing the Chasm for Self-Published Authors – Part 1: The Chasm

Posted on July 19, 2013 by thewoodlander

This past week, I had the obligation opportunity to attend a 3-day business seminar in beautiful Salt Lake City. (Or at least I hear Salt Lake City is beautiful. I just caught a glimpse of it from the taxi window … Continue reading →

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