ONE WEEK LEFT!

Hey everyone!As most of you know already I am offering my book for free through the Story Cartel website. It has been up there for 14 days already and today begins your last week to get it. You can download it for free by going here: http://www.storycartel.com/books/the-trials-of-the-core Now, the cool thing about Story Cartel is …

Trials of the Core FREE through Story Cartel!

Okay, so in an effort to get more publicity and reviews out for my book, The Trials of the Core, I have decided to undertake a marketing effort that I haven’t heard about at all. It’s called Story Cartel! I found it through BookBaby (which is what I use to publish my ebooks). Anyways, this …

Supporting an Author

Hey everyone, It is Christmas time. That means a bunch of things. It means, if you're in college, you are on Winter Break currently and just got done with finals. (Congratulations I hope it went well for you). At any age it means celebrating time off with the family. In Wisconsin and the Midwest it …

An International Review

Hey everyone, So, more good news. Another review came in this one was from a, Nadia Batista, who lives in Portugal and has read my book. She gave it a ★★★★ 4 Star review on Goodreads. That is awesome on so many different levels. Hopefully it starts picking up some international steam now. That would …

A Delayed December Launch

Hey everyone, Alright so this is the saddest thing in the world to announce (at least for me) but I have been promoting my official book launch for December 10th, for forever now it seems. And alas, I do not believe it is going to happen (unless a miracle happens). In truth, I am not …

Why I Can Never Compete in NanoWrimo…

Okay, this is a personal confession, although I am an author I have never competed in NanoWrimo. For those of you who do not know what this is it is New Novel November Month. Pretty much you write an entire novel in one month. I know, as an author, I feel ashamed for admitting the …

Review #3

And the positive reviews continue to roll in. Here is what Betsy Harrison said about my novel on Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/730582546. Otherwise here it is below! "The Guardian of The Core is reaching the close to his 200 year term as Guardian and must seek out a replacement. Letters arrive at different places to assemble the …

Revealing my Story

Revealing my StoryHi everyone!So, like I mentioned in previous blog posts a book called "The Trials of the Core" (book #1 in a series called, Guardian of the Core) is going to be published this December by Writer's Block Press. We are doing a slow reveal of the book online. Click the link/url above and follow …

Building Readership

Although this post will not be anything novel and original, I do want to reiterate this because it is something that I am doing currently through my pre-marketing strategies (which if you've read my other posts should be around 3 - 4 months prior to your books release). The strategy? Well, its releasing your novel …

Putting Together the Plan

Alright, it's been a while, but like I said, I've been busy with my own deadlines to meet. We talked last time about building a plan for your book and how it should have a marketing scheme set up 2-4 months prior. Also, I mentioned that this timetable (the one I gave in the blog …