Final day for the 99c deal on Come the Shadows

Just a quick post in reminder that today is the last day to get Come the Shadows for 99 cents! Kindle – Come the Shadows Nook – Come the Shadows Smashwords – Come the Shadows The short story One Final Night (which now has a few more 5-stars on Amazon!) will remain free.

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Had to happen eventually

My worst fear was that when I published I would wake up one day and be inundated with 1-star reviews declaring me the William Hung of self-publishers. As yet, it hasn’t happened. But I did receive my first 1-star review yesterday, on the short story One Final Night (which has now been downloaded 23k+ times). [...]

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Time to go old school

I wrote Come the Shadows without any form of outlining. I knew the answer to whodunit (which, coincidentally, changed) and that’s about it. It was based on a script I wrote 3 years ago, which provided about 5% of the content of the book. The rest I wrote very organically, step by step, day by [...]

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Wendy @ Wall-to-Wall Books reviews One Final Night

Wendy, who recently reviewed Come the Shadows, has read and reviewed One Final Night on her blog. She doesn’t normally touch short stories but liked the book enough to give this one a chance. Result? She liked it even more than the book and says (I hope she doesn’t mind me quoting her email.) “skip [...]

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The spiral notebook: closest ally, biggest enemy

I write in a spiral notebook. It’s my greatest strength and my greatest weakness. It feeds my creativity and my terror all at once. When I’m writing I’m ‘in the zone’ and I don’t think about anything but the next step or even the next curve of an ‘a’. I just let the ideas flow [...]

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You’ve probably never heard of these things

I have a tendency to adore things that most people don’t know exist. Movies: Vibes Who’s that Girl TV Shows: The Goode Family Better Off Ted Musicians: Curtis Stigers Billy Falcon Junior Brown And then there’s a very specific pair of flip-flops Wal-Mart carried when I was in college: for one year. I still have [...]

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Almost 13,000 – and counting

12749 people have downloaded One Final Night from Amazon, and a few of them have even taken the time to give (very nice) reviews. I know it’s a drop in the bucket, and some people actually sell that many copies of something in the same amount of time but it’s really gratifying simply to have [...]

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Open to the possibilities

I posted this weekend that I was reducing the price of Come the Shadows for this weekend only. Well…I changed my mind. “One Final Night” is now #18 out of all free downloads for Amazon Kindle (and doubled in rank at Barnes & Noble). I’m overjoyed to see that! In addition, it has garnered several [...]

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This Weekend Only: Come the Shadows is 99c

After Amazon finally listened and made my short story One Final Night free (totally KO’ing my planned REPORT ME PLEASE post), I decided to drop my book in price for this weekend only. So for 99c you can it up for both Kindle and Nook for the next 48 hours. Kindle Link Nook Link Monday [...]

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To Blog, or To Write

Some aspects of my life don’t lend to choices. I have to take care of myself, my marriage, my son, and my job. Most of that’s enjoyable. But when it comes to other things there are choices. Such as…. Write? or Blog? For most of the time I was writing my first book I chose [...]

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