Reflections on My First Year of Self-Publishing

If I remember correctly, yesterday was the one-year anniversary of my career as a novelist.  (Or, more specifically, when I put my first novel on sale.) It's hard to believe how fast time flies and how quickly things have changed - all...

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My Passive Income Earnings from Online Articles

Update (Aug. 24, 2014): Squidoo is shutting down! Roughly a week ago Squidoo's founder released a statement that the site is going the way of the dodo and will be selling it's content to rival HubPages. It's not a huge surprise if you were familiar with some of the things that were going on there (such as what's noted in my previous blog post), but...

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Warden (Book 3) Cover Reveal

Up until now, probably the first indication that I was anywhere near finishing a work-in-progress would be the message to my email list that I had just published something new.  And with each publication, I would generally declare that...

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A Thinning of the Herd in Indie Publishing?

Per Wikipedia, there were over 1800 automobile manufacturers in the U.S. from 1896-1930. Over  a 34-year period, that averages out to almost 53 new car manufacturers a year - over one a week!Needless to say, that's far too many, especially...

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