Not too long ago a writer friend of mine emailed asking me what kind of marketing and promotion I do for my ebooks. Apparently his own ebooks weren’t selling very well at all. This happens, of course, but the majority of his books are published by “real” publishers and yet his ebooks barely make up [...]
Bill Nelson reviews The Dishonored Dead and interviews me at his website We Zombie! Here’s the first paragraph of the review: What happens when you reverse the roles of humans and zombies, add an upside down government along with mother earth’s hidden energy? You get a remarkably inventive, fresh story line with a plot that [...]
Bob Thurber — whose story “Shipwrecked” was a reader favorite in the Hint Fiction anthology — has a new novel out and I asked him a few questions about it. RS: So what is Paperboy: A Dysfunctional Novel about (and how does the “dysfunctional” play in)? BT: Paperboy is an odd little book, dysfunctional in [...]
Thriller writer and Hint Fiction contributor Blake Crouch is one of those doing quite well in self-publishing his e-books. He co-authored Serial and Draculas with Joe Konrath (as well as F. Paul Wilson and Jeff Strand), and has released his thrillers Desert Places and Locked Doors (which were originally published by St. Martin’s Press) as [...]
Back in December I did this post about Grand Mal Press, basically advising writers to stay away from this new publisher for a variety of reasons. I’d been hesitant at the time on whether or not to actually include the publisher’s name. In the end I included it, and I’m glad I did, because just last week I received [...]
The Hint Fiction event at McNally Jackson last Wednesday night was a blast. I almost didn’t make it in time, though. Let me explain. My wife and I arrived in New York the night before. We stayed at The New Yorker Hotel, which, thankfully, was bedbug free. The view, however, was not ideal. The next [...]
