I'm fond of soft launches, so it's likely that some of you will know this already, but The Nameless Knight has been released! It's now available on Amazon, and will be available soon on Barnes and Noble, iBooks, Kobo Books, and a bunch more through Smashwords'...
As you may know, I'm sometimes a web developer as well as being a writer/swordfighter. Being a dev means knowing all kinds of random stuff about what makes the Internet tick, and incidentally, it also lets me understand a few things about ebooks. Ebooks can track the...
So... I've been debating Kindle Unlimited, and my biggest concern is whether it's useful to readers. There's already been a million words spilled on whether it's good for authors, which is... neither here nor there, as my mother would say. The strength of it really...
I've been following the Amazon vs. Hachette dispute with interest, mostly for the entertainment value. I don't have much time to write on it myself, unfortunately, but one thing has finally prompted me to say something: the fact that Doug Preston, Authors United, and...
So here's the deal, for all of you authors who are wondering what's going on. Yes, all two of you. The Kernel wrote an editorial about how - SHOCK, HORROR - there is porn on the internet. More specifically, there's porn on Amazon and Kobo, in the form of ebooks. I am...
With the merger of Penguin and Random House, we now have Random Penguin, a mega-corp that represents about half of the traditional publishing industry. The question now is where do they go from here? How do they, and the other four big publishers, take control back...
Much has been made of a new service called Cunable. Here's their description, in their own words: Calling it self-retailing, Cunable allows all authors, those with or without an existing publishing relationship, to sell from their personal websites. By removing the...
It's been quite a while since I got started on the concept of this, but the WordPress plugin I've posted about before is now ready and available for download. I created this to combat three problems: Many authors use things like the Amazon Affiliate widget to display...
I've written before on the problem of adblockers taking out Amazon listings. In a nutshell, Firefox and Chrome's most popular addons are adblockers, which strip annoying ads out of webpages as they load up. They unfortunately take out Amazon's book affiliate widget...
The brouhaha over Amazon and the larger publishers setting the price of ebooks has become rather deafening lately. Doom and gloom all around; writers lamenting the death of traditional publishing; the impending Apocalypse. You'd think that everyone has stopped buying...
It's a funny thing, criticism. Sometimes it's needed, but most of the time it's just another way to let the author know that their work has fallen short in the eyes of one single person. It's a true shame that so many authors take it so seriously. Criticism is the...