How You Can Help Indie Authors

Here’s a question I’ve been asked a few times in the past month: “Where should I buy your book so that you get the highest royalty possible?” The people asking were new readers who were looking to support my work and my life as much as they possibly could. It’s a lovely... 
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The Joy of Research

I’m starting to do research for the third book in the Matthew and Epp series. Technically I research things constantly in a “Look at that guy! Could I use that guy in a story? Did you hear that noise? Maybe I could use that noise somewhere!” sort of way. But recently I’ve started... 
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Results From the PARPG Play Test

So @Rolling20s and I were finally able to discuss his visit to SCARAB two weekends ago as well as the results of his play tests of the Probability Angels RPG. As I mentioned last week, the whole concept of attending smaller, regional conventions was scrapped. @Rolling20s ended up leaving the convention... 
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Looking Forward

I was hoping to discuss how the most recent convention/play test/Probability Angels RPG marketing thing went, but it’s getting late and @Rolling20s is still on the road and I won’t be getting a full debriefing in time to write this. Chalk that up to poor time management on my part. I forgot... 
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Convention Number Two

Your foot taps nervously on the ice, a light crunch sounding from the ever-present frost sucking onto the floor of the Fortress of Solitude. You’ve spent the last three months of your afterlife inside of this iceberg, but you still haven’t gotten used to it and the cold air molests the back... 
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The $.99 Price Point in Publishing

There have been a lot of articles recently, and not so recently, about how much e-books should cost. Obviously this will always be up for debate, but over the course of last year somehow Kindle self-publishers landed at $.99 as the correct answer for now. Why $.99? Well for starters that’s the... 
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