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Yesterday I mentioned two things in my discussion of royalty statements that I wanted to talk a bit more about today. One was returns: Returns are a crucial part of the current book publishing model; and are one of the reasons it’s collapsing in on itself. Back during the Great Depression, book publishers started making […]

Usually when an envelope arrives from your publisher during royalty time, it’s a happy event. This time, not so much. A quick glance at the statements revealed that Bantam Spectra chose, during the second half of 2010, to let my Star Wars™ X-wing novels go out of print. Getting the news that such a decision […]

Amazon released the news that, in the fourth quarter, ebook sales outstripped paperback sales. There are a couple of significant points in the story that need exploring, because they indicate how the business will shake out. I’ll do the analysis without much math, and I fully admit that I have a gross bias here. While […]

I get asked a lot of questions about e-books and e-book readers. There seems to be a lot of confusion about the different devices and what buying one will allow people to do. Depending upon which device you’re looking at, these can be very expensive gadgets. The following is an attempt to clarify what one […]

In between cleaning and baking for Thanksgiving, I managed to finish off and upload The Fiddleback Trilogy Omnibus to my webstore. The Omnibus contains all three of the novels that I wrote for Game Designer’s Workshop back in the early 90s. Individually they sell for $5 as ebooks, but I’ve collected the three of them […]

(Because I am buried working on Of Limited Loyalty, the sequel to At The Queen’s Command, I don’t have as much time to blog as I might like. Fortunately enough, I have a guest blogger who is willing to provide you insights about the world from a decidedly and distinctly unique point of view. He’s […]

For your reading pleasure, here is Chapter Three of the Digital Original novel, In Hero Years… I’m Dead. Chapter Three Her lips curled into a snarl. “You’re a bastard.” “Not me.” I pulled my bandana down. Blood. Great. “My parents were married.” Fury flashed through her green eyes. So like her mother. She went to […]