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There’s a stigma to self-publishing, and we all know it. Why? Because, in the past, self-published books have sucked. A lot of self-published work today sucks. And when I use that word, it’s a technical term. Face it, most self-published books are a pig-in-a-poke. Looks good, but you can’t be sure. If it’s a physical […]

One of the things that keeps being bruited about in this discussion over digital books and pricing is a question of how much digital books really cost. The base cost of a book, of course, determines its final price. Repeatedly people have come out and said that the production costs of an ebook is fairly […]

The latest issue of The Secrets newsletter is up and available for subscribers. In this issue I go through all the parameters of how to create a likable character—someone the readers warm to fairly quickly and consistently. It’s one of the toughest things to do in fiction, and writers always run the risk of becoming […]

Tomorrow, Saturday, January 30th, at 6 Eastern/3 Pacific, I’ll be reading the first three chapters from my new book At The Queen’s Command. This is your chance to get a preview of this new novel. The reading will be conducted via Second Life. Second Life is a graphics based chat software suite that includes VOIP. […]

One of the cool things about the Internet is that I get to hear from a lot of folks—here in comments, on Facebook, and on Twitter. If you’re on either of those services, feel free to add me as a friend and/or follow me. (On Twitter I tend to post a bunch of links to […]