So, in my last post we talked about how a lot of authors (myself included, briefly, when I started doing this full time about a decade back) have relied too much on only one source for their income over the years. And consequently, when that income source is threatened or dissolves in the fashion [...]
Over at Robert J. Sawyer’s blog he muses about the future of full-time novelists. The comment section is filled with pessimistic anecdotes about the writing life and how hundreds of working writers will inevitably fade away when the world no longer buys books, or some such thing. Coupled with recent announcements like the [...]
There’s nothing quite like it. That feeling of walking into the bookstore and seeing your name on the cover of a new release sitting there on the shelf. It’s pretty damn magical, if I do say so myself.
But there’s also nothing quite like the feeling you get when, after waiting for weeks, sometimes [...]
Announcing a brand new ebook of four thrilling tales from Jon F. Merz and Joseph Nassise…
4 for FRIDAY
Four tales – 20,000 words of pure adrenalized mayhem – available only for an extremely short time: FRIDAY for the incredibly amazing price of just $2.50
Available in any ebook format (pdf, epub, mobi, ltf) 4 for FRIDAY ships [...]
So, I’m selling ebooks on Amazon’s Kindle. I’m hardly the only author doing this right now – whether it’s traditionally published or “indie” – but I am experiencing far fewer sales than a lot of other folks, and frankly, I have no idea why. The short of it is my stuff simply isn’t [...]
I’ll be uploading a few new things to the Amazon Kindle store over the next week or so.
First off, NINJA – the novella written in the vein as Robert E. Howard’s Conan, will be up (I hope) today. I’ll update this post as soon as it goes live. This is the first in [...]
So a whole slew of my work just went live in the App Store for iPhones & iPads. Here’s the list, which you can go grab at your leisure…just click on the title and you’ll be whisked away to the goodness that is Apple.
NINJA
In the style of Robert E. Howard, NINJA tells the story [...]
I’m happy to announce that artist Rob Moran of Voodoo Vision Studios has been hired to handle pencils on THE FIXER graphic novel due out in October. Rob did up a quick promo piece at the left featuring a few key elements from part 1 of the story arc. Artist Brian McCullough is [...]
So today marks the first day we’re live with the brand new website design (now using a Wordpress theme instead of Joomla) courtesy of my amazing web design guru Nick Abbondandolo & his company DISSIM.com Based in Los Angeles, they do some terrific work and I can’t recommend him highly enough. We’ve still [...]
So there are a lot of things afoot (as usual) and I wanted to let you know about them and ask for some input as well…
First of all, the website is being redesigned (again) and moved from the Joomla platform over to a Wordpress platform, because I need more flexibility with the design. Expect [...]
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