One of the hardest things I have to do as an author is hold back on announcing the new shiny. Being excited about a set of manuscripts you’ve been sitting on for the better part of a year and having to keep it to yourself is torture. Therefore it is with effervescent pleasure that I[…]
At long last, Book Three in my Mage Song series is here! Awakener is available on fine ebook retailers everywhere (Amazon, iTunes, Kobo, Smashwords), and will shortly be available in paperback. Here’s the blurb and first chapter: Magic fades. Darkness rises. Darion Ulther and his family have carved out a simple life for themselves in[…]
Thank you. Just… thank you. To the thousands (yes, that’s thousands, plural, and I’m still in disbelief) of readers who have picked up one or more of my books. This month, for the first time ever, it has become unwieldy to count my exact unit sales. Suffice it to say my writing income has tripled[…]
Children of the Wastes, Book Two in the Aionach Saga, won’t be out for a few months yet. Nevertheless, it’s time to officially reveal the cover. I had this amazing piece of artwork commissioned at around the same time as the cover for book one in the series. The artist, Peter Ortiz, has done covers[…]
It’s been a busy month around here. Lots of writing and book cover design happening. But before we get into that, let’s talk numbers. In August, I had the highest sales of any month so far where I didn’t release a new book or do any advertising whatsoever. I had an 8% read-through rate on[…]
Lots of things going on in my secret little world around here. I’m working on four books (yes, four) at once. Driftmetal III is going through its final round of edits. Meanwhile, I’m already writing the next in the series, Driftmetal IV, as well as the (much longer) second book in the Aionach Saga, Children[…]
Today is the day – the new cover I’ve had commissioned for The Infernal Lands, Book One of the Aionach Saga, goes live today. I’ll be delving into the process behind its creation in a future post, but for now I think it’s enough just to behold the magnificence of the piece itself, created by[…]
Thanks to the miracle of CreateSpace, the print edition of The Infernal Lands is now available! Holding that first proof copy in my hands was really something else, an experience I won’t soon forget – especially since I had no plans to ever release any of my books in print before I came across CreateSpace.[…]
Not much new to report, except that Driftmetal has been bouncing around in the Top 10 of both the Steampunk and Cyberpunk categories ever since it reached the #1 spot in Steampunk a couple of weeks ago. It’s been seeing steady download numbers since the post-promotion plummet, with a higher average than before as positive[…]
To date, I’ve designed the covers for all of my books. Being a graphic designer by trade has been a helpful perk, and it’s saved me a lot of time and money in getting started. So I venture into the realm of cover design not because I think my covers look bad, but because I’m[…]