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So the book cover art is from one of many stock image sites, one subscribed to by the person who designs the covers for me. She has me pick out something that works from the royalty-free collection and then edits it as needed – I’m not making any money at this, so I can’t really…

This was one of those weeks where my real job required very long work days, and didn’t leave me with evening or early morning hours to write. I’m usually fairly disciplined about making time, but sometimes it just can’t happen. Plus, although some people at work would mistake me for an extrovert when I’m having…

Although my first book was set in the Pacific Northwest, books two and three are both set on the East coast. I do look up information about the places my characters are in fairly frequently, along with products they might buy, businesses they might work in, etc. Sadly, despite what the search engine thinks, I…

I have only told a handful of people about the book at this point, but it’s definitely a strange thing to just drop on someone. “Hey, I never mentioned it, but this summer I wrote a book, and here it is.” For what it’s worth – part of the reason I didn’t talk about it…

I put links on the books page…

I had decided to publish the first book this week – I have always wanted the books to come out within a few months of each other, and I think this fits the pipeline speed that I have right now. The second book is with a beta reader and the third book is at 13,000…

We are back from the beach, where I started book three, but didn’t make too much progress. It was very hard to work without sleep, and it was very hard to sleep there. I also had some things I needed to do today, so there wasn’t a ton of time. But I did get the…

I’ve mentioned before that the blog timestamp and my actual time do not match, but they are within about a day of each other. So I’m writing this on July 29th. Today we put up two Christmas trees, in honor of an upcoming release of Amazon’s Rings of Power. We’re watching the Hobbit movies (it…

As already noted on this blog, this was my first book. Not the first book I ever considered publishing – the first book I ever wrote. I’d written short-form fiction in the past, and I write boring things at work all the time. But nothing as ambitious as an entire book. Written in a month.…

I started this blog about the same time as I started the first book, and it’s title as of the time I’m writing this is still “Pretentious Self Published Author Blog” with a subtitle “please don’t read my blog yet.” As you might imagine, this means that I am not really trying to get visitors,…