i’m an amazon best seller

With the publication of my first story, The Masq, my meteoric rise to the top has been nothing if not educational. Well, maybe that’s all it’s been. Bestseller lists have received their fair share of criticism, and I’ve now seen firsthand how these...

the masq (short story)

As mentioned in the previous post, I’ve decided to start selling stories on Amazon. Amazon has an interesting system in place. They’ll pay 70% if you price your book between $2.99 and $9.99, but everything priced outside those parameters will only reel in...

testing the indie waters

As I work on slicing and dicing 30,000 words from one novel, edit the first draft another novel, consider changing tense in my very first novel, and continue writing and submitting short stories to an ever-expanding list of periodicals, I figured why not dip my toe in...

pseudonym conundrum

Perhaps conundrum is an overstatement. Especially given I know which way I’m leaning. It’s also not a pressing concern, considering I’m only done the first draft. And I might rewrite the entire thing in first person. (At least it’s only 75k...