This post takes a deep dive into how Amazon’s search engine works. We’ll touch on information-theory concepts, and aim to use as little technical jargon as possible. If it’s all a bit much, skip to the end to read the summary of takeaways to help you choose and optimize keywords for your book. Note: ‘keyword’ […]
Read More How Amazon Search Really WorksWorth considering. By their standards, I’m a slow writer! I first blogged about the plight of slow writers back in 2014, at the height of the indie publishing boom. All the indie superstar gurus were telling writers to grind out ebooks as fast as they could type to take advantage of the “Kindle Gold Rush”. […]
Read More Are Slow Writers Doomed to Fail in the Digital Age?Check it out! Showdown was featured as one of the New Releases on the fantastic GoIndieNow! vlog! Lots of other great stuff featured as well; I was pleased to participate in Andy Peloquin’s takeover for the release of Gateway to the Past just this past weekend. The new releases for books start at about 22:30 in […]
Read More Go Indie Now! New ReleasesAmazon is the most powerful online retailer in the world. Although books are just part of their business model, they dominant the literary sector. Around 70% of e-book sales in the United States happen on Amazon.com. Every title in the store has a “Best Sellers Rank” (also called Sales Rank) reflecting how well it’s selling relative to the […]
Read More An Experiment in Amazon Sales RankI was on the Pagan Musings Podcast last night to talk about my new book, publishing, and how socialization isn’t the devil. If you want to listen, the link is here. They also played a couple of my songs, and provided handy links where you can find all the projects, articles, and websites we talked […]
Read More Pagan Musings Podcast and Indie Authors CareThe following is an excerpt from my newly-released novelette “Showdown”. Graeme has just seen a person killed for the first time: Before he knew he was going to speak, he heard himself say, “I reckon that’s far enough.” Some small part of him wondered at how calm and flat his own voice sounded in his […]
Read More To Celebrate My Release Day . . . An ExcerptSo I’ve been kicking around this idea for a steampunk/magicpunk series for a few years (since 2012, it turns out). I was intending to sell a couple of stories to some magazines to build interest, then publish a book that was a collection of short stories. But instead I’ve been collecting rejection slips, and those […]
Read More So I’m Writing a Magicpunk Kindle Serial
