February 2016

by

Authors, if you are ever close to titling a book* this way: ‘The Magnificent Spammer: the Spam Chronicles, Book Whatever’ You might want to rethink that colon and everything after it. While that title format was fashionable for a while, and self-pub gurus were claiming it could help with SEO and finding books in a…

Read More Trends in titles
by

What I like about Spring: perfect weather, spring cleaning (both physical and mental), taking self-publishing workshops, finishing new art, plotting out new books, and finding new authors and art galleries to follow. What I don’t like: knowing that summer temperatures will be hitting early this year, spring cleaning, doing a cost analysis on what I…

Read More Spring Things
by

It hit 90F in Phoenix this week. I had a box of artwork in the back of my car that I had to offload, or the contents might suffer in the heat. I drove home from work with that box almost a comfortable presence sitting unseen at my back: until I took it inside the…

Read More Old friends, new roads
Aside

Adrift in the typhoon’s eye,

Stalled on the cliff’s edge,

I craft lists of aides I cannot deploy

Until the wind swells

Strong enough

To lift my wings again.

by

Vamp and Tramp Booksellers, my art representatives in Alabama, have just uploaded some more pieces of my book art sculpture onto their website. None are quite new, but they are cool pieces in a variety of materials from paper collage to embroidered and beaded fabric. Link here.

Read More New book art for sale
by

Well, this has been a good launch day: Maestro seemed to have hit the ground running, thanks to some very good marketing by NineStar, at least two great reviews, and some fans coming out of the woodwork. I have fans. Wow, folks, thank you so very, very much! Kristin at GayBook Reviews pretty much distilled down…

Read More Maestro news, Day 1
by

Shameless promo ahead. I know a small jewelry findings supply company that has impressed me with its quality and service. I wasn’t aware they made this YouTube ad for a sale yesterday, and I hope they’ll continue the sale for a day or two. At any rate, Plazko.com is a good little company, and their…

Read More A Not-A-Super B**l Commercial