Okay, the corrections have been made to the converted file for The Nostalgia Gambit . Now I need to finish evaluating the copyeditor's c...

Final edits are done, the ISBN has been assigned, the cover is complete, and I have sent it off for conversion. Now to get going on King of ...

The manuscript is still at the proof reader's but it's due at the conversion house next week. It usually takes them anywhere from fo...

I finished editing The Nostalgia Gambit , based on the marked-up copy provided by my copyeditor. I'm pretty happy with the way it came o...

I just got the marked up manuscript for The Nostalgia Gambit back from my copyeditor. Now I have to go through the pages and either make th...

Below is the cover* of one of my two upcoming novels. One of the nice things about self-publishing is, the writer gets to pick the cover art...

The old saying goes that it's the squeaky wheel that gets the oil. My last post was about how only a few people take the trouble to post...

There has a been a huge kerfuffle on the web lately about online book reviews. The New York Times had a story about a man who created a pay...

Sunday was my birthday, and I got a wonderful present when the SFBook Review site (a very helpful, well-organized site if you like fantasy ...

I just checked Barnes & Noble, and The Sixth Discipline is now free in the Nook store! That means Nook came in second to iBooks in the ...

I have been checking the Smashwords retail platforms every day, to see if The Sixth Discipline was free yet. I made that book free on Smash...

Smashwords has updated their Apple sales figures. For the first time, my US iBooks sales beat my Commonwealth (Canadian, UK, and Australia...

I've blogged before about international sales. Of course, language is an issue. To some extent, iBooks has an edge over Kindle in terms...

On this latest round of giveaways of Shades of Empire , I had the usual amount of takers in the UK, and another small handful in Germany, bu...

Actually, I don't know if they were ever gone;  I think Diesel simply changed their search syntax as far as author names. When I searche...

My first sales from Blio (online store with ebooks distributed by Baker & Taylor) came in! That means Smashwords now has another retai...

I get email from Amazon on a regular basis, both as an author and as a customer. But recently I got email from the UK version of Amazon reco...

I have been checking the various retail outlets, and the price change to make Tribes and No Safe Haven $2.99 again is in place in the   Kin...

Both Shades of Empire and Where Magic Rules have been delivered to the conversion house. In a week or two I should have the files back for...

Most of my fiction is far-future science fiction that takes place in imagined worlds. Sometime in May I hope to publish a true space opera....