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The Upside and Downside of Self-Promotion

November 21, 2023

I think it should always be shameless to promote your good work. As a self-published, indie-author authorpreneur, writing is the second and most involved step of the story and the business. The second step, you might question? Of course. That’s because the first step is conceiving the idea. Human beings have thousands, if not tens of thousands of thoughts per day. Most of our thoughts are quite mundane, from “I’m hungry” to “I have to

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Book Happenings - Void Incursion Book 5 - Check and Mate Self-promotion

Sharing My Book Happenings Over the Next Two Weeks

November 14, 2023

Indie-author self-promotion is utterly necessary. As I’m writing this, I have multiple things happening in my indie-author world. This is the result of a lot of work on a lot of different levels over the past couple of months. Let’s start with the immediate, most time-sensitive element: My standalone fantasy/Steampunk, rise of the villain novel, Infamy Ascending, is FREE for Kindle this week, until 11/17. Why make it free? Because I think it’s an excellent

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The creative process can be incredibly uncertain.

Does a Blank Canvas or Page During Your Creative Process Ever Frighten You?

November 7, 2023

This is perfectly normal, and something I think all creatives encounter. I’ve never met another artist, writer, painter, woodworker, or any other type of creative who hasn’t been “blocked”, uncertain, or otherwise lost. You take a look at the blank page or screen, blank canvas, raw wood or clay, and nothing is coming. The ideas and creative juices just seem not to be flowing. It’s very distressing. For some, it goes a step further. It’s

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creatives are not in competition

Are Writers, Artists, and Creatives In Competition with One Another?

October 31, 2023

Even in a crowded market, we’re not competing with each other. In trying to learn how many authors are self-published, no search I’ve run on Google can give me a number. Between Amazon and other services making self-publishing increasingly easier, it’s safe to presume that there are thousands, if not tens of thousands of self-published, indie authors. The number I have been able to find, according to Bowker data published in February of 2023, is

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Generative AI is a new tool neither good nor evil in and of itself

How Does it Feel To Create with Generative AI Tools?

October 24, 2023

Sharing my experience using Generative AI for writing. Does AI scare you? Why wouldn’t it? Lots of fiction over the years has painted AI as the thing that will end humanity (see the Terminator and Matrix movies). Then, it inevitably raises several ethical and moral questions. Can/will AI steal copyrighted material in what’s created? Will it take away jobs – even those of artists? Will we be competing with AI for our creative identity? Scary,

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write to market

Can I Write to Market Without Being a Hack?

October 17, 2023

That depends on multiple factors. What is a hack? Stephen Pressfield, in his brilliant book The War of Art, defines a hack as someone who “condescends to the audience.” Further, the hack chooses to work not so much with what they desire to write as much as what they think they can write for money. They focus on what they think the market wants first and foremost. Does that mean that if you write to

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