We were in Baltimore, to visit my favorite museum (AVAM) and check out a Harry Potter convention, when I showed my friend, Jen Pool, some pictures I was thinking of using on my author bio for The Insistence of Memory. I had taken them myself with the self-timer feature on my camera, because I hate […]
Here we go! My first novel — The Insistence of Memory — is now on sale! I’m alternating between excitement: “Yay! People can now read my book!” 😁 And terror: “Ack! People can now read my book!” 😱 Enough about me… on to the novel…. It’s always hard to know how much to share about
When it comes to user-friendly instructions, there seems to be an inverse correlation where the chance of finding a useful answer to an unexpected problem seems to decrease in direct proportion to the increased simplification of the instructions. In other words, the instructions are simple to follow right up to the moment when something goes
Kyle and Lisa sat on the weathered bench, paper coffee cups in hand, looking out over the small lake. They were silent and it wasn’t a comfortable silence. It was the kind of brittle quiet that strains the air until it threatens to crack like glass. It was bad, this quiet. As Lisa had known
Preparing to self-publish a book includes a lot of decisions, including what formats will be available. The easiest choice is to publish an e-book, but there are also several options for print-on-demand physical books. Each format (e-book or physical) has its own requirements for formatting, as well as its own publishing terms, royalty payments, and
