When I decided to self-publish The Insistence of Memory four years ago, I knew nothing about publishing and just wanted my story in the hands of readers. Since then, I’ve learned quite a bit about publishing… including the fact that some early missteps have tied my books to Amazon alone, making it impossible to use …
The story settings in The Insistence of Memory are fictional. Though, I did have some real-life geography in mind when writing the book. Namely, the city where I grew up: Ashtabula, Ohio. That setting choice had less to do with events in my own past and more to do with it having the right elements …
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 …
