Hard at Work

Hello everyone. I know I've been MIA once again, but rest assure I've been working my tail off.

The *new day job has been keeping me quite busy in all the un-fun, non-writerly ways that day jobs do. But I'm not giving up on writing. I'm working on the second book in my Perpetual Creatures series, titled Beauty & Power, and will be sending it off to the editor real soon. I hope to have it out around the first of the year, then I'll start writing book 3.

I would love to be able to pump out a new book every three months, but to do that I'd have to write by day and do all the editing/marketing at night. I'm not quite there yet. I still need the day job to keep the wolves away. That being said, I'm shooting to have book 3 out sometime late spring/early summer.

We'll see how that works out.

In the mean time, I'm running another Kindle Countdown Promotion for my short story collection Contemplations of Dinner. It'll be on sale for $0.99 from now until December 21st. Have at it, and don't forget to spread the word.

Thanks.



*I've been there almost a year, so "new" is a relative term.

Four Short Stories

I have published four of the short stories from my collection Contemplations of Dinner as singles.  You can purchase them for $0.99 each or get Contemplations of Dinner for $2.99.  I did this to widen my virtual shelf space and to cater to those who would rather read a short story than a whole novel.  If you're so inclined, to check them out.

 Beauty Needs A Hunter

 The Mask of Deslow Mansion

My Patient Grave

Romeo's Kiss

Better Late Than Never

This is more than a bit late, but I want to announce that my novel Predatory Animals is free until midnight PST.  You can find it here.  Feel free to grab a copy, "Like" the page, and once you read it leave an honest review.

This is the last of my free days from Amazon KDP Select.  I've enrolled my other books in Select before and I didn't see the huge uptick in sales like others have.  I weighed whether or not to enroll Predatory Animals.  I hadn't sold a single copy on Barnes & Noble, Kobo or Smashwords, so I figured what the heck.  This time around I decided to do it not for the prospect of increased sales, but more for the opportunity to land some reviews and increase the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" section.

Lofty goal, I know.

Funny enough, this time around I have noticed increased sales.  Not the crazy numbers of some other writers, but enough to make me smile a bit.

I've also been in the process of splitting up the stories in my collection Contemplations of Dinner into stand alone shorts, while submitting them to the Kindle Singles Program.  The first two out are The Mask of Deslow Mansion and Romeo's Kiss.  You can get both for $0.99 each or get all ten shorts in Contemplations of Dinner for $2.99.

This along with my normal writing, working three jobs, chasing two kids, doing damage control for two dogs and trying to fit in some sleep has left me a bit frazzled.  And now it's snowing and schools have already been delayed tomorrow.

These are the salad days.