Eyewall
YOUR EBOOK IS HOW MUCH!?
I was doing a little chest beating last week, talking to my brother on the phone and telling him about Eyewall’s success on Amazon.com as the “Kindle Daily Deal.” On October 11, the Seattle-based retail giant dropped the price of Eyewall’s eBook edition to 99¢ for the day. And faster than you could shout “Fire…
Read MoreYOU KNOW IT’S GOING TO BE A BAD DAY WHEN…
You know it’s going to be a bad day when… Your wife tells you you’ve got your shirt on backwards. Well, look, it was early. I wasn’t totally awake when I got dressed. And I thought it was just a high-necked tee shirt. Ironically, however, it’s turning out to be a good day. Thanks to…
Read MoreIRENE EYEING NORTH CAROLINA
Things are looking a bit better for Florida and Georgia this afternoon vis-a-vis Hurricane Irene. The same strengthening factors as mentioned in yesterday’s blog remain in play today, while at the same time the models seem to have stabilized their shifting tracks of the past few days. That means that after Irene blasts through the…
Read MoreSHERRIE, OBIE AND ROBERT FROST
The reviews I’ve received for Eyewall have been overwhelmingly positive. I few have been disparaging. But that’s okay. Everyone has different tastes in literature and everyone uses different criteria for judging books. Several reviewers commented that they found a particular scene in the book totally unbelievable and gratuitous. In the scene–SPOILER ALERT!–a female character, Sherrie,…
Read MoreIT’S NICE TO BE NUMBER ONE
It’s nice to be number one in something, even if it is in giving stuff away. Belle Bridge Books, my publisher, is running a promotional giveaway for EYEWALL. If you have a Kindle, you can download the novel from Amazon for $0.00… novels for nothin’, books for free. Better hurry, however, the promo probably won’t…
Read MoreA GLASS HALF-EMPTY GUY
At least nobody took potshots at me because I destroyed their island… in my novel. St. Simons is still here. As hot and humid as ever, but still beautiful. I think. It’s sometimes hard to tell thanks to periodic incursions of hazy smoke from distant wildfires in Pogo-Land. But back to the business at hand.…
Read MoreTHANKS FOR ASKING
“So how are your book sales going?” It’s a question I get asked a lot these days. I guess it kind of replaces, “So how ya doin’?” And even though I can’t answer the question about book sales because I don’t really know (see below), I don’t mind the question. At least it tells me…
Read MoreCoolest golf shirt ever!
Okay, the shirt–I actually had four of them embroidered: two for me, one for my brother and one for my grandson–is not the most cost-effective way to promote a book, but I thought it would be kind of a fun to wear a shirt proclaiming I’m a novelist. Yeah, I know. It’s an ego trip,…
Read MoreFearless Peerless
I sat with George Scott in his brand new facility on a rainy Tuesday this week and wondered aloud what possessed a man to open a book store while so many others are going the way of eight-track stereo players. Independents are shuttering their doors left and right, Borders is in Chapter 11, and Barnes…
Read MoreA mock-up for the cover of EYEWALL
What you see on the right is a mock-up for the cover of EYEWALL. The final cover, which won’t be ready until the end of the month, may be, according to my editor, “very different from this one.” But, she said, “the general look and themes will be similar.” There are some things I think should be changed, and BelleBooks,…
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