A Penile Implant Unrelated to Spam
I think “The Italian Job”–right now free–was the first Nick Earls short story I’d ever read. And I did so as his publisher. I hadn’t been able to read much of Nick’s short work. I’m in America, and...
View ArticleSoliloquies (Free)
This week’s free poetry collection celebrating National Poetry Month is Soliloquies & other poems. As I note within the text following the title poem, I got the phrase “I am but a poor player”...
View ArticleThings I’m Learning From Free
This past weekend, my novel Meets Girl was free at Amazon. I shared a link on Facebook and tweeted about it late last night, and in both posts I’d mentioned I’d previously forgotten to, but that was...
View ArticleTwo Big Factors That Enhance Kindle Select Free Promotions
The other day, I talked a bit about my experiences using KDP Select as both an author and a publisher. I noted that I didn’t think timing made much difference and noted some things that hadn’t caught...
View ArticleHow to Make Free Downloads into Sales
When the free promotion for The Prodigal Hour translated to decent sales, I was impressed. Enough that I started to consider free promotions more strategically with the desire to use them both better...
View Article“It Doesn’t Appear to Be Available for Kindle, Sadly.”
It’s amazing how much a simple sentence can change. Nine words. Nine simple words. How much and what it has changed . . . well, those things remain to be seen. But they’re the words that made me a...
View ArticleIs Kindle the Best New Market for Short Stories?
Over the past week, I’ve quietly updated two Exciting Press titles, my short stories “Blues’n How to Play’em” and “A Song for Bedtime,” the latter of which began its life as “Struck by the Light of the...
View ArticleBlog Block
So there went three months. Funny thing: I never stop writing. Haven’t stopped now. Been busy. Since April, Exciting Press has published like a dozen titles. Some mine, most not. And that’s on top of...
View ArticleThe True Cost of Independent Publishing (and How to Do It Free)
When publishing is a button, pretty much the only thing you really need to buy for access to that button is a computer, and chances are you don’t even really need a great one at that. I published my...
View ArticleStar Wars, The Dark Knight, and the Myth of the Hero
A few weeks ago, my soon-to-be wife and I went out to a local mall to catch the final installment in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises. I’d mostly looked forward to the...
View ArticleA Different Indie Success Story, or: Exciting Press By (and Beyond) the Numbers
I started this post as another press release in the same style and tone as the ones announcing when Exciting Press has signed authors, but I realized as I wrote it that it required a different...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Poetry
Today–the last day of National Poetry Month–is the final day you’ll be able to get my poetry collection Bite Your Lip & other poems free at Amazon for Kindle–whether that Kindle is your Paperwhite...
View ArticleThe One True Way of Indie Publishing
First: apologies for the headline. It’s totally a grab for attention. If you want to bail now knowing I was attempting deliberate manipulation, no one would hold it against you, but before you go,...
View ArticleWhy You Don’t Need an ISBN (And What You Should Invest In Instead)
Lately, I’ve been trying to focus my energies less on discussing disadvantages of the corporate system and more on taking fuller advantage of being independent. I’ve been focusing a lot on Exciting...
View ArticleDoing Business As
Former USC classmate and fellow indie author Danny Gardina–author of the novel The Last Night and the collection The Lookout and Other Stories and founder of Kings Men Press–wrote in with a question...
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Why Exciting Press Is Moving Away from Kindle Select (but not necessarily free)
Today begins the final free promotion ever of my time travel novel The Prodigal Hour. This week, you can get it free from Amazon for its Kindle platform (which you can read on anything–iPhone, iPad,...
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That Bookshelf Feeling
Just two days after I wrote about how KDP Select and free promotions seemed to be less effective than they used to be, my novel The Prodigal Hour became the #1 free bestseller on Amazon.com. Now, I’m...
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Giving Up Bookstores
I grew up in a small suburb of New Jersey I left in 1996 to attend college in Jersey City, where I stayed after I graduated while working in Manhattan. I left Manhattan at the end of 2001 to move back...
View ArticleHybrid Publishing
Via The Passive Voice, which focuses on interesting articles related to publishing, I just saw this one, at Kirkus, in which Bob Mayer argues that to “self”-publish, you need a team. I love that Bob...
View ArticleSomebody Put Me in Charge
Posted in publishingVia the amazing iOS app Zite, I caught this post from Hugh Howey yesterday, about what Howey would do if he took over a publishing company (in this case, Harper Collins). I love...
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