The life of short story fiction is erratic, unless it’s one of those very rare monster classics. You write the story, after months or years, it finds a few pages in a magazine or an anthology, and then after its short selling season, it vanishes off the radar — in most cases, forever. Hey, if… Continue reading Life after Pub-date
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Artwork for a Book
Emperor Dad isn’t the first story I’ve published, or had published. The bulk of my fiction has been short stories in the magazines. It isn’t even my first book. That honor goes to Clean Slate Word Processing for the TRS-80 back in 1983. This was my big push as an independent software developer. I wrote… Continue reading Artwork for a Book
I Need Marketing Advice
For some time now, I have been toying with the idea of selling some of my writing directly from my web site. This is quite a change from my decades-long policy of selling my stuff only through the traditional publishing companies. For just as long people have been telling me to sell direct, using the… Continue reading I Need Marketing Advice