This category is for anything that I couldn’t think of any other category for. It might be just general thoughts and ideas or other nonsense, which I’m spectacularly good at.
I had a serious crisis this morning. My wife, who is also my social media manager, had been using an older draft copy of my manuscript to generate posts on Instagram. Not a big deal, there weren’t a ton of rewrites between the drafts. But she said something that absolutely destroyed me. It was an […]
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Today is the day. I officially submitted my files to Ingram. Her Violet Empire is off to the publisher. There will be a file review process in the next couple of days, and hopefully everything is accepted. Based on the submission information, HVE will be released on March 25th, 2022! I cannot express the cascade
Sorry it’s been a minute since I posted anything. For the one or two of you who keep up with this nonsense, it was sort of a planned hiatus. After 2 years of COVID lockdowns, I finally felt like it was safe enough to travel north to Virginia and see my family. I’m not sure
After a bit of a hiatus, I’m back at it. Call it a mental health break, call it a creative block, call it a week from Hell, I had to put HVE on hold for a little bit. Brace yourselves, I’m about to get wordy. The creative part that was really giving me fits was
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I finally bit the bullet and submitted my ISBN forms. Because so much of that data cannot be changed after submission, it’s *super* intimidating to finally hit submit. Having my ISBNs registered to my title was only the beginning. IngramSpark will not allow you to proceed through to setting up your print until you have
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The next step toward getting my book(s) published has been taken and I have officially set up my imprint: Maximum Cat Press! So what’s with the name? A couple posts ago, I mentioned that I lost a dear friend. My cat, Max, had been with us for more than 13 years and he was more
January sucks. In our house, it brings nothing but hurt. I had been working on some research regarding publishing, ISBNs, and imprints when my cat, my companion, got very sick indeed last Monday. By Thursday, we had to say goodbye. He was three months shy of 16, which is not an insignificant age for a
The idea for Her Violet Empire came to me in October of 2013. I ran down the hall from our bedroom to my “office” so I could write it down before I forgot. I’m a computer guy, so no way am I going to actually write it down. I struggle with ADHD-Inattentive and paper gets
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What exactly prompted me to start this today, I couldn’t say. I think it was probably just to convince myself that I would actually follow through with it. Today, I signed up for an IngramSpark account, and I’m now 100% determined to publish these silly stories of mine. I spent most of the afternoon waffling
