Random Stuff

  • We’ve all had that one author friend that has had trouble with Amazon, and thought that maybe their issue was just a fluke. Then we hear about it from another author, and another. How can Amazon be affecting so many authors? Surely, we‘ll be okay. Then it happens to us. I am hearing more and more lately

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  • Two Goals Down!

      That’s right, ladies and gentlemen; I have actually reached two of the three goals I set out for myself. I completed Becoming Jeremy and compiled the entire collection for you! The print edition of The Collection will be out soon, but it’s just taking a bit of time for me to finish editing the

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  • That’s right, ladies and gentlemen!! Becoming Night Touched had a bit of a makeover. This will be followed by a full TNTC makeover later, but for now, I hope you love them as much as I do. These new covers are available now. (Becoming Harper and Becoming Celine will be getting their freebie status fixed

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  • Will we ever learn?

    The sad fact remains that every month, another self-publishing author is doing another stupid thing to make the rest of us look bad. I have said several times that I do not think that we, as authors, should be trying to crowd source any kind of funding. There are plenty of low cost, well put

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  • Hello everyone! Thank you for your continued support!! I appreciate it so much. A lot is going on with me personally and I felt I needed to update you all. I am going back to school to become an attorney. I am a sophomore, so that’s exciting. My schedule is full time while trying to

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  • If you’ve even thought about becoming an author, then you’ve probably heard about all of the review sites out there. The one with the worst reputation is Goodreads. Infamous for author-on-author bullying, endless sock accounts, trolls, author-on-reviewer bullying, and more, most authors tend to steer clear of the book-centric social media site. The first “attempt” to

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  • Note: Please understand that I am not going back on everything I have said regarding reviews, reviewers, and reasons why you shouldn’t respond. I am, however, expressing disdain over a particular incident. I am not telling reviewers how to review a book “properly” or any nonsense like that. I recently read a review of a

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  • http://blog.bookbaby.com/2015/08/confronting-bad-book-reviews/?utm_campaign=BB1534&utm_source=BBeNews&utm_medium=Email&spMailingID=49346304&spUserID=MTMyMzE5MDIyMjcwS0&spJobID=742828219&spReportId=NzQyODI4MjE5S0 Adler says in the post: Bad book reviews, bad opinions, insults, verbal abuse, diminishment, jealousy, frustration, along with effusive praise come with the territory. In today’s environment celebrate you’re being noticed and, whatever is said about you and your work, be sure your name is spelled right. While I wouldn’t praise anyone who has

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  • On June 8th, I created the post “Writing Goals-Better Late Than Never” outlining that I wanted to complete the Becoming Night Touched mini series, create the collection and publish that, AND release the new edition of TNTC Book 1: Celine. Well, I am happy to say that I have hit goal 1! A short story

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  • I understand that I tend to go against popular opinion, but I was so tired of seeing all of the “poor EL James” blog posts. This is all I am going to say about it. Everyone seems to have an opinion about the explosion of anti-50 Shades tweets following a failed public AMA for EL James

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