I’m not gonna do the polite thing that I normally do and not make it about me, either. Absolutely, rank and review my books. Do it for other people, sure, but I hunger for help from the algorithm just like any other author would. Especially on months where my online sales are drastically lagging my offline ones, and I don’t even understand why that happens. But it does! It’s like there’s this Law of Conservation of Sales, and it is bemusing to no end.
#commissionearned
Dear Lord but you feel the impact of that Child Tax Credit segueing into a dependent one. In other words, my eldest is now almost an adult, which is really the most important thing here*. You want them growing up, after all.
None the less: buy my books! Every little bit helps.
Moe Lane
*Yes, the baby you remember is almost eligible to vote. I know it must seem like it sucks to get old, but as always: consider the alternative.
Order from Amazon now, and my books will STILL arrive before Christmas! You have time remaining to give the gift of my words!
…You can also just buy stuff on Amazon via this link, too. Every little bit helps!
Looks like it’ll be fun. Fun, close, and Sunday, May 18th, 2025. It’s the first time I’m doing the Arbutus Arts Festival, so I don’t know what to expect. I do know that there’s beer, so if you’re in Baltimore County that day come by to grab a book and a brew. Or a bunch of books and a brew. I’ll happily sell you my entire back catalog.
In retrospect it was not a great idea to schedule my first real cold in four years smack dab in the middle of November. I’m way behind on the book, haven’t been able to schedule any Christmas vending opportunities, and I’m just generally feeling like everything’s out of momentum. Kind of a vicious cycle, too, which isn’t helping matters much.
I’m not mentioning any of this for sympathy. I just want to be on the record as knowing that it’s been a slacker month, too, and that I have to get off my butt at some point and get going again. Nobody else’s gonna do that for me, after all.
10 PM, Eastern Time. You should be able to catch it above. Looking forward to it, and I’m just glad I wasn’t doing it yesterday, when I was mildly delirious. Then again, it might have been interesting to listen to. In a trainwreck sort of way.
Check out my books if you haven’t, as always.
…only thing is, I don’t sell enough books to be able to effectively offer it. I mean, yeah, it’s a free country. I’m allowed to sneer. But it’ll still just come across as sour grapes; and, if we’re being brutally honest about it, that impression might not be completely wrong.
So. Buy my books! Allow me the luxury of a good writer’s feud!
Continue reading I have an opinion on an alternate history series…This week has been one for the books, in terms of dealing with the fallout of the rest of the family being sick at various points during it. Writing has taken the hit. Such is life.
So, here’s the new plan. I lean into it, and spend the weekend watching surfing and beach movies. First up is GIDGET, which is… yeah. I understand that things were a bit different, sixty-five years ago, but… okay. At least the actresses aren’t fifteen and sixteen.
#commissionearned
Which is what I’ve been doing this morning. Conclusions: Draft To Digital is fairly comprehensive in getting a book together, including adding things like a table of contents or dedications for you, but their Extended Distribution royalty rates are horrible and I don’t think I can exclude Amazon from them. Barnes and Noble has a better royalty rate than I expected, but its book assembly process is far less useful than KDPs. I may still use it, but I’m first going to need to adjust the manuscript a good deal and possibly skip having a table of contents.
So that was what I did today so far. Illuminating, even if it made my brain a little sore.
Moe Lane
PS: Buy my books!
#commissionearned
I was originally going to do another 3K story (I’m halfway done with this week’s), as well as finish a couple of stories for the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION 2 short story sampler (from the Kickstarter). But the way the schedule’s been working this week, that’s not viable. What I really need to do is just work on the sampler, and get it done*.
So I guess I’m doing that next week, instead.
Moe Lane
*Which, at the rate things are going, is only two stories away from being one of those novels that are really a bunch of short stories with the same characters and a narrative arc.
