In anticipation of the release of my upcoming novel, Jump, I wanted to offer some answers on a few questions I think readers and media might have regarding the book. I hope you enjoy! How did the idea for ...
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Feed SubscriptionA Specific Marketing Plan for Self-Published Authors
I’ve already published a thorough marketing strategy with a calendar outlining specific deadlines and objectives. Now I want to share with you my overarching Marketing Plan for Jump based on an outline I found on the All Indie Writers website. The ...
Read More »Protected: So excited, it blinded me
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Read More »Great sentences are not good enough
I got suckered into reading a novel titled “All That Is” after I read a review once. In that review (which I can’t seem to find anymore) the reader mentioned that author James Salter is a master of sentence structure. ...
Read More »How to make evil characters complex
Yesterday I warned against flattening your characters, especially the “enemy” ones you want your readers to hate. Today, I want to provide some tangible advice on how to accomplish this. Below are some simple suggestions to make your villains, antagonists, ...
Read More »My conversion story to Christ
(Feature image at the top of this blog post belongs to Lucid Light) I grew up Catholic. My younger brother and sister, who are twins, were baptized as babies by Pope John Paul II. I was baptized by a friend ...
Read More »My thieving childhood
When I was a boy, my family lived in Italy, and I used to steal office supplies from my father’s study and sell them at school for money to buy candy. I stole pens, pencils, sharpeners, erasers, scotch tape, post-it ...
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