Happy Thanksgiving

Just want to do this post to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates the American holiday. I for one am grateful for all of you reading my posts this year. When I started doing this community tab, I didn’t think anyone would read it. LOL That said, I really...

Final Beast Mode Book is Now Available

There’s a lot in this post. New book announcement below + a special holiday offer with the launch of my new direct store. I got my next book off to my editor and it will be back next week. I got the artwork picked out for the cover and the book description written so...

Finished Another Book

1500ish words today. This morning, I published the final Beast Mode Book, called Advanced Author Editing. It’s the one with the Microsoft Word macro advice. Official announcement to come tomorrow just before the holiday. I also discovered a bug on my website that I...

Killer Day Today

9000 words today. I did 3000 last night after posting the blog so I’m technically at 12,000 words within the last 24 hours, which is a record. Not bad for not writing anything for almost a month… I damn near knocked out the book I’m working on right now, which is...

Sometimes It’s a Slog

I missed two days in a row posting on this blog…but I’m not really concerned about it. I was up well into the night on both nights recording and finalizing my Microsoft Word macro videos for my upcoming book on editing, so I was incredibly productive. It just got so...

More Progress

I started production on my short Microsoft Word macro course today. I shot and edited the first group of videos. Now that I’ve (finally) got the ball rolling, I should move through the course pretty quickly. That’s the major victory for today. Also, I published Spirit...

Lessons Learned from My QA Checks

Someone asked me to do a recap of lessons I learned from the month I spent doing QA checks. I thought it was a great idea. I’m writing a book about it, but it might be helpful for people reading the blog. To summarize, for the last month, I spent almost every day...

Wish I Had More Today

0 words. Another goose egg, but I did get some business/paperwork-y stuff done today, including booking a new speaking engagement for January 2022. Q1 of next year is going be pretty busy, so that’s good. Otherwise, go read the post Dean Wesley Smith re-posted on Pulp...

Almost There

I’m so close to finishing my QA checks I can taste it. Over the last few weeks, I checked all my books and got everything republished. Over the last few days, I’ve been following up on the published versions to make sure everything published properly. Right now,...

More Progress Today

About 2000 words today. Feels good to be back on the writing horse. I’m brimming with ideas too. My next book will be about how to manage your books. It will probably be around 30-50K, but I’m always hilariously wrong with my estimates. My next book after that will be...