The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
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Back on track
Did a lot of writing this week, culminating with finishing up the early chapters today. I’m shooting for finishing this summer and releasing book 2 in early autumn, hopefully no later than September (which may technically be summer, but we’ll … Continue reading
A Capitalism kind of May Day
I’m celebrating May Day by putting both versions of Darkness Rising: Book One of The Catmage Chronicles on sale. The ebook price has been reduced to $2.99 for the month, and the paperback has been reduced as well. What’s that? … Continue reading
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The write energy
My extra writing energy went into my fiction today. That seems to happen a fair amount these days. It’s understandable. This blog is my hobby. The fiction, well, that’s what I want to be my life’s work. April was a … Continue reading
The Catmage Chronicles update
Tax time forced me to update my records of copies sold, and I’m happy to say that three more sales will put me at 200 copies sold. Considering now it’s absolute strangers buying my book, I’m pretty pleased. Of course, … Continue reading
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Tax time
Have you done your taxes yet? I procrastinated until today. I’m mostly done, have to get a few more documents and add in a few more deductions, then I’m good to go for the year. TurboTax made it really easy … Continue reading
Paperback of Darkness Rising on sale now
Amazon put the paperback edition of Darkness Rising: Book One of The Catmage Chronicles on sale. If you wanted to buy it but weren’t happy with the price, it’s under $10 now. Darkness Rising: Book One of The Catmage Chronicles … Continue reading
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Another day, another post
Yeah, between being busy and not wanting to do the usual posts, well, the day has slipped by and there’s no news post from me. Sales of my book have picked up this month, thanks to an Instapundit link and … Continue reading
Calling all Facebook users
The ones who also read my blog, that is. I’d appreciate it if you shared this post on your FB feed. The more views, the better chance of a book sale. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=512009022179258&set=a.428121710567990.91802.411051125608382&type=1 Just click on the “share” link at the … Continue reading
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Congrats to Julie Dillon on the Hugo nomination!
Julie Dillon, the talented artist responsible for my cover, has been nominated for a Hugo Award. This calls for another look at that gorgeous cover.
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Some help from my readers
I’ve got a Passover-themed press release for my novel going out to the Richmond-area Jewish newspaper and some synagogues. But I don’t need to limit myself to my area. I’d appreciate it if my readers would either send me the … Continue reading
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Darkness Rising makes it into the Times Dispatch
Darkness Rising: Book One of The Catmage Chronicles made it into my local paper. Alas, they don’t review self-published books. And they don’t link to them on Amazon, either, which is missing a crucial form of revenue, if you ask … Continue reading
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Meanwhile, back at the writing biz
The ebook of Darkness Rising: Book One of The Catmage Chronicles is on sale at $2.99 until Thursday. You can get it via Amazon, B&N, and Kobo. Remember, you can read four chapters for free (and send the link to … Continue reading
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Found
I’ve been recovering my old short stories from various backup directories, and converting them from XyWrite to Notepad to Word files. Been a busy day. Reading these stories again is like meeting old friends that you haven’t seen in ages.
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Retrieving XyWrite files
Yep, that’s what I’m going to be doing this week–retrieving files I wrote using XyWrite, which was a fabulous word processing program written by some of the guys that brought you Atex, the typesetting system I learned in the early … Continue reading
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Sales and giveways
The ebook sale is going to continue through the end of the month. The Goodreads giveway ends tomorrow at midnight PST. Three more copies, six more days. You can sign up for Goodreads with Facebook and other social media accounts. … Continue reading
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