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For the past few days, my wife and I spent a lot of time photographing hummingbirds around the house. These beautiful, little birds can be mesmerizing and it is often surprising to watch just how inquisitive they are. Some of them are truly quite fearless. Since we’re using camera flashes in order to properly highlight the birds against the background,… Continue reading "A case of hummingbirds"
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I am a huge fan of the Kindle. Always been. I owned a first-generation Kindle and in my mind, the Kindle was every bit as revolutionary a product as the iPhone. A game changer. However, as great as it is, even the Kindle is not perfect. I am not talking here about buttons being too small or somesuch thing. I… Continue reading "10 Things Amazon should correct in the Kindle"
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Only now I realized that, despite posting about the preparations for the launch, I have never actually informed you that my middle-grade chapter book “Kitt Pirate: Snaggletooth’s Treasure” has actually been released. As I mentioned before, I have settled on the pen name Ben Oliver for this release, to create a bit of separation between the horror books I’ve been… Continue reading "Kitt Pirate has been released… and other children’s books"
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Oftentimes when I send out a finished e-book to a client after I completed the formatting for them, I get an email that asks me, “Why is the Table of Contents in the back?” The more I thought about it, the more I felt it is something I should probably talk about here on my blog, because there are a… Continue reading "The Table of Contents in the digital age"
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Last week I told you about my upcoming middle-grade book, Kitt Pirate and also showed you the cover artwork for the book. Well, as these things go so often, we actually made a number of change to the cover because there were a few things that Juan, my wife and I felt could still be improved. So, Juan had another… Continue reading "The Kitt Pirate cover got another rework"
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Some of you may recall that I mentioned before that I have been working on a middle-grade book for some time. Well, the book is essentially finished and almost ready to be published and I thought I’d give a quick heads-up, as to what it actually is. Please meet Kitt Pirate! As the title suggests, this is the story of… Continue reading "The scoop on my middle-grade book"
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Today I have more exciting news for you. Like Gord Rollo and Gene O’Neill, I met Joe McKinney during the World Horror Convention in Austin a few months ago, and I was also immediately struck not only by his warm personality, which was particularly evident also during the reading Gene and he held on one of the days. For those… Continue reading "The Predatory Kind might be for you!"
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During the World Horror Convention in Austin earlier this year I had the chance to spend some quality time with horror authors Gord Rollo and Gene O’Neill. Both of them are established and traditionally published authors in the horror genre, that many of you may be familiar with as they’ve published a number of fascinating books. Both had not made… Continue reading "Check out the “Mean Streets”"
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As people tackle the subject of e-book formatting, every once in a while I receive an email with the question, what meta-data in an e-book are actually used for. Since you will have to re-upload your book description, the ISBN and the keyword tags on every distribution channel’s portal again and again, the question clearly becomes, why am I entering… Continue reading "Meta-data… what are they good for?"
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Every once in a while I pick up a book and as I start reading it, it turns into this revelatory, almost overwhelming, experience. Dos this happen to you, too, sometimes? You start reading and as you make your way through the book you go “How come I had never heard of this book before?” or “Why is not everyone… Continue reading "Blockbuster – where did you hide?"
