As we count down to The Italian Screwjob’s March 15th release, I’m sharing one chapter a day from the book. Despite calls from the peanut gallery to pick those chapters randomly and without context, I have once again opted to start at the beginning. As ever with later books in the series, the text will…
As we count down to The Italian Screwjob’s March 15th release, I’m sharing one chapter a day from the book. Despite calls from the peanut gallery to pick those chapters randomly and without context, I have once again opted to start at the beginning. As ever with later books in the series, the text will…
In a month already overflowing with new posts, I have one more to share with you all before we get to the five sample chapters for The Italian Screwjob, and this time, it’s about me instead of my books. Well, I guess it’s about me and my books… this week, I was interviewed by a…
With the release of The Italian Screwjob, book four in The Many Travails of John Smith, just one week away, I thought it might be fun to both remind you all of who our principal players are… and to introduce you to a few of the many, many, many new characters that will make their appearance in this book. I hope you’ll love (or hate) the newcomers as much as I do! Now, without further ado, let’s meet the cast of The Italian Screwjob!
The Italian Screwjob is the fourth book of The Many Travails of John Smith. That means more adventures for our affable everyman, more supernatural hijinks, more drama, trauma, and Obama (technically, anyway… the book is set in 2015), and especially more of the chapter subtitles readers know and love.
A subject that pops up from time to time in self-publishing circles is pricing. How much is too much? Is there even such a thing as too cheap? Do readers treat free books differently than they would books they have to buy? And is there even such a thing as a consensus opinion these days?
The truth is that there are a lot of factors that go into a pricing decision and many of those factors are external in nature. With the release of The Italian Screwjob somehow only two weeks away, I thought I’d take you all on a quick trip through the modern day theme park ride that is my strategy for pricing.
I know… I know. ‘But Chris,’ you’re thinking, ‘the cover for The Italian Screwjob has been up on Amazon for literally months!’ And… you’re not wrong. Longer pre-order periods mean cover reveals are mostly a thing of the past. Especially since I like to share the artwork as soon as I get it. But the…
For a while now, I’ve started and ended each year with blog posts detailing my writing goals for that year. Making those goals public has been a way to both let you all know what’s coming and hold myself publicly accountable. Unfortunately, the whole thing has gotten a little bit stale. So, this year, I’m…
For the past few years, I’ve had numerous people reach out to me and ask about getting signed copies of my books, but I’ve always been more focused on writing the next book instead… or perhaps too daunted by the idea of dealing with e-commerce, storefronts, and shipping to want to even try.
It’s been ten days since One Tin Soldier‘s release, which somehow means Thanksgiving is less than a week away, Christmas is less than five, and it’ll be 2053 before we know it. As ever, time has no real meaning anymore. Still, it seemed like a good time to look back at the release and to…