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…
[April 14th, 2022 Update: The One Tin Soldier audiobook is now available! – CT] I’ll have a longer post next week, with a retrospective on One Tin Soldier’s release, but I’ve had a number of people reach out to me already asking where the audiobook is. And rightly so! Our narrator, Joe Vernon, did a…
Today, roughly 1,882 days after I sent my angel-wife the initial opening to See These Bones, saying: ‘I don’t know… what do you think?’, the trilogy is finally complete.
With the release of One Tin Soldier just five days away, I thought it would be fun to once again share some quick, mainly ridiculous, stats about the book. All numbers provided here represent my best guesses after a less-than-careful review of the manuscript, and I reserve the right to be proven utterly incorrect by…
The last two days passed in a blur. Holding Tessa. Meditating out on the bench overlooking the Pacific. Eating the cupcakes Winter had made for Silt, Supersonic, and me, as if we were headed to our own funerals, already lost forever in the wind-stricken plains of the Badlands.