No, Stranger on the Phone, I'm Not Interested in Traditional Publishing
There are many ways for the rando on the phone to have found out about my books. It's not a secret; it's on Linkedin, here, on Medium....


'A Wasted Death' Is Out And About
Illustration By Joleene Naylor Brynhild Von Meiser is struggling to bring up her daughter to be a good duchess and run a busy, prosperous...
A Wasted Death Will Be Out Shortly
And then you will be able to get it on Hoopla, Apple, Amazon, Kobo, and Smashwords I am very excited to expand my distribution, and that...
The Thing About Podcast to Book Pipelines
I'm reading a book about cults, and it is a direct adaptation of a Parcast podcast on the subject. The plus side for the reader is that...
Distribution Questions
So... It turns out that the one book that I promised to do an interview for is not in the KDP select program. I read the contract, and I...
You Know What's Great About Episodic Stories?
This is a small brag, but not a personal one: mystery series have cracked the meta. I realized this when I found the YouTube algorithm kept shoveling critiques of the fantasy genre at me. (I haven't read fantasy for a minute or two. I think Sir PTerry was still alive when I did, since I loved him dearly. I need to start hunting for more mystery critiques.) Disregarding that, the complaint that many of the fantasy videos aired was that they didn't want to start a trilogy or si


Timing the Editing
Someone At Work, by Rinzing Yongewa So, I sent a simple mystery, where a body is in a trash pit behind the inn, for editing. Simple line...


Counting Pennies!
My Most Frequent Reaction to the Discovery of Other People I got a notification from KDP that the platform is about to give me a whole...
Modern Mystery Series and What Makes Me Side-eye Them
I want to start out with reassurance: Everything I am complaining about, or just observing, is said out of love. I don't hate 'tropes' or...


On Outlining: When You Find Your Interest Flagging
The Outliner Considering I've been giving some thought to the common complaint of pantsers that they cannot write an outline and then...