Category: Promotion

• December 11, 2023

  Need a Christmas or Holiday Gift for a teen? I have a great option . . .

  Is that teen a fan of Harry Potter or The Hunger Games? If so, they might well LOVE “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope.” But don’t take my word for it. My nephew said it reminded him of Harry Potter. Reviews on Amazon are great and compare it to The Hunger Games (which I…
• December 4, 2023

  Riding a high . . .

  As I write this on November 30, it’s been quite a week since Sunday! Here’s just a recap of all that’s happened: That’s quite a list for one week! Some items are more major than others, but all represent progress, and things are so hard as an indie author that I love celebrating the small…
• November 29, 2023

  My latest small win: first sale from an Amazon ad

  As any creative type could tell you, it’s HARD out there. Even with a quality product, it’s hard to get attention, hard to get heard, and even harder to make any kind of sale at all. That’s why it’s important to celebrate small wins. Today, I’m super excited that after doing some research and setting…
• November 28, 2023

  Tuesday Tunes: “Real World,” Matchbox 20

  Back in 2007 or 2008, when I was writing the first draft of “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope,” I was sitting outside a classroom on campus at the University of Alabama with my iPod Mini. (Oh, those were the days!) “Real World” by Matchbox 20 came on. I realized INSTANTLY that it was…
• October 25, 2023

  My villain is . . . right?

  I now have two reviews that explicitly mention my villain–certainly my favorite of any of my villains–Zalski Forzythe. He’s the sorcerer who’s killed the royal family of Herezoth and taken over. He’s witty, intelligent, courageous, and . . . intense. He’s also RIGHT, in the sense that he has a deep understanding of the kingdom…
• October 24, 2023

  Tuesday Tunes: “Heaven” by Better Than Ezra and “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope”

  For a couple of years now, I have realized that Better Than Ezra’s “Heaven” is a perfect fit for a particular climactic kind of scene at the end of book one of my Herezoth trilogy: “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope.” Without spoilers, the chapter is titled “The Price of Victory” You can listen…
• October 14, 2023

  The key to a hard magic system

  I LOVE a good hard magic system–one with explicitly outlines rules about magic, what working magic requires, and who can do it. The Harry Potter books are probably the most explicitly detailed hard magic system that a VAST number of people would be familiar with. The magic system in my own novels is more hard…
• October 12, 2023

  Thankful Thursday: thankful for Amazon “ratings”

  

  Any indie author could tell you that reviews and ratings are different things on Amazon. Amazon will allow you to leave a 1-5 star rating for a product or book without leaving a review along with it. Well, since the free promotion I ran for my birthday, I’ve had two new ratings without review populate.…
• October 4, 2023

  A story of three families

  One of my favorite ways to think about my Herezoth trilogy is as the story of three families. You are introduced to each of these families in book one, largely through a pair of siblings (Kora and Zac, Menikas and Lanokas, Zalski Forzythe’s family). Sibling relationships, for some reason, are very influential and important in…
• September 28, 2023

  Thankful Thursday: grateful for all who contributed to a successful free promo

  This post will be shorter. I’m tired, haha. Thanks to EVERYONE who helped make this recent 5-day/Freebooksy-supported free promotion of “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope” successful. You shared the news. You downloaded. You put up with my posts and promotion of the promo. I really appreciate your help making Herezoth accessible to a…