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Welcome to the ninth installment of Year One – you can access the previous entries right here! Marketing that is. As a creative, marketing is the part most of us hate more than anything in the world. We want to just create. We don’t want to have to push our products on people, we want them to come to it. The problem is, there is so much product out there, unless you are someone like Stephen King or have a million friends, just announcing a new product is not going to make people buy it or be interested. Tapping the...

Welcome to the eighth installment of Year One – you can access the previous entries right here! That’s what I was saying to the manager at Barnes and Noble when he told me they’d love to have me do an in-store signing, but not with my book being only available to them via Createspace. Come back when your books are returnable kid. I’m paraphrasing, but that was the gist of the statement. There was more to it than that, of course…but that’s what I heard. How do you pick where to publish your book? Hire a printer and just have...

Welcome to the seventh installment of Year One – you can access the previous entries right here! Writing a book isn’t the only creative part of the process.  Once the manuscript is complete, there are two other important aspects to consider before the book can be considered complete: Book Design and Cover Design. Cover Design touches on what the header alluded to. What is someone going to see when they pick up your book? This was something I knew had to be perfect before I ever got close to creating a cover. Yes, a book should stand on its merits...

Welcome to the six installment of Year One – you can access the previous entries right here! In the last installment I veered off course a little to address the all-important email list, but let’s get back to the process of creation. The first draft is done. It feels awesome, like a giant weight has been lifted. Pat yourself on the back and feel great for a minute, but the real work is about to begin. Everyone likes different things about writing, I actually enjoy rewriting. It’s fun to tear a piece apart for what works and doesn’t work. Moving...

The Couch #1 received a pretty nice review last week on ComicBastards.com by Hunter Patrick: Go get this book if you can find it and help support the creators for a book that deserves to be on shelves everywhere and not just a couch somewhere... Check it out the rest here: