A time-honored classic. Like “Do you want me to turn this car around?” or “Wait until your father gets home!” One of those countless sayings you swore you’d never inflict on your own children, let alone your fans. Yep, this one’s… Read More ›
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Empty Quiver Now Available!
“so real, so believable, that you’re left wanting more…” – The Author Visits 5 star Review of Crimson Son WANT NO MORE Empty Quiver: Tales from the Crimson Son Universe is now available on Amazon! If you snuck in on… Read More ›
How to Sell 9,000 Books over the Weekend
Edit: Eat your heart out, Vegeta. Step One: Write an awesome book. This may sound like a given, but it’s a very difficult thing to do. It takes blood, sweat, tears. Maybe a bit of plasma, depending on your financial situation. Step… Read More ›
Bundle of Badassery
Hang on, breaking out the ShamWow voice… “Savvy” readers check for a book’s publisher and if they don’t see a big house, they turn up their nose. Indie books are the new vanity press. If those authors could write, they’d have an… Read More ›
Keep Writing and Ignore the Noise
Writing great literature is about writing things that last. Stories that transcend current trends and attitudes. Stories that can inspire a broad group of people regardless their happenstance of birth. Writing like that needs to be recognized. To try and… Read More ›
Advice by the Kilo
Care to partake of my questionable wisdom? Head over to the Iconoclastic Writer and prepare to be astounded by my list of 5 Things I learned Self Publishing. This isn’t really advice or another drop in the flood of “I… Read More ›
Oooh! Shiny! Synchronizers!
I’m continuing along my brave quest into recently discovered indie frontiers. I’m shamelessly following a path blazed by the Immerse or Die report over at Creativity Hacker. That path is littered with the husks of cast off self-pub works which strike… Read More ›
Keeping My Towel for the Blood, Sweat and Tears
Normally people use New Year’s blog posts to talk about the past. Top ten lists take over the web (more than normal). The best and worst of a year gone by. I’m going to touch on that, but only to… Read More ›
Rewarding Noise, Drowning the Signal
You may have noticed a certain lull in my social media presence. A dialing back on the number of tweets. Fewer quips sent to the facebook feed. Maybe even the less regular appearance of my little nuggets of wisdom here… Read More ›
That’s no Moon…
I’ve got a mission statement. Nothing like establishing a galactic empire. No, closer to crafting a fully operational story sharing station where I can target people in need of good fiction and zap it into their brain from somewhere far, far… Read More ›
RUSS LINTON 