So, day 1 as a free listing. The book spent a chunk the day in the #1 best seller position for short (= 30 minute) reads in Science Fiction and Fantasy. It’s also done well on the lists for Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Cyberpunk, and (oddly to me) Literature and Fiction.…

Good morning. A quick note to observe that Ritchie Boss: Private Investigator Manager, my award-winning, Creative Commons-licensed, fiction chapter from an academic textbook is now on the free lists at Amazon. The best thing you could do to help is to write an honest review.…

My goal is to be very open in my selfpub marketing approaches here, including what works and what doesn’t.

My immediate strategy is to gather my tribe in an email list. (Join here). I’m launching two short story titles, one the sequel of the other, one permafree and one paid, ideally landing both on respective top 100 lists.…

If you’re reading this, you are probably a good fit for my email list, “Geeks”. On the list, I get more personal (and more geeky) than on the blog. I will recommend various geeky books and products, a few of which are even from me.…

While I do participate in social media where it makes sense, I do not use Facebook. At all. In the unlikely event you run across someone there claiming to be me, it’s fake. UPDATE. See this new posting. Keeping the previous one here for historical purposes.…

Playing with the statistics on Goodreads. Apparently I read 115 books in 2014, 14 of which I rated as 5-star. Fourteen books that changed my life and/or I will definitely be re-reading at some point.

I’m working on formulating some more stats based on the data.…