I had fun making a book trailer back in 1999 before Youtube and before anyone was making book trailers. It was a lot of fun, but it's very dated. Hey, it's 2012. 1999 is a long time ago.
I like to accept invitations to speak because it gives me a chance to practice my shtick in front of crowds. Each time I get better at it, and the stage fright gets less.
I wrote a vampire novel because I love apocalyptic fiction. But this novel goes through the apocalypse and out the other side, and the world ends up with a new religion.
And I didn't even have to get arrested to make that happen. Membership has it privileges, and for years I've been a member of the Crime Writers of Canada, ever since my editor at Storyteller Magazine (alas, gone now--the magazine, not my editor) told me I should join.
All the great success stories on Amazon--from Amanda Hocking to John Locke--have one thing in common: multiple books.
Promoting a novel through give-aways is a great idea, and with e-books it's relatively inexpensive, but I learned a lesson recently.
I like being on panels, so when I got an e-mail from the SF convention Polaris looking for volunteer panelists, I took a look through the line up to see if anything fit my areas of expertise.
Blame it on sleep deprivation, new technology or simply a bad click, but it seems I launched a Google ad campaign for Vampire Road last week.
Okay, it was supposed to launch on May 15th. it was supposed to launch yesterday. But at last, Vampire Road has launched. Kind of.
My post-apocalyptic vampire novel, Vampire Road, will launch Monday, May 30th. It will only be available for the Kindle platform via Amazon at first, but all other formats will follow.