It ain’t pretty, but here are some of the ideas I’ve been kicking around to muffle/eliminate extraneous noise while I am recording. First, we have the headgear. Not sure this is gonna fly. It’s really hot inside there—this is foam mattress topper material. Then, there...
After quite a few months of focusing on my real job, and going 0 for 4 with agents on my manuscript, I decided to solicit feedback on my audiobook from listeners I hired on Upwork. I never did this the first time, because my beta “readers” were actually readers…of the...
Who owns the art, the painter, or the purchaser? Today, I got a note back from the Copyright Office about whether I actually owned the copyrights to the art in my filing (which included the text I wrote and the art I commissioned and revised with freelance artists)....
( NOTE: This post pertains to “The Range: Cry of the Desert” — the first installment in the fantasy series I’m writing. ) As I work through this “second edition” of the book, I’m realizing a few things. First, it’s much...
Here we are. It’s been a few days since I finished and sent the book and audiobook to my Kickstarter backers, but I completed on time, as promised. Now, the next step is to revise the manuscript according to the advice of two of my trusted editors. I’ve...
