New Release: Fear Begets Murder

Apr 13, 2021 | Random Musings

Remember how I mentioned I’d been ghostwriting a book a while ago? Well, the book has been published and is now available on Amazon. Fear Begets Murder: A Conspiracy Tale was written with my childhood friend, Sam, who had the original idea and steered the...

New Release: Hell’s Mall

Apr 11, 2021 | My Publications

My short story “Would you like flies with that?” was published as part of the collection Hell’s Mall: Sinister Shops, Cursed Objects, and Maddening Crowds.  Hell’s Mall is the seventh book of April Grey’s Hell’s Anthology series. I...

New Release: Copywriting with Rayne Hall

Apr 9, 2021 | My Publications

You may recall my mentioning early this year a new release by Rayne Hall and yours truly titled Copywriting: Get Paid to Write Promotional Texts. This is Rayne’s Writer’s Craft Book number 34 (!) and, obviously, one of her best 😉 Seriously, though, working...

Audio Marketing: From Radio to Clubhouse

Apr 7, 2021 | Maps and Infographics, Marketing

With audiobooks gaining in popularity, it makes sense that audio marketing is seeing a surprising resurgence as a means of promoting one’s books. This is a general trend, as Transcription Outsourcing reports. In its article, they explain that audio still has the...

10 Proven and Effective Ways to Overcome Writer’s Block

Apr 3, 2021 | Writing

This is a guest post by Jayce, the managing director of Seller Interactive, an Amazon marketing agency that offers Amazon SEO services to brands built on Amazon. With content marketing skills that have taken him to top brands such as GoDaddy and Toyota, he has...

Can AI Content Generation Replace Human Writing?

Mar 31, 2021 | Writing

Back in 2015, I wrote a hilarious post about artificially created romance novels, whence the gem below. So, how are things 6 years on? Artificial intelligence (AI) has made automation the norm in more fields than ever. In marketing, AI has transformed the way we...

Risk-Taking in the Face of Uncertainty

Mar 29, 2021 | Writing

Many of us write stories with protagonists who start out as timid persons, only to realize their potential by the of the book. When charting the hero’s journey, we have to describe how they learn to take risks. Given that there’s nothing more intimidating than...

Smart-Home Technology Trends

Mar 27, 2021 | Maps and Infographics

When I was writing A Heaven for Toasters, my near-future sci-fi romance, I was trying to imagine what life will be like in a hundred years. For my research, I studied current trends in smart homes and was amazed to realize that the future is already here. What smart...