Tying Up Loose Ends in Order to Start Anew Pt. 1
Reflecting on attempts to market the novel, A Perfect Blindness, by exploring AI tools and shifting genres. After initial experiments with Amazon’s A10 algorithm and A+ content, results were disappointing. Despite a lackluster showing at the Brooklyn Book Festival, new insights from AI usage show promise for improved marketing strategies.
I Believed a Quote That Wasn’t True
The author reflects on a misundertood quote and how it shaped him as a writer.
UPDATES from Laboratory Brooklyn
An update on A+ content, description and changes to metadata as well as short stories moving things forward
Of Butchery and Meta Data
He found plenty of references to surprises, shocks, twists, and endings that readers hadn’t seen coming. That suggests a very different kind of book.
Persistence and Determination or How Me and My Writer Friends Keep at It
This idea that “nothing in this world can take the place of persistence” has sustained me from the wilderness of Columbus, Ohio, to the tall buildings of Chicago, and the subway-fed boroughs of NYC and all the places I’ve lived between.
Jonathan is Back, Rock on
For everyone who wants to give that time in Chicago a spin. I’ll suffer it all again just to get on stage one more time.
The Highest Compliment I’ve Ever Been Paid
Going alone and publishing on Amazon is putting yourself into the largest ocean there is, which is full of Great White Sharks and Orcas like Zafon, King, and Koontz, as well as minnows and krill.
A Perfect Blindness and Tales of Another World
Get A Perfect Blindness free for a limited time and step back into the 1980s.
When that Feeling Something’s Wrong Keeps Growing
I had a breakthrough. But not until suffering through the terror I might have wasted the past two-plus years.
Libraries, Levels, and the Readercon
For kicks and giggles last week, I checked World Catalogue again. The book is now in 11 libraries!
