• I posted The Cunning Blood on the Kindle Store 61 days ago, and in those two months it's earned just a hair over $3,600. 46% of that came from KU page turns. Fellow indie authors, I think we have us a business model.
• Tom Roderick sent me a link to a very nice graphical COSMAC ELF emulator, designed to look as much like Joe Weisbecker's unit from ( Read more... )

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• In order to adfertote plus catuli, you had better facite plus catuli first. A number of very sharp people I know are working on this. Their feckless critics will doubtless help.
• September 12 was the annual peak in hurricane activity. Alas, there were no tropical depressions, tropical storms, or hurricanes anywhere on Earth. And as best I ( Read more... )

There's a marvelous weirdness about Kindle Unlimited that I have not yet seen anyone else comment on. For the last two weeks, since I posted The Cunning Blood on KDP Select, I've kept ( Read more... )

It's been a wild couple of days, as Contra readers already know. I finally posted The Cunning Blood to KDP Select last ( Read more... )

Yikes! Glenn Reynolds just plugged The Cunning Blood on Instapundit. The number of books I've sold just doubled in the last hour and a quarter. He plugged the hardcover nine years ago, and we sold a lot of books then, too.

Now, as good as this is, Amazon has messed up: They were trying to "sync" the hardcover edition with the ebook edition on the ( Read more... )

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I've dropped hints here and there for almost a year, but it's ( Read more... )

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First of all, a hearty welcome to all the new readers who've posted in my comments here, and a fair number more who've left tracks in my webstats. I've had a number of links posted to my Sad Puppy Summary and Wrapup from some sites a great deal bigger than mine, including John C. Wright's, Mike Glyer's File 770, and Monster Hunter Nation, egad. Now ( Read more... )