Friday, March 20, 2020
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
haiku promotion
e pluribus haiku 2016 Thursday January 23
e pluribus haiku 2017 Friday January 24
e pluribus haiku 2018 Saturday January 25
Each one has a thousand original haiku, spanning fifty states and the District of Columbia. Try them!
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
New Round of Promo
Five Second Rule, available on Amazon
I write my own stories and do my own promotion, which is my only excuse for any given sluggish sales periods. Actually I sell them ok and enjoy watching them sell, but I really don't have much time; I go through long periods where I can't really do promo, much less writing. So the books sit there on Amazon and one thing I've noticed is that their rating goes steadily downward, which is upward in number: 1,569,328 today, 1,770,359 tomorrow. What I want is for them to go the other direction. It's not because I'm starving or need to put food on the table, although I do need to put food on the table. It's more that, now that I'm not the world's best math teacher, I need something for my identity to wrap around.
But fortunately, I've been working on this other side of myself: namely, I'm a Kandinsky-ist pop artist. The computer has this way of taking an ordinary photo, and kandinsky-izing it, as the one above. I do it to a lot of photos, but I have to be careful here, because, if I'm making money on it, I should be using only my own photos. I promise not to steal any photos for this enterprise; it's my writing. But using this pop art for my promos is my new thing. It's time to have some fun.
Then comes another thing, and this is something I have never thought of. Am I indie? Of course. It's entirely my own press, with no help, nobody else involved, no publishers, etc. Yet I've never really taken up that indie label. Why not? Not sure. I've been busy. I have ten kids, the last of whom are the most difficult. But the fact is, I'd never thought of it. There's a whole world out there of indie promotion and self-promotion. Time to explore that world, and put a foot in it!
Promos coming up. I finally got some time to set them up, and I did. I'll keep you informed! Also, check out my facebook page!
Friday, December 6, 2019
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Puritan Leveretts
Kindle, $5.00 here
The Leveretts were one of the earliest families in Puritan Massachusetts. This book follows Thomas Leverett, elder and friend of John Cotton; his son Governor John Leverett, John's son Hudson, and Hudson's son John Leverett, President of Harvard. Parallels with the Cottons and Mathers are pointed out. Around the time of the witch trials, the exact lineage becomes murky, so the book points out possible reasons.
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