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Interview with Michael C Bland, Sci-fi Author

Interview with Michael C Bland, Sci-fi Author

Today I’m talking with Michael C Bland, who writes science fiction novels that imagine a possible future. Tell us something about your books. The Price of Safety is a science fiction novel set 30 years in the future where technology is so interwoven in people’s lives that no crime goes unsolved. When Dray Quintero’s nineteen-year-old daughter […]

Creating Characters with Bite

Creating Characters with Bite

I’m working on a new series right now, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned about hooking readers into a series, it’s that the characters make all the difference. OK, so compelling plots will keep people turning the pages. Great prose will stop them writing one-star reviews criticizing use of commas. And you need a […]

My Top 6 Writing, Publishing and Marketing Posts of 2019

My Top 6 Writing, Publishing and Marketing Posts of 2019

Happy New Year! I hope you had an awesome 2019 for writing and selling books. I had some concrete goals: To publish five books. To sell 10,000 books, ten times more than in 2018. Here’s how I did: I published four full length books and one shorter book. I also published two box sets. I […]

Writing with an injury

Writing with an injury

So this week I was going to post another 20books Vegas update. Failing that, maybe a marketing post. Or something festive. But events have overtaken me. I’ve injured a tendon in my upper right arm. I’m not entirely sure how I did it, but I imagine it was a combination of typing about 120k words […]