Category: Indie Author
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Retiring “Spy Blue: The Novella”
I recently decided to retire my first and only novella Spy Blue. I wrote that several years ago after I had co-written the drama “Spy Blue.” When I was in the final editing process of the play, I realized that I liked the story and it would be quite easy to turn it into a novella.…
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Final Polish Applied: Novel Three on Schedule
I spent the last week and half doing a final-final-final clean-up, read-through, edit on my third novel, “The Reach of the Banyan Tree.” This final run-through was after my proofreader and editor worked her magic and all changes were made. But I just felt like I wanted to read it one more time before giving…
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Three Generations – One Awesome Vietnam Story
As The Reach of the Banyan Tree gets closer to launch day, I want to highlight the one American family which always seems to be connected to Vietnam – the Carson family. Charles Carson was a member of the OSS (pre-cursor to the CIA) and parachuted into Tonkin, French Indochina in the summer of 1945, just…
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Overtaking my own novel
Put this in the every increasing fat file folder called “I still don’t know what I’m doing as an indie author.” Release dates for novels. What’s really the best? Here’s the spacing of my three novels: December 2012 October 2013 July 2014 Is that good spacing? Bad spacing? Could have it been improved? Could it…
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Book Promotion: It’s Still a Mystery
It has now been one year and seven months since I took the plunge into self-publishing and became an indie author. I’ve learned a lot along the way, and one of the biggest lessons I have learned is already stated in the title of this post: book promotion is still a mystery. What does a…
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Two Author Events Coming Up!
I’m very excited about returning to the USA for 5 weeks for the first time since I have published my first novel. This will be my first opportunity to to share my books and passion for writing in person with friends and lovers of books. I’m happy to announce that I have two different author…
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Another Scrivener convert. I should get commission.
I was standing outside the theatre doors, greeting the crowd at the world premiere opening of my musical last week when one of my writer friends attacked me with a firm handshake. “I took your advice about Scrivener, and, wow, it’s fantastic. Thank you so much.” It’s easy to proselytize something you are passionate about,…
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One Month from Today: The Reach of the Banyan Tree
I was excited about the release of both of my first two novels, but with my third novel on the horizon, I’m a little more excited than usual. Why? I guess it is because of the story and the back story of writing it. I was living in Thai Nguyen Vietnam (where much of the…
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Amazon: Ratings and Reviews
If you missed it, and I nearly did, Amazon has added (or is in the process of adding) ratings on products as well as reviews. I noticed this just yesterday when looking at my books on line. This is what I saw: I was immediately curious as to what the 39 meant. I had never…
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Typography & Indie Authors
I like to do things myself. This can be good. This can be bad. As an indie author, typography is one of those jobs that I have no business doing, but I find myself doing it anyways. I know many authors are by-passing the print versions of their books and just releasing e-Book versions. I’m…
Author Mark W Sasse 