Category: Indie Author
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Are you finding time to write?
Today is one of those days I just want to create. I’ve been working and promoting and directing drama and doing everything else in the world I usually do except doing the one thing I really want to do: write. Indie writers have seasons. I know that. There are always competing demands to juggle. But…
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When Life Takes Precedence over Promotion
So The Recluse Storyteller, my second novel, released in October. “How’s it going?,” you ask. I guess that depends on what “going” means. Have I sold as many books as I have wanted to at this time? No. Am I disappointed? Absolutely not. I’m constantly reminded that life as an indie author is about the marathon,…
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Is a novel worth more than one song?
I was looking to purchase a song off of Amazon the other day and noticed the purchase price of $1.29. It immediately struck me odd that at that moment, my novel, Beauty Rising, is selling for only $.99. Is a song really worth more than a novel? What if it’s a terrible novel and a…
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The Standalone Novel
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only author out there that doesn’t write series. Maybe I’m secretly part Chinese. Don’t follow? Chinese artist and social critic Ai Wei-Wei has described the traditional intent of Chinese art as trying to capture a whole view of the universe in one scene or work of art. He points…
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New Review and Author’s Interview on “Lovely Reads”
Serenity’s Lovely Reads just posted her review of The Recluse Storyteller along with the interview she did with me. Here are two of the questions she asked me: Describe your main character in six words. Reclusive. Strange. Sad. Imaginative. Insightful. Live-giving. Describe the world you’ve created in six words. Intertwined. Overlapping. Anxious. Unsettled. Seeking. Finding.…
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“Art inspiring art inspiring art” – My first fan art.
Humbled beyond belief, really. Fan art, for one of my works. Really? A very gracious and talented artist attended the performance of my short play “Almighty Might” at KLPAC last week. He wrote to me the following: “I’m not much of a writer and hardly have anything to do with acting or theatre. I draw.…
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Succumbing to Twitteritis
I’ve resisted for months. It was in December 2012 that I officially stepped out into my second career of being an indie author. I didn’t know much then. I’ve learned a little. What have I learned? Being an indie author is a business. (whether I like it or not) Being an indie author is time-consuming.…
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Read my Interview on BestSellerBound & enter to win e-Book!
BestSellerBound, part of Quiet Fury Books, just posted an interview it conducted with me in conjunction with my release of The Recluse Storyteller. You can read the interview and enter to win HERE! (win a Kindle or Nook version of The Recluse Storyteller)
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A Story that Delves into “the process of creating stories”?
A reviewer of The Recluse Storyteller said the following: “The author … does an incredible job of weaving together four stories of four different people all spun in the vivid imagination of a recluse. Each story is unique and captivating, incomplete without the others, and intriguing. This book delves into a realm we generally ignore:…
Author Mark W Sasse 