Day Four: Last night we ordered the paperback version online at amazon.com. They notified us that it will arrive on the 27th. I guess that means we are live and well. The final three corrections are being made right … Continued
Day Three: Part of my online marketing campaign obviously is to get the word of my book out to the largest audience possible. What I have been doing over the past two weeks is joining facebook book groups. The … Continued
Day Two: I just received some more positive feedback from another person that has read the book (actually she is on chapter 12). She said it was right up her alley and she love the world that I created. … Continued
Day One: This is the first day of a 175 day campaign of blogging using this title. Why? Let’s just call it an experiment. The author of Rich Dad Poor Dad said he wasn’t the best author but he … Continued
I suppose one of the problems with being a perfectionist is that it takes so much more time to feel like everything is complete. Right now we are working on the shading of the blue on the hardback vs. the … Continued
Here was a fun paragraph to write. Sometimes the words just flow like water over rock and it doesn’t take too much to help craft the sentence. “What the…” Nathaniel didn’t even bother to finish the sentence, but paused … Continued
Well it has taken five years and three months since the original idea came to me to write this story. Since August of 2014 we have been in continual formatting mode and final edit mode just to make sure that … Continued
So just when I thought all my hard work was done and I could finally go online with my new book and market this thing I get my first proof. It was both a high light and a let down … Continued
The pain of designing a great book cover and then the payoff is something to write about. It is almost as important as the book itself, at least as far as grabbing someone’s attention. For this book it took about … Continued
Assonance and consonance are those literary devices that make sentences memorable. In Trankarri – A Boy with a Magical Pen I decided to use most of my literary devices like these when Nathaniel is in the presence of some interesting … Continued