Audio, sales, and new releases

Some important updates . . .

For the fourth time in three years, I will work with talented actor and voice-over artist Allyson Voller on an audiobook. Voller, the narrator of The Mirror, Hannah's Moon, and Indian Paintbrush, has agreed to narrate Caitlin's Song. I hope to publish the audiobook on Amazon, Audible, and Apple iTunes by the winter of 2020.

Mercer Street will appear, for the first time, as a featured book on BookBub on September 15. Set mostly in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1938 and 1939, the novel is the second in the American Journey series. I will discount the other Kindle books in the series in the week following the promotion.

And last, but not least, Camp Lake is coming in October! Thanks to some significant and unexpected progress in revising the first two drafts, I now expect to release the novel, the fifth and last book in the Carson Chronicles series, sometime next month. I will provide more details on both the Kindle and paperback editions when I can.

In the meantime, I will continue working on other projects, including a new series. I wish everyone a happy and productive autumn!

For writers, advice is abundant

In On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King advises fellow scribes to "Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."

It's not bad advice. I even follow it on occasion when I'm not trying to drown out distracting sounds both inside and outside of my urban Nevada home.

Distraction can sometimes result in inspiration. And inspiration can sometimes result in a better book. King's recommendation is just a pebble on a beach that is accessible to writers. No matter where I look in libraries, in bookstores, and online, I can find easily find experts willing to impart knowledge on writing, editing, and marketing.

Some of my favorite sites include: writersdigest.com, createifwriting.com, thecreativepenn.com, janefriedman.com, victoriastrauss.com, and selfpublishingadvice.org. Promotional sites like authormarketingclub.com, thefussylibrarian.com, and bookbub.com, which will feature Mercer Street among its September 15 listings, also offer useful resources for those in the trade.

I intend to utilize at least some of the advice from these sites in the next two months, when I put the finishing touches on Camp Lake. The fifth and final novel in the Carson Chronicles series is now set for a November release.