I released my first series of novels in 2017 a series called "infinite vampire". I invested a lot of money, time, and effort into the book's creation. I had high hopes for how sales would perform, and delusions of how I would be a breakout novelist. Unfortunately my...
Infinite Vampire
Trademarks and lawyers
A while ago, I started the process of registering Trademarks for the Infinite Vampire series. I’ve registered word-mark trademarks in the past, but for this book series, I registered 3 trademarks: Infinite Vampire (word-mark)(The Infinite Vampire Logo) (image-mark)M....
Freebooksy.com Series Promotion
I purchased a Freebooksy.com series promotion for the Infinite Vampire series on Sep. 14, 2018, and I made the first book, BLOOD 4LIFE free for that day. I had 2,179 downloads of the free book! Now, people that download a ton of books for free, rarely read them all,...
I went over to the dark side and joined Kindle Unlimited.
After a year of very disappointing sales, unsuccessful marking attempts, and a stalling out of reviews, I caved. I joined Kindle Unlimited, and it’s making me (small amounts of) money. I didn’t want to do Kindle Unlimited. I even blogged about it. I didn’t want to...
Infinite Vampire Box Sets
Recently, I tweaked the Infinite Vampire series books’ covers and fixed all known typos in them. I ordered sample books, and they look phenomenal, so I’m ordering up another batch to make box sets! Each set will include all 5 books (SOPHIA’S JOURNAL, BLOOD 4LIFE,...
Audiobooks Begin!
Want to know a secret? I’ve been an audiobook narrator for awhile, reading everything from history to romance. I’m not great, but I’m not that bad either. Anyway, I’m finally ready to begin recording my own personal audiobooks! First I’m going to record, edit, master,...
The Createspace Covergate of 2018
If you want to publish print on demand books, there are few options. The most widely used is Createspace, a company which is now owned by Amazon.com. Createspace is great; I’ve been using it for years and years without complaint. Recently though, things have changed....
Infinite Vampire Series Wordcounts
The Infinite Vampire Series is about 484,000 words! SOPHIA'S JOURNAL: 10,000 words BLOOD 4 LIFE: 102,000 words QUEEN'S GAMBIT: 144,000 words MAELSTROM: 105,000 words* ANTIVENOM: 123,000 words* * subject to slight change in proofreading and final edits....
I Published my First Book
I published Infinite Vampire I: BLOOD 4 LIFE on May 7, 2017. I told about 15k people about it, and had 150 people buy the book! (1%). As of this writing, approximately five weeks after publishing, BLOOD 4 LIFE has 33 reviews and an average rating of 4.8 stars. Next...
Three Weeks After 1st Launch
I launched my first book, Infinite Vampire I: BLOOD 4 LIFE three weeks ago, and although sales have been low, they're meeting my expectations (my very very very low expectations). Many an experienced self- or indy-published author will tell you that the first book...