Welcome to the new site!

Howdy! How ’bout these new digs?! I’m a nerd so all things shiny and/or animated always grab me, but so too does simplicity. This site is built on the WordPress platform, so I can now make sweeping changes, add content, and create blog posts like this one directly from my phone. Mobile device users visiting the site will receive pages scaled perfectly for their screens without the need to zoom or tap a tiny link surrounded by other tiny links. If you like the site, you should be able to post a comment below, or if you find something funky…

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The Amazon Exclusivity talk…

It hasn’t been easy deciding whether to accept Amazon’s persistent push for authors to sell exclusively through them. For those who don’t know the background, Amazon provides certain benefits to authors who enroll in KDP Select, such as inclusion in the Kindle Owners Lending Library (“KOLL”, through which Amazon Prime members, once a month, may “borrow” any participating ebook for free), Kindle Unlimited (“KU”, a new subscription service which offers unlimited Kindle books for a flat $9.99 a month), KDP All-Stars (a new monthly bonus plan, paid on top of regular royalties), as well as certain marketing/merchandising opportunities like “Free…

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