BRAIN SHIT STORM OF WHAT THE HECK....Author Problems...

Traditionally published authors have teams of people; helping them write, helping them edit, helping them schedule, helping them format, helping them design and market and pay for things...I have almost no help...I have beta readers. I LOVE my beta readers!!!!!!

What's most frustrating about being an independent author is the EVERYTHING. From being in charge of ALL of your own marketing, editing and formatting, to the cover of the book...I never feel sure of myself. I never know if anything I do makes a difference to people. For years I've second guessed my cover designs. Finally I actually sat down and obsessed over all my data and reports, and here is what the facts show. 

Below is a break down of sales per month per book cover and total money earned per book cover, per book...this was fun... 

All those lovely ladies above are my sister. I love her. I think she is BEAUTIFUL! But, she's still a teenager, and my books are rated R for full of really raunchy shit from time to time....so I felt bad having her on my cover. Sadness...Maybe I'll take new photos of her when she is 18. 

What time is it? New covers time!

All those drawings...Eh, I just wasn't feeling the love with these drawings.

So, those covers are actually me...Well, I manipulated the photos to make me look more like Raina, but in the end, even though I clearly made WAY more money with my face than any other cover, I just couldn't. I felt too damn self conscious staring at my damn mug all the time...

So here we are. the current covers are dark, mysterious and very different from anything I've ever done. So far they are selling well enough, but we will see...

Twisted Recipes: Twisted Recipe #7 Dat Salsa

Twisted Recipes: Twisted Recipe #7 Dat Salsa: I LOVE SALSA! I am a beast when it comes to salsa. A very picky beast. That's why I've never made my own. It would destroy me as ...

More Ambition Than Time

I'm one of those people who has more ambition than time in the day. I'm an ideas man. Business ideas come to me all the time. Book ideas come to me all the time...damn it if I don't always have a pen and paper on me.
I always have balls in the air, so many balls I almost feel the testosterone... You could almost say that when something interrupts my me-time, it's kicking me in the balls. So painful.
Right now my balls include: Writing Toxic, (which means much research and marketing, oh and writing, duh) and Developing my dream business, Rainy Day Cafe, a vegetarian friendly cafe with a play area (which means I'm writing the business plan, creating the menu and doing financing research) ...You know, in between running a household and raising two small children, infant Bram and the completely insane 4 year old, Morrighan...

Look at Bram's face...He already knows his sissy is crazy. :-P