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Most authors who have some books and stories published will want to know what happens overall with respect to sales. So do I. I used a spreadsheet for a long time but that became so huge and clunky that I needed a better way. I didn't find one, so I made one. Being a programmer it was easy to come up with the framework for my own sales tracker program. Note: I did not have earnings and income from the…

Yes. Today I brought out a new book. Rhys. It became a huge one, but Yahoo Groups ended and I couldn't save the text I had written for the story. As this story was growing into a part of a larger 'world', where Rhys interacted with many characters that others on that author mailing list were writing. I think that went on for at least 2 years, and the ending was quite impressive. You may be able to imagine how…

Another blog post. I'm not good at them, it seems, but then, there's never much to report about writing. It's writing this story, then that story, it seems. Today is different. Today I'm excited to tell you about a new story I've written. Okay, I'm excited about nearly all my stories, but this one is quite remarkable, as it deals with the now and ancient Egypt. Why am I so excited about this story? Because it's so intense. It jumps…

I wonder if anyone is interested in signing up for a monthly newsletter, where I sometimes put out some things. It will be a very low volume affair, about new posts on the site, progress in writing, books I'm reading, and sometimes a suggestion for books by other indie authors. Lately I've found Facebook to be very limiting in reaching readers. Only when I donate significant amounts of dollars or euros to them, will they make my posts there be…

Yes, I've been very quiet here for the last few days. Weeks. Okay, months. I've also been very busy with lots of things. One of them is "work", that hobby which eats up so much time. Next to that, I acquired a new hobby. It looks like a harp, sounds like a harp and... yes, is a harp. Nera was very helpful in making this a short video... In writing parts, there is some progress too. I've dug up an…

As things happen, I came up with a new witch. This happened by accident, as I was looking at covers for stories. As with "Clara's Eyes", I saw a cover and I had to have it. I had no story yet, but that was also the case with Clara's Eyes, and I think that came out as a great story. I'm not sure how this new witch will work out. Will it become a series as long as Hilda's? Who…

Dear reader. A while ago I started drawing. It's been about 3 or 4 weeks now. I'm not yet good at it, but you have to start somewhere, right? One of the characters I came up with is Hexia. A young witch. Of course, a bunch of ideas came up, and I started writing. I got up to some 800 words now, and I want to share them here. I wonder what you think of this start. And here is…

Welcome to part 2 of this blog set about Manuskript. In case you missed part 1, it's here. We saw how to create a new story, and we viewed a bit of the outline and the editor. If we open the Summary option, we see this: I already entered a Situation, to make it a bit more 'alive'. At this point, we can write a one sentence summary of the story. The basic ingredient. We're not restricted to one line, but…

Manuskript. Most people don't know it. It's software for writers. Software with lots of options, while being a lot simpler than Scrivener. I know loads of authors live inside Scrivener, and hooray for them, but it's too much, big, complex, confusing for me. Read about Manuskript etc at their homepage. There are screenshots and a list of features. This post, and perhaps another one, will go into how I use it, to give you an idea. Note: Manuskript is Free…

You may have noticed the extra menu item at the top of the site. "My Bookshop". Yes, I set one up. It doesn't have all the books yet, because getting that in place is a lot of work. Buying from that bookshop circumvents the big players like Amazon, Google, Kobo etc, which leaves a little more revenue per sale for me. Well, except for the free ones, of course. The shop carried "EPUB" files, the type that is not 1…