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First Book This is an exciting time for me as a writer. My second novel is ready to format and upload for publishing as soon as I get my final cover design. Thinking about my second novel reminds me of when we had our second child. Our first child came into this world fourteen months… Read more: Publishing a New Book Is Like Seeing A Newborn Baby

Books and Authors I like As a young man, I enjoyed reading science fiction and fantasy. Books like Dune, Dune Novels – The Official Dune Website, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Lord of the Rings – Tolkien Gateway, are favorites I have read multiple times. But not all the books I enjoyed… Read more: Authors Whose Books I Enjoy and Inspired My Latest Novel

The Money Pit Last weekend, I had lunch with my son-in-law, one of my grandsons, and my daughter’s fiancee. During the meal, part of the conversation revolved around the fiancee’s progress on restoring an old pickup truck. Whenever he thought the end was near, something else would come up. For example, he changed from drum… Read more: Experiencing the Self-Publishing Money Pit

Last year, before publishing my book, I decided to start my own publishing company, Wolfstar Publishing. Listing a publisher on the Amazon product page, (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKM1CCFL), appears more professional. (At least that is what I read.) I registered the company, Wolfstar Publishing, with the state of Colorado as a sole proprietorship since I didn’t anticipate a… Read more: Self Publishing an Expensive Hobby

 Naive about writing When I decided to write my book, I thought it would be easy. I know I have talked about it here in the past. When I started, I was naïve about the difficulty involved in writing a book. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKM1CCFL) The first two years of my retirement involved learning how to write understandably… Read more: The Depressing Naivety Of A First Time Self-published Author