The Summerizing

by | May 12, 2023 | Life and all That

Time to close the homestead up for the seasonMy move from Orlando to Tallahassee, FL in 2005 happened in stages. I was destitute and a lot of my belongings had been destroyed by the 2004 hurricanes, so it was very much a case of starting over from scratch.One early...

Towards a Post-scarcity Sales Model

by | May 10, 2023 | Life and all That

On KU Readers, “free reads,” and SubscriptionsDisclaimer: To be clear upfront, this isn’t a criticism of anyone’s choices on how to run their own business. These are some musings about my own business that I had over the past weekend during the...

Workflow for authors…no wait, come back!

by | May 3, 2023 | Life and all That

we are our own worst enemies, istgAuthors generally don’t think too much about workflow past “getting the thing written.” We fly (or crawl) through the writing and editing process, then put together everything else as we go along. We tend to clump our business into...

Writing, on brand

by | Apr 26, 2023 | Life and all That

Where your intrepid author is left in the dust by “write to market”Recently my friend Gina and I have been talking a lot about (and working a lot towards) revitalizing our careers as authors, which means a lot of talking about the changing nature of...

Here, There, and Everywhere…

by | Apr 24, 2023 | Life and all That

…or, Why is KimBoo Suddenly Showing Up in All the Feeds?Short answer: I’m spending a lot of time spreading myself around as I gear up the re-launching of my career as a fiction author. There is my House of York author platform, and there is this-here substack,...

The times they are a'changing…

by | Apr 22, 2023 | Life and all That

worldbuilding nerds, unite!…and by “the times” I mean “my wiki farm.”If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry. It means the wikis I use to keep track of my world building.I have some very complex world-building for most of my stories. It’s an addiction,...