Author Archives: dichroic

Still working on website. Had a successful (I think she is, anyway) author kindly offer to answer questions and provide some insight into Amazon tools – problem is, Amazon will only tell you how successful a book is right this … Continue reading →

I can’t even blame self-publishing for this – even when I traditionally published my first book, the publisher didn’t do all that much promotion. So all the stuff I’m doing now, I should probably have done. (For comparison, the current … Continue reading →

I was going to write, “My book has reached its first milestone,” but it’s not really that, is it? There were so many: enough words written to know I’d be able to do this book thing; halfway through; first draft … Continue reading →

I had the most exciting thing happen today. I woke up, checked my Amazon book sales page the way I used to check work email in the morning back before I retired, and found I’d sold something like 12 books … Continue reading →

At Home in Percival (henceforth, AHIP): 23 ratings on Amazon so far! I don’t know why, but somehow 20 felt like a threshold. I don’t know if there’s a tipping point where Amazon starts to recommend your book to readers … Continue reading →

It turns out, the first week after you self-publish a book on Amazon is basically about checking (with ridiculous frequency) to see if you’ve gotten any new comments, then slipping to Amazon’s reporting page to see if you’ve sold any … Continue reading →

Someone asked me about the process of writing this book, and once I wrote it out for her, I realized I wanted to save this for future reference (I should really make a flowchart!) Amazon US | Amazon UK

I think I may have the blog fixed. I doubt I’ve any readers at all left, but just in case, I need to make an announcement: my first novel, A Home in Percival, will be available on Amazon within the … Continue reading →

The date is August 10, 2025, which makes it six years since my last update. Life has changed greatly; Ted and I have both retired, we now live at our lake house full-time, and I’ve completed writing my first novel … Continue reading →

Because whatever other blog-writing I let fall, I will not skip the annual light-in-darkness Chanukah poem. This one is bleaker than usual. My life is OK, if a little lonely and circumscribed by pandemic, etc, but I have an online … Continue reading →