(Author edit: November 5. I added a blog post to my poem) Say that five times fast. That’s OK. Take your time. Try again. I’ll wait… We’ll just have to add that to “Peter Piper” and “She Sells Seashells,” won’t we? I decided to reach out to some more book…

Long before Elon changed Twitter to X, there was Xmas. Now this change didn’t have any advertisers jumping ship or lead to a rich man telling them to “Go f%*& themselves”, but it is an interesting story that my help you one day on Jeopardy when the final category is…

Newsletters. You might dislike them, but you put up with one to get the free book and promptly unsubscribe. I lovingly call them “Freeders”. This is not an insult. I respect people’s choices, that’s why I have an unsubscribe link*. If you didn’t like my book, fair enough. there are…

[Author’s Note: My posts come from my blog and I put the best ones here. Want to see what didn’t make the cut? (http://linesbyleon.com/blog/) Music, cartoons, and other stuff.] I don’t know what this style of book ad is called but I do see them quite often. So, when I…

I came across a Twitter post the other day, yesterday to be precise, and it made me think. The word ‘said’ can be overused in writing, so I try to use other ways to indicate who is speaking. Placing an action before or after dialogue is an easy way to…

Sometimes I can sit down and bang out a story in under ten minutes. It helps if it’s only 225 words, though. Disasterville Ontino and Havan stepped out of the house to watch the water creeping up the driveway and over the grass. The sky was dark and gray, but it…

A bit dramatic, don’t you think? Well, I made you look, right? At the beginning of February, I received an email indicating that book one of my sci-fi trilogy was selected to be enrolled in Amazon’s Prime Reading program, meaning it would be available for free to any Prime members…

I came across a Facebook post asking for recommendations for fantasy/sci-fi series. I recognized the book of an author I follow on Twitter and occasionally exchange retweets of each other’s posts. I took a screenshot and sent it to him, and he replied that it made his day. I follow…

This could be a very long post but I’ll make it short. It’s hard to be a multi-genre author because you have to divide your marketing efforts if you write under one name or many. My mailing list started after I published my poetry book, as I set out to…