Daniel Thompson

The main problem in Oklahoma has less to do with the wind and more to do with the wind ferrets that come with it. They’re a serious problem.

Like, we all want to give the indigenous species room to exist and do their thing, but the ecological ramifications of having wind ferrets in your state is something the local government has really…[Read more]

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE EZRA

Oh yeah, there’s an explanation within the episode. It’s no dreadful thing at all; the podcast and KP are still buds, and you’ll see episodes on Kingdom Pen still. And the show itself won’t be changing at all, cept for the name and the logo. 😛

YES, everything will still be available on iTunes and on soundcloud, though the soundcloud link may change when the title changes. I’ll try to make access to all of that as easy as possible moving forward.

And Hope, there’s 2 places where you can sign up. You can hit that follow button on soundcloud IF you have a soundcloud account. If you…[Read more]

Yeah, I liked For the Temple too. Beric the Britain was pretty good as well, those are the two I really remember.

Not to say I don’t like his stuff; I’ve really enjoyed a number of his writing. It’s just that the more I read, the more patterns I see, and the less enjoyable it is over time.

Yeh . . . but all Henty books follow a very specific plot pattern with very similar characters who generally don’t have archs, and the key to any battle fought in any one of his books is DON’T BREAK FORMATION, and there are no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

Any marketing these days has almost got to be as creative as the book itself. The more formulaic the marketing, the less impact it seems to have, at least in my experience.

This also has to be paired with low expectations. Self-published books very rarely make lots of money, so you can’t quit your day job. And that’s okay, especially at this…[Read more]