How to Get Your Book Onto Pinellas Library Shelves
Library talks are the easiest events a local author can get, and the audiences engage harder than bookstore crowds. Getting into the collection is a separate process with different rules.
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Book MarketingKerouac’s Last Address, Twenty Minutes From My Desk
Jack Kerouac died in St. Petersburg in 1969 at forty-seven, in a concrete block ranch house in Disston Heights, leaving an estate valued at ninety-one dollars. On the Road has never stopped selling.
Book MarketingThe East Lake Community Library, and the Room That Taught Me Craft
The East Lake Community Library in Palm Harbor is where the East Lake Writers' Workshop met, in a side room off the main floor, and where I sat every other week for years while Deanna Bennett ran the table.
Book MarketingThe Clearwater Main Library, and Why Writers Should Know Its Hours
The Clearwater Main Library is a landmark building with maker studios, a digitization station, and a harbor view. It is also closed on weekends, and part of it may become something else.
Book MarketingThe Safety Harbor Library, and Why I Keep Going Back
The Safety Harbor Public Library began in 1938 with a hundred books and $2.35 raised at a tea party. It is now open seven days a week and is the best free workspace in town for anyone writing a book.
Book MarketingContent Decay: Why Your Best Posts Quietly Stop Working
Old posts lose traffic quietly, on two separate clocks: the slow slide down search rankings, and the newer one where a page keeps its ranking and stops being cited in AI answers. Here is how to audit both and repair…
Behind the BookBehind the Book: Family on Ice
I wanted to write prehistoric people as they were, not as primitives. Here is how the real Toba supervolcano and a single family became Family on Ice.
Behind the BookBehind the Book: Complications
Complications was a deliberate turn away from my usual military and science fiction. Here is why I set out to write a book women would enjoy, and what it taught me.
Behind the BookBehind the Book: Peacekeeper: To What End Peace
I started Peacekeeper when I was fourteen and finished it forty-five years later. Here is the story behind an immortal admiral, an empire's peace, and the price of both.
GhostwritingGhostwriting About IoT: Turning Invisible Expertise Into a Book
IoT expertise is invisible by design, and invisible expertise wins nothing. Here is what an IoT book can be about, how ghostwriting handles deep technical material and NDAs, and who reads these books once they exist.
Behind the BookBehind the Book: Shield of Ashes
Shield of Ashes asks what a real nuclear war would look like in a multipolar world. Here is how a short story about one launch became the biggest book I have written.
Behind the BookBehind the Book: Unlikely Hero
Unlikely Hero started with a single image, a nuclear bomb near Los Angeles, and became a two-character story about a criminal, a cop, and one impossible choice. Here is how it was built.
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