The Writings of Terrance A. Crow
Science Fiction Can Show a Way Forward
I’ve had a side project in the back of my mind for a while now. It involved Vellum, which formats manuscripts for ebooks and paperbacks. It reduced the time it took me to produce the paperback for Amazon from three hours to about thirty minutes, so I knew it was capable. Could it handle my […]
The older I get, the less inclined I am to make a big deal out of holidays. Sure, it’s fun to get together with family. That’s the point, after all! But this year, I did want to get a little retrospective about how productive I’ve been. Also, I experienced a first this week — I […]
Last week, I talked about how I’d checked a box that I ought not to have. The net effect was that my books did not show up in Amazon searches from the main page. Did fixing that have any measurable impact on sales? It’s close to the holidays, so I should expect more Real Life […]
I learned something important about Amazon this week. No, Amazon didn’t do anything wrong — at least not as a corporation. The situation makes me wonder how many sales I lost, especially early in my writing career. Also, I tried to keep moving forward with Dreams of Deucalion Book 3: Bait and Bleed — in […]
This week, I learned to have even more empathy for my alpha readers. In fact, I have concerns about their reaction to the state of Dreams of Deucalion Book 1: Special Recon, and I haven’t even heard from them yet! I tried a new approach to sketching the plot for Dreams of Deucalion Book 3: […]