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Fun Videos From November

Fun Videos

Fun Videos From November – I love these videos! Which is your favorite? Tell me, and I’ll give you a book! Click here.

Or, you can join my newsletter and get my free newsletter, with the best videos I find each month and free audiobooks! Just click now. Here are some of my audiobooks:

Fun Videos Life After Life Chronicles March Fourth
Enjoy all four novels in audiobook, paperback, or Kindle format!

And here’s your first fun video:

Robot Chicken and Emperor Palpatine Parody

No doubt I’m the last to discover Robot Chicken and its hilarious parody of ‘Star Wars’, but I laughed as hard as anyone. Did you know about this? Did you like it? As always, personal comments and emails get a free book. Click here.

Fun Videos – Your Second Video

Here you have another type of fun: fun history. You don’t believe there is such a thing? Take a look at these color photos from a hundred years ago and be amazed.

All the people in the photos are dead, yet they still seem alive and like people you can meet on the street.

What Is Your Third Fun Video?

Imagine life as a video game. Now imagine you’re playing it as any animal you wish. Which would you choose? If we narrow it down to playing a fish, which would you pick? This video looks at fish as characters in a video game. Who do you think is best? Give me an answer and I’ll give you a book, if you click here.

Fish as video game characters

Are You Not Entertained?

It’s hard to listen to this and not be enertained.

I love jazz! Did you know that?

I like jazz so much, I’ll give you another jazz video in a completely different style.

Fun Videos – Final Comments

Fun Videos
Preview of a tiny portion of my next book Secret Supers in Space

My book Secret Supers in Space is coming out December 9th! Join my newsletter and find out the final cover today! Click now to get the cover and much more! The newsletter also has videos just like these, plus free book offers from me and other authors.

You can also pre-order the book from Amazon. Click right here.

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Cover Hints! A New Book is Coming!

Villain's Vacation cover What is it like?

Cover Hints! Wait, what’s the book? Secret Supers in Space. It’s the third book in my Secret Supers series (try saying that ten times fast) that started with:

Cover Hints

Jeremy Gentle fell flat on his face at therapy. That was normal since he had cerebral palsy. But his new superpower wasn’t normal.

Then things got weirder when his best friend, Dan Elanga, got a different superpower. But Dan was still blind.

Kayla Verdera and Aubrey Wilcosky, two girls in their middle-school special ed class, discovered they too had new superpowers. Kayla was mute and needed a walker. Aubrey lost two legs and used crutches. But they were as powerful as the boys.

What should the four friends do? Jeremy knew if the word got out, it’d be a media circus. Then they started fighting crime, as the Secret Supers. Who knew a disability could be a perfect disguise? No one would ever think of disabled kids as superheroes. Then they ran into problems they never expected.

Get your autographed copy by clicking here! Or, get your copy from Amazon and pay more here.

The Book Cover Before the Cover Hints

My second book in the Secret Supers series is:

Villain's Vacation cover What is it like? Cover Hint
Villain’s Vacation. Click to get your autographed copy!

Four disabled seventh-graders with superpowers take a vacation at Coaster World. They need a break from fighting criminals. Ever since the beginning of the school year when they acquired their unusual abilities, they’ve been training and using those powers to fight crime in their town.

Little do they know the arch-villain they recently defeated also loves coasters and is vacationing at Coaster World. Worse, the villain wants revenge. Nothing less than turning these teens to a life of crime will satisfy.

Can Jeremy, Dan, Kayla, and Aubrey withstand the villain’s attacks? Or will they become Super Villains?

You can only find out by reading the adventure ‘Villain’s Vacation’.

You can also get the book at Amazon by clicking here.

This is the same artist who did the third cover, Sean “Fuzzy” Flanagan.

The First of Three Cover Hints — Finally!

Cover Hints

This is the first cover sketch I got. It’s NOT the final cover. Fuzzy did five more sketches and then the final cover.

Click to see other covers by Sean Flanagan.

Do you want more hints?

Of course, you do!

See below.

Or, you can tell me what you think by clicking here.

Or, email me at [email protected]

Another Hint!

Here’s a piece of the background from the real final cover:

Do you want another hint?

Here it comes!

Cover Hints

This is also from the final cover. It’s part of the bottom strip. It shows the Earth in the background.

My cover reveal is coming! Subscribe to my newsletter by clicking here so you’ll be the first to see it.

You’ll also get free audiobooks and ebooks and short stories as a member of my newsletter!

When will the cover come out? My next newsletter will be November 20th. Maybe then. If not, then the next newsletter is December 4th.

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My Sixth-Year Anniversary as a Self-Published Author

My Sixth-Year Anniversary as a Self-Published Author–how did I do it? How is it going so far? Hold onto your socks, because I’ll tell you all about it.

On October 31st, 2016, I published this book:

Get Your Zombie Turkeys Laughter Sixth-Year Anniversary
Zombie Turkeys front cover. Click to get a copy!

Sam Melvin, an underachieving e-reporter from a small town, changes forever when he meets turkeys that won’t stay dead. You can shoot ’em, chop ’em, burn ’em—they come back stronger. The undead plague of poultry spreads uncontrollably, rocking the whole country. . .

From Zombie Turkeys’ Blurb

So, what happened next? What happened before the publication?

In the beginning . . .

Caterpillar forcibly retired me in October 2015. I didn’t want to rust on the pile of retirement, so I decided I would start writing a book. But I needed a topic. I wanted something light and funny.

We got a new turkey fryer and I tested it out. I brought in the fried turkey on a platter and said, “Imagine if this turkey came back to life!” Then someone said, “It’d be a zombie turkey.”

Only Three Days Left: Get Your Free Book My Sixth-Year Anniversary
A turkey who missed the free book offer. Click to get your free book.

“Eureka! That’s it! That’s my book! Zombie turkeys! A whole apocalypse of them. It’ll be a parody of all zombie books ever written.”

My Sixth-Year Anniversary – What Happened Next?

I wrote about 48,000 words in November in the book for NaNoWriMo. Then I finished it in December. Then I edited it: six times over until March. I decided I needed an editor–and got her, Dori Harrell.

Then I decided to learn about publishing. I read about six books. I also took a writing course at my alma mater, Bradley university. Who knew point-of-view was so important?

I created a project plan for self-publishing. Then I decided to publish through Amazon, since it was easier and cheaper.

I went back and forth with my editor about six times. The novel was ready to publish, with 54,000 words.

Oops! I forgot to get a cover illustration! I needed one done and it was July 2016.

The Making of the Zombie Turkeys Cover

Fortunately, I already wrote a blog post about this process. Click the title or here to read it.

My Sixth-Year Anniversary
A cover draft. Click to see more.

Oh, I forgot. I also worked with my illustrator Sean “Fuzzy” Flanagan on my chapter icons. Read about it here: How we Made Zombie Turkeys Chapter Icons.

My Sixth-Year Anniversary – Format Editing

Text formatting–so simple–NOT! Readers expect books to be formatted a certain way. If you break the rules–like not starting your book on the right-hand page–you look like a rank amateur.

Which I was. But I didn’t want to look that way. I only got one chance to make a first impression. So I hired Rik Hall. He’s fast. He’s experienced. And he made my book in both paperback and ebook formats.

Finally I was ready. I uploaded my file to Amazon and ordered my proof copy. I set my launch date for October 31st, 2016 and ordered fifty paper copies.

My Sixth-Year Anniversary
My first copy. Click to get yours!

I was ready to launch. What happened next? Read my next blog to find out!