I had my doubts this day would ever arrive (it’s been a rough seven months in many, many respects), but I finally scrounged up enough oomph to blast through the last 20,000 words or so and reached the finish line of the first full draft of New Book. (I wrote a similar post about 10KH on […]
The category of Shit Never to Be Done presented today falls under the heading of “show, don’t tell” in the grandest sense of the meaning. A lot of things, frankly, aren’t important enough to be shown, in which case I’m all for briefly telling what needs to be known and moving on to showing the
I’ve been designing more covers lately than writing, during which I stumbled across a shinier piece of stock art I could use for WCAD. The ebook is working through the system as I post. Paperback refresh coming soon.
Several people have whipped through 10KH already and asked something along the following lines. Q: What’s the next book about, and when can we expect it? A: As to what, I don’t talk about works in progress for a multitude of reasons, but I’ll give you a visual hint. PORTION OF A COVER THAT ENDED
On November 1, 2016, a 2812 KB bouncing baby book was born. Please join me in welcoming the new addition to the Benton family! *noisemakers!* *confetti!* *who’s going to clean up this mess!* Thank you to the 120 brave souls who preordered, almost all of you without the benefit of a preview. As a result
I’m not going to do a walkthrough for 10KH because I was substantially less cowardly while writing it and don’t have guilt driving me to explain every word I wrote (or didn’t). I have gotten some questions (okay, one so far), though, so for the sake of having something to call blog content, I’ll presume
I know, I know. Ebooks are real books. It still feels different to hold your physical book in your hands, so I’m going to show you pictures like I just had a baby. Look at its cute little wraparound cover! PHOTO OF TEN THOUSAND HOURS PAPERBACK LOST IN BLOG MIGRATION! And its adorable graphic
I set up the preorder for Ten Thousand Hours with Amazon for November 1. There’s no Look Inside (thank god — the draft they have as a placeholder isn’t fit for human consumption) and only 10 pages so far are sort of ready to post here as an excerpt (not worth bothering until I get
I hate writing book descriptions. They are not descriptions; they are ads. And they are not written; they are designed following analysis of a target entity to manipulate money out of that target entity. This bothers me for a number of reasons.
Ten Thousand Hours is now in the hands (or at least the inboxes) of Familiar Editor and Unfamiliar Editor, heralding the arrival of the certainty I’ve wasted the past year of my life. It’s a vulnerable period, being separated from any book for the first time, with the added strain of the separation being for