I’m not writing contemporary romance anymore, but I needed to do a trial run of some processes to work out the kinks before the fantasy romance is ready to go, so it seemed like a good occasion to make a bundle of the three contemporaries I self-published as Ren Benton. Thus, I bring you the […]
I’ve wanted a brighter cover for 10KH since about five minutes after publication. While I was changing that, I made some minor tweaks to WCAD to make the text less flat and help with brand consistency. Someday maybe I’ll upgrade to mantitty, but I have a really hard time finding stock photos of men that
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
November is a long way away, but this part of the project came together quickly once I had a title change, so I thought I’d post it as evidence things are moving forward. ORIGINAL COVER OF TEN THOUSAND HOURS LOST IN BLOG MIGRATION! It felt kind of empty on the bottom until I drew
What comes after What Comes After Dessert and when will it be out? The plan is to release New Book on November 1, 2016. (This is, of course, subject to change due to unforeseen disasters or miracles that occur in the meantime, but that’s the date I’m aiming for.) It’s about lousy marriage proposals, the