Category Archives: writing

Inertia

I’m starting to make a little money at this writing thing. It’s not a lot. Certainly not enough to live on, not yet. But… a little money. There are actually changes to my numbers when I check KDP, most of the time. That’s cool. What’s not cool? The reaction I’m experiencing. As excited as the …

December 22, 2011 – 4:32 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , | Comments (1)

The big decision

Every time I sit down to work on EMBER, I face a big decision. Do I sink more time into EMBER, which will take a few months to complete, or do I let myself sidetrack into some short fiction that I can put up a lot quicker, expanding my offerings more swiftly, so that I …

December 21, 2011 – 1:00 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

Another Sunday update

Well, I keep being too busy to post mid-week updates, so that’s gotta be a good thing somehow, right? Seems to be. The big news since my last update is that I finally have SHADA out in trade paperback. As much as my livelihood depends on the steady sales of my novels in electronic book …

December 4, 2011 – 3:01 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80, writing | Tagged , , | Comments (4)

On the Oregon Trail, Part 3: Percolatin’ In Portland

Well, here we are, eight days later, and the move is (more or less) complete. We’ve managed our funds well enough not to need a check city cash advance, which is fortunate, and completely a result of my wife being the financial brains of the marriage. She kept us on budget. We arrived in Portland …

August 29, 2011 – 2:49 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80, writing | Tagged , | Comments (2)

On the Oregon Trail, Part 2: Finally in Oregon, but not quite home

Well, we’ve had some adventures since last check-in. On Tuesday, we headed out from Keystone, SD and made what turned out to be our longest day of travel, bar none: 480 miles through Wyoming into Montana, stopping at Livingston, MT, for the night. There are good and bad qualities about our Montana experience. First, it …

August 26, 2011 – 1:59 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

The move is upon us

Those faithfully following my blog (and thank you so much if you’re kind enough to do so) know I’ve been talking about moving my family west to Oregon for a few months now. Well, the time has come. The time is (almost) now. As I write this post, we’re two days away from heading out, …

August 19, 2011 – 5:32 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80, writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Marketing is almost as hard as writing

One thing I’ve decided in the first month after I began marketing MOST LIKELY, my first eBook, is that marketing a novel is hard work. That doesn’t mean I won’t do it; marketing is a necessity for an indie. But one almost needs an online business degree to be really good at it. I think …

June 24, 2011 – 6:36 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Solid progress

Well, as my novel MOST LIKELY is at the editor’s, I’ve had time to catch up on a lot of other obligations while listing to Johnny Cash on my iPod nano headphones. That includes beta-reading a novel, creating a cover for a cover client, performing some eBook formatting duties as a subcontractor, and catching up …

May 9, 2011 – 12:34 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Next project?

Once MOST LIKELY is complete, the big question everyone’s been asking me of late is what I’ll write next. The truth is, I have about four strong projects to choose from, so it’s almost hard to say. About the only thing I can guarantee is that it won’t be some essay on something esoteric like …

May 1, 2011 – 4:17 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Cover for MOST LIKELY finalized

As I announced late last week over on Craig-Hansen.com, the cover for my first novel, MOST LIKELY, has been finalized. The design, provided by Glendon Haddix of Streetlight Graphics, is both eye-catching and interesting… even if I do say so myself as author-publisher. One thing my novel is not about is electronic pickpocketing; it’s actually …

May 1, 2011 – 4:06 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)

In the midst of rewrites

Well, I’m in the thick of re-writing and revising MOST LIKELY for the next couple days at least. I have great feedback from all my beta-readers and now it’s time to implement the best of their ideas. Gotta love that. The nice thing about the eBook model is that they will be basically for sale …

April 21, 2011 – 3:00 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Starting to get some cover work

Over on my main author’s blog, I recently hung out my shingle to design some basic book covers at very low cost for first-time eAuthors like myself. I’m starting to get a few clients, which is nice, considering I don’t get any unemployment and since I’m not injured, there’s no need to fill out a …

April 11, 2011 – 1:11 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)