Tag Archives: EMBER

Last pre-Halloween check-in

Well, here we are a day before Halloween, the denouement to my two-week-long blog tour in support of SHADA. I got the last interview and guest blog done on Friday, and now all I’m doing is updating my tour schedule with the live links as the events go live, for the rest of the tour, …

October 30, 2011 – 3:55 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80 | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Sunday thoughts

Sometimes I think I’d trade in the whole indie thing for a three-book trad contract that pays me in a nice, high-level Samsung home theatre system. Not really, but there are days when I do wish I was living off an advance and letting expert booksellers do the hard work of moving units off the …

October 16, 2011 – 3:25 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80 | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Sunday check-in for ROW 80 Round 4

Well, it’s that time again. Time to check in on how I’m doing against my stated goals for this round of ROW80. Let’s review: IN PROGRESS 1) Complete guest blogs and interviews and various other content for SHADA blog tour. I have something like six items in the bag and nine remaining. My (Teen) Book …

October 10, 2011 – 4:42 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80 | Tagged , | Comments (1)

First ROW80 Round 4 Check-In

Since my first post, stating my goals, I have not had much time to work on them in the obvious ways. Why? Because getting organized first is always a good idea, but it’s time-consuming. For example, I spent a fair amount of time today organizing my blog tour schedule, then posting it to my Web …

October 5, 2011 – 1:34 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80 | Tagged , | Comments (7)

My Round 4 ROW80 Goals

I’ve been dreading this first post, because it means decision time has arrived. It’s time for me to actually decide what my next project is going to be, for sure. Of course, it’s a good time for deciding. SHADA is published in eBook form. It’s nearly ready to order a proof copy of from CreateSpace. …

October 3, 2011 – 12:53 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80 | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Off to the editor…

My second book, a novella-length piece that kicks off the EMBER COLE series, known as SHADA, is now in the hands of my editor. I worked marathon hours this week to make sure I got the piece off to him before the weekend. And I succeeded. The manuscript when out on Thursday, September 15 at …

September 16, 2011 – 3:16 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80 | 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)

If you could speak to anyone who has died…

“If you could speak to someone who’s dead, anyone at all, who would it be?” This is a question that a lot of kids ask each other at one point or another. I know when I was a very young teen, I briefly went through that phase. Often, it’s just a fun socialization game. Other …

June 5, 2011 – 4:50 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Moving into short novels for a while

Now that MOST LIKELY is out, I have one book at $2.99, but no high-demand books at the $0.99 price point, so rather than going back to EMBER immediately, I’m going to side-track a bit and work on a couple short novels, between 20,000 and 30,000 words, that I can feel good about pricing at …

June 5, 2011 – 4:43 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Kindle | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

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)

Nearing mid-point

As I’m working away on EMBER, I’m now approaching the mid-point of my novel. Characters are established and in place. Threats are out there, establishing their “threatiness.” Interesting stuff has been going down, but now, soon, the action is going to ramp up in a big way. This is where a novel can either rise …

February 28, 2011 – 2:31 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity, Kindle | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Project after EMBER?

I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to write after I complete EMBER. A lot depends on my state of mind… and by STATE of mind, I’m not referring to Blue Cross North Carolina, nosiree! I have several choices. I am embedding some potential spin-off characters in EMBER, so that I could continue …

February 4, 2011 – 12:51 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)