End of Year Post and New Cover Art

It's the end of another year and time for reflection. While the last year has not been productive for me writing wise due to illness, I have over the last couple of months started to write a lot more. I am working on multiple projects and have two new pieces of cover art to share.

Two very different stories, but I think variety is the spice of life. Neutral Shades is coming out sometime in Feb 2018. I Get What I Want is coming out in Jan 2018. I will post updates as I get them such as blurbs and buy links.

I wish each and everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday, Happy Hanukkah or great day if you don't celebrate. Thanks for all the support. See you all in 2018!

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Another Case of Plagiarism

It's come to light this week that another author has been caught plagiarizing other authors work. The author in question writes m/m romance and was rather popular within that community with good sales or so I have been told.

It's stealing. There's no other word for it. I don't understand how she could mislead her friends and fans like that. Also why did she think she would get away with it?

I don't usually write posts about stuff like this and I try to stay away from the drama that sometimes pops up in the m/m romance community, but this all just stuck a nerve with me.

I do hope she sees that what's she's done was wrong. I also hope that she at least tries to clear this up with the author(s) she plagiarized. That would be the decent thing to do, but time will tell as this all plays out.

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Is this a sign of things to come?

A lot of writers are finding moderate success with self publishing, mainly e books through such venues as CreateSpace, LuLu and a couple others.

Recently on Absolutewrite(the best writers forum), low sales have been discussed in regards to e books with smaller e book publishers. And when I mean low, I mean low. One author openenly cited sixty-nine books in a year, which is rather bad in my opinion. This was with a press who while not at the top of the list, is also not at the bottom.

Novellas in particular can be a hard sell. But my question is, why not publish them on your own? Especially if sales are only reaching double digits in a lengthy period of time.

Now don't get me wrong, I understand that it's a heck of a lot of work. As you can imagine you are responsible for everything including the cover art, editing, formatting etc...

What are your thoughts? Opinion? I'm interested to know.