Out of Office

My posts will be less frequent for the rest of the month. I’m traveling in China. Every URL with ‘blog’ in it is blocked. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, all blocked. The New York Times published a story on Chinese corruption recently–you guessed...
A Nice Italian Girl

A Nice Italian Girl

Anson gestured as he spoke, with his wide, pale palms facing upward. “Jon, you think Matt’s this cool, calculating wonder boy, but he’s got another side to him. His family is first generation Italian, very traditional, very old school. If it was just his mama putting...

The Big Book of How to Publish a Book

If you don’t own this book, buy it: I learned about Jeff Herman’s book at a writers conference last year, from a pleasant, soft-spoken, gray-haired man who makes his living writing erotica. The book lists publishing houses by genre, their editors by...

A Face in the Crowd

I feel like Waldo. I’m wearing my striped shirt, my goofy stocking cap and my horned-rims and I’m still nearly invisible, even if you’re looking for me. Have you ever seen the movie A Face in the Crowd? Radio producer Marcia Jeffries (Patricia...

Friends and Family

I love my family. They love me. They account for 90% of my book sales–so far. And they’ve written some awesome reviews of The Girlfriend Experience. Their praise is so effusive it turns my head. Of course, I think it’s well deserved. Our side...

The Blog Circuit

The topic today is Search Engine Optimization–SEO. It’s best done organically. That means I need to get the book out in the Internet, in places people look. In my previous post you read about my pitiful attempts at creating an Internet presence, including...

Genesis of a Story

Which came first, the hooker or the spy? There are a lot of elements in The Girlfriend Experience, some peripheral and some central to the plot. The response from readers suggests that the technology dominates the story. That’s a little disappointing to me since...