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June 22, 2009 0 Comments

Working for an anthology

I've been asked by PG Holyfield to write a short story for a podcast anthology set in the world of his novel, Murder at Avedon Hill. I'm thrilled at the opportunity, as PG is, first of all, a fantastic guy, and second - a wonderful promoter.

As I progress through the planning stages of the story, I'll keep detailed notes and examples over at the private Zero2Novel forums about what I did and why. Hopefully that will serve as a good example of what you can do, or spark more ideas for your own stories. Of course, I'm asking for your opinions on the posts as well! That's what we're here for - to help each other out.

I've come up with a story idea and sent it his way, so we'll see what his opinions are, and whether the idea fits within his world as good as I think it does. There are one or two points that I need clarification on from him (and one is a huge one that could break the idea if it doesn't work).

If you're a member of the Zero2Novel course, then I hope this will help you in your own writing journey. If you're not, and you've always wanted to write a novel, then what are you waiting for? Learn how to write your novel today.

April 12, 2009 0 Comments

Capt Black's Sea Dogges

The band that I'm in now, Captain Black's Sea Dogges, recently returned from New Orleans. A great friend of the band shot a couple of the shows in HD, so the Captain has been putting together some videos for a couple of our original songs. I wanted to post them here so that you could enjoy the music, also. While I didn't help write these songs, I do get the pleasure of singing them. Some great music here, and we're putting together more.

Hope you enjoy them:

The Sea

Tierra del Fuego

April 01, 2009 0 Comments

March Update

Quiet, But Not Calm

That describes my life right now.

All has been calm on the website front, but that doesn't mean that nothing is going on. I do apologize for the lack of updates on Raising The Sun over the last couple of weeks. That will pick up again next week, and I hope to have it completed within the next 2 weeks.

What's been holding me up? Yup. I heard you asking that. Glad you did, though. Two things: Work, and Play.

Work

We've been forging headlong, making great progress on two different websites that will start to bring in some residual income, as well as getting a third into the planning stages. That third website is going to be fantastic, and of interest to any of you that like to write. I'll be sure to keep you posted on that one when I can release more information. Needless to say, with the economy like it is, and slow-paying clients, we've been keeping our heads down and working hard on projects that we believe in and feel have a great chance of success for us and for the people that use them.

Play

A couple of weeks ago I was asked to join a band with some friends. After a lot of thought and talking with the family, I said yes. It's been a hectic few weeks getting up to speed on the songs and ready for this upcoming weekend.

The band is Captain Black's Sea Dogges, a pirate band that does traditional sea songs and plenty of originals. I'm thrilled to be a part of this, and rehearsals are bringing the songs together very nicely.

A lot of great things look to be happening with the band in the near future, but the most immediate thing is that we've been asked to perform at Pyrate Con in New Orleans this weekend. It's a fantastic opportunity, with lots of great exposure, including being recorded and interviewed by the Travel Channel!

That's it for this month. Until next time - keep chasing your dreams!
Lonnie 

March 16, 2009 0 Comments

Guardian Angels

Good things happen in strange ways at times.

As most of you know, I've been unemployed for the last couple of months. That brings with it the usual tightening of the wallet. On Friday I received a little note with some extra money. There was no name attached, no sender on the envelope. The note simply read:

Do what you will with the money, but we really hope you'll have fun with it.

To whomever you are: thank you! We did have some fun with it, and were practical with it also. You have no idea how you made our day.

March 12, 2009 0 Comments

A New Low for Daughter of the Sun

I hit a new low last night. But a low that is good.

It started when I installed an app on my iPhone to track the Amazon sales rank of the book. Let's face it, the sales aren't generally great. I haven't put nearly enough time into marketing it to make it happen, so I thought for sure that something was off on the app when I opened it this morning and saw that my sales had dropped from 1.2 million to around 163,000. That means that, somehow, I had quite a few sales yesterday, and I'm not sure where they came from. That's the whole reason that I signed up for a free account over at RankForest anyway, was to try to figure out correlations between marketing I did do, and sales.

The only idea thing I've done in the last few days was to post a review on one of Rick Riordan's books, The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) , on Amazon. Surely, it couldn't have made that much of a difference, could it have?

Doesn't really matter, though. I'll take it!

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