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The Trending of Micro-Niche Novels

August 25, 2011 by David Mark Brown

The Indie ebook novelist lives in a world of tags, LCD’s, SEO, design, tweets, content marketing, pajamas, likes, coffee shops, fans, (sometimes dirty diapers) and usually hard liquor. Along with all these wonderful things I’ve also learned to release my dreams of New York Times best seller, and instead embrace the new goal of Amazon/Kindle ebooks/Science Fiction/Adventure top-100-list best seller.

Welcome to the rise of the micro-niche novel. As a reader of fiction I’m ecstatic about this revolution, which essentially guarantees me a supply of quality fiction specifically written to my tastes. As a writer I’ve been untethered from the wants and demands of the big six publishers and the agents who feed their fix.

With the redonculous power Amazon/Kindle exerts over the ebook industry, they have become the new benchmark of success.

Guest Blog: A Shallow Sort of Inspiration

August 22, 2011 by David Mark Brown

Today I welcome David M. Brown to the Green Porch. We always knew there were a lot of us around, but it just so happens that there is another DMB currently promoting a soon to be run away hit novel. So as a salute to Freaky Friday (Monday version), we’re swapping blogs for the day. But this doesn’t mean that up is down and hot is cold, or that you should go to work in your spouse’s clothing. So just enjoy the post!

These days I seem to define myself as a writer/author/novelist so often that it’s easy to forget that I was once a reader, video gamer, film lover. Well, I say was but in truth I still am; it’s just that those things become buried so easily under the ongoing manuscript, the reviews I need to check through and the piles of money I’m making. Hands up if you spotted that the last one was a red herring? Okay, I admit I’m not making much money from writing just yet (ever optimistic!) so I’m also spending several hours a day fielding the day job.

In truth, I think it’s been a long time since writers were just, well, writers but I don’t think that’s confined to this profession alone. I think we’re all multi-taskers.

Diving Horses and Amazon Kindle

August 15, 2011 by David Mark Brown

I feel how I image William “Doc” Carver’s horse felt after it had been asked to dive from its 50 ft. platform into the Deep Eddy Springs in Austin, TX for the fourth time that day.

Horse diving isn’t so popular anymore (for some weird reason), and I’ll go out on a limb here suggest that horses probably don’t miss it much. First off, the water was cold. The pay was a pile of fermenting oats. And to top it all off, any animal with four hooves probably doesn’t have any business in the water.

As a fledgling ebook writer/designer/publisher/marketer I feel sort of like a diving horse belly flopping into a digital ocean from an airplane (pink belly, pink belly). Not only is the water cold, the pay zilch and my talents not always ideally suited, but its an abysmally long drop followed by a marathon swim.