My Xmas Carol blog

On my author's page at Amazon (which you get to by clicking on my name when you're on the Xmas Carol page), there's a link on the right that leads to my Xmas Carol blog.

I haven't posted much there but I invite Xmas Carol readers to visit and leave a comment or two. It needs a little livening-up. Thanks!

I created a blog for Xmas Carol

Now I have three blogs -- this one, another one that is identical except it has graphics, and a separate blog for Xmas Carol.

The reason I did this was to tart up my author's page at Amazon. You can include a blog feed on the page, and at first I linked to my main blog (the one you're reading now). But the anti-god posts didn't seem to be a good fit with a sci-fi/horror author's page. I didn't want to scare folks away before they learned what a sweet guy I am.

So I created the Xmas Carol blog. You can see it on the right on my author's page at Amazon (link above) and there's also a link to the blog on my Smashwords author's page.

Not only will this provide a dynamic lift to my author's page, it will give me a place to discuss writing. I used to do that here but this blog morphed into a fierce anti-god site. I applaud this purpose but posts about writing no longer seem to fit in. If any readers were fans of my writing posts (just search on the tag writing process below to see these posts) you'll find new ones at the Xmas Carol blog. (At least, you will when I write them. I'm just getting started there. I have one introductory post up, at present.)

Just FYI.

Book stuff

I set up an author's page at Amazon and then had to create one at the Amazon stores in other countries. It was fun and a bit weird because I had to make my way through screens of questions written in other languages. But it wasn't that hard because they were replicas of the original English page. I could tell what to click on. As a result, my author's page is up in France, Germany and the UK stores. I think I did another country too, but I'm not sure which. Greece? Japan's site wouldn't let me in at all. It just didn't like me. I get that sometimes. And the links Amazon provided for authors' pages at its stores in Spain and Italy were incorrect. I never got there. (Yes, I can look up the stores' URLs. But just try to find the author's page at one of those sites when you don't speak the language.)

Yup, this is what it's like to be a self-published author: you have to do everything yourself. They don't even provide maids or masseurs. You're totally on your own. Still, it's kind of fun. Xmas Carol is out there. And if I'm not mistaken, Christmas is coming. And this won't be just any old Christmas. It will be the Christmas of Xmas Carol. I like the sound of that.