Exceptionals is out and available NOW! And I have a gift for you as an enticement/thank you for being a StoriesbyBowen aficionado. My debut novel about a federal protection agent who teams up with his jilted, black belt ex-fiancé and a band of college campus oddballs to protect a young woman with extraordinary abilities from some clandestine kidnappers has arrived! Exceptionals evolved from an award-winning short story to a novel over the course of a couple years. Submissions, revisions, and hard decisions later, I am proud to bring this humorous supernatural thriller come love story… Read Article →
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How to Avoid the Landmines 98.2% of today’s self-published authors wet their feet with Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). I made that stat up, but it’s gotta be close. And rightly so, Amazon is THE main marketplace and an author can have a finished book out for sale with less than an hour’s work. So, it makes sense to start there. I did. Then I went wide. Publishing with KDP and D2D proved to have several pitfalls. I published A Night to Remember with KDP just to see what the hubbub was all about. After the… Read Article →
The debut anthology from Pikes Peak Writers Dawn Trouble, the tale of Rom and Drood and the most irksome backup in all creation, first appeared in this seminal tome by the members of Pikes Peak Writers. Check it out not just for my story, but also for great works by Karen Albright Lin, C.E. Simpson, Ian Neligh, Jere Ellison, Josh Clark, and Debbie Maxwell Allen. Purchase of this anthology supports Pikes Peak Writers, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, volunteer-run organization dedicated to the education and promotion of writers and the art of fiction. Fresh Starts is available… Read Article →