It's now been a little over three years since the release of my book 35 Miles From Shore. The picture on the left was taken at my very first book signing, which happened to be at a Borders store in Chicago. By now I had fully expected that the book would have made its way down the long tail of … [Read more...] about Borders: End of one era and the beginning of another
Air France black box found
After almost two years of searching, they've finally located and recovered the black box of Air France Flight 447. This is the flight that crashed in the Atlantic, killing all on board. You can read the full story at Investigators find Air France black box. There is going to be a lot of interest … [Read more...] about Air France black box found
Unbroken Campaign Update
Only two weeks left on the Unbroken campaign. The results thus far have been promising. I sold more books last month than I did for any other month for all of last year. The final total isn't in, but it was close to 100 books. Once again eBooks out sold print. How much of this was attributed to the … [Read more...] about Unbroken Campaign Update
35 Miles From Shore has a new website
It's only been about six months since my last redesign, but I have acquired some new skills that allow me to do more creative things with the site. The main impetus, though, behind this redesign is what I see as a big upcoming year for eBooks. I think 2011 is going to be the turning point where … [Read more...] about 35 Miles From Shore has a new website
Campaign Update: First week
The Unbroken campaign has been running now for one full week. During this period I have raised the default and individual keywords bids for both search and display. I have also decided to run a parallel campaign on Microsoft Adcenter. So now searches on Bing are displaying the same ads as those on … [Read more...] about Campaign Update: First week
Campaign update: four days in
The Unbroken campaign has been running now for four days. In those four days, I've made a few adjustments in response to the data from Adwords. The biggest adjustment was an increase in my bid price for the search campaign. I had started with a default bid of just .15 cents a click. Despite having … [Read more...] about Campaign update: four days in