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Here's one you don't see every day (at least mooks like me don't) - the two books in my Kid Sensation series are ranked #1 and #2 in one of their categories: Best Sellers in  Superhero Fantasy eBooks Top 100 Paid Top 100 Free   1. Mutation: A Kid Sensation Novel (Kid... by Kevin Hardman 4.4 out of 5 stars       ( 9 ) Kindle Edition $3.99 2. Sensation: A Superhero Novel by Kevin Hardman 4.2 out of 5 stars       ( 44 ) Kindle Edition $3.99 To a certain extent, it feels like Thunderdome: Two books enter; one book leaves ...  Seriously though, all I can say is that I feel blessed that the books seem to be finding an audience, and I'm continually floored by the level of support my writing has received.  Over the past week Mutation broke into the Top 1000 in the paid Kindle Store (the highest rank I saw it get to was #691), and I even find myself with an Amazon Author Rank that's in the Top 100 for Fantasy and Science Fiction. It really does f...

I mention all the time about how limited my knowledge of self-publishing is, so I'm still prone to making rookie mistakes.  One of the things I've neglected to do until fairly recently was work more on selling print copies of my books. I know that there are many who eschew print altogether (and make a very good living focusing only on ebooks), but for me it's another market to sell to. Public libraries, brick-and-mortar bookstores, etc.  They're all out there - numbering in the hundreds of thousands - and since it costs practically nothing to do print versions, why not? That said, getting into physical libraries and bookstores can sometimes require a little more legwork. Independent bookstores may only work with you on a consignment basis, and - other than those located near you - the large chains may only be interested if they can get your book through one of their distributors/wholesalers such as Ingram.  (For libraries, this would primarily be Baker & Taylor.) ...

Hey Everyone! So over the past month we've realized that keeping up the blog and updates while developing isn't as easy as you might think. Our workflow and overall pipeline has seemed to run smoother each week we've worked, so we decided to show you some of the fruits of our labor (well, at least the visual fruits). John here to talk about the art pipeline. Firstly, let's get this out of the way, we are all pretty new at this. None of us have had any specific video game art education, so going into full time development has forced us all to learn content creation on the fly. As a result, over the past year we have gone through many different workflows and methods of creating assets. The first step, as I've preached many times before, is research. Sometimes it's great to come up with your own methods of working, but without guidance from the tried in true, you are in for a long development process. Sites like polycount and the UDK forums provide a ton of knowl...

I am proud to say that  Mutation: A Kid Sensation Novel  (the sequel to Sensation ) has finally been released! The cover art was again done by Isikol, whose work on the first novel in the series was simply spectacular.  Needless to say, I'm happy to finally have the book out there.  Fans of Sensation have been very vocal in their request for a sequel, so hopefully they will enjoy this next adventure of Kid Sensation. Of course, I probably should have done a better job of getting the word out about the sequel: done a cover release, announced a release date well in advance, etc. In all honesty, though, I'm just so new to all this (self-publishing, that is) that it well probably be a while before I get my sea legs under me and figure out enough of the ins and outs that I don't look like a total idiot every time I do something. To be frank, though, I'm really a simple-minded fella, so I'm nervous about having lot of a pomp and circumstance surrounding a book release, a...