The Author Guy Blog

1st January 2025.  Hello out there, Welcome back, and greetings on this very first day of the new year 2025. I hope it is a glorious one for you and those near and dear to you. This portends to be an exciting time for me in what is now my 11 th year in my author journey. We have a confirmed date of Tuesday, May 5 th , to launch the 2 nd Edition of my award-winning novel Blue by You through the vast marketing and sales infrastructure of Simon & Schuster. And as I am well along in the process with my publisher for my fifth novel, For the Love of Charley Chaplain , I’m hoping for its release by the Thanksgiving / Christmas holiday season at the end of this year. Another thing I’m hopeful of realizing is inspiration that will result in a Christmas-themed book I mentioned a few weeks ago. I’m confident it will happen – just need to be patient. In the meantime, I’m working away at crafting short stories for online publication and potentially inclusion in an anthology I’ll published ...

11th October 2024 Hello out there, Welcome back. I read a sign somewhere sometime that said: “I want patience … and I want it now!” That’s how I felt a few weeks ago when my new publisher, with whom I enthusiastically signed an exclusive contract last December, informed me it will most likely be next summer (18 months later) before the new version of my award-winning book Blue by You will be released. My sense of urgency is two-fold. First, last week I celebrated my seventh-fifth birthday and the sand in my hourglass seems to be falling more rapidly with each passing year. I reckon I’d feel different if it were instead my forty-fifth. Second, and more important, from a commercial standpoint I’ll I’ve been at a standstill, out of business in terms of marketing for those same eighteen months. I consulted with my wise and experienced marketing expert who lives in the high desert of Oregon, and we concluded this could be a good thing, indeed. More time for us to plan our “launch” – you kn...