BRYAN W. ALASPA

One of the great things about being a writer is the fact you often get to meet or become friends with other writers. In this world of social media and in a landscape where cross-promotion is often key to achieving any kind of publishing success, using social media and maintaining good relationships with other writers is so key. Authors really should not consider themselves competition, but colleagues in a tough industry. One of my favorite writer pals is a guy named Connor Co

Just a quick update folks! I am busy working on a freelance gig and the third Elementals novel - as well as trying to promote my new novel S.P.I.D.A.R. That one is available as an ebook, in print and audiobook version. So, you can get S.P.I.D.A.R. as an audiobook as Audible, but I also have seven other works there available for you to listen to from a variety of voice talents. They were all amazing to work with and if you just never have the time to read, listening to a book

The fact is that the publishing world has changed. You can debate until the end of time if it's changed for the better or worse. I think it's changed for the better. I like the vast expanse of authors and works of fiction that I might not have had access to in the pre-Kindle world. I can go on and on about how I was there trying to push the idea of self-publishing before there was a Kindle, but even I can't inflate my ego that large. People have been self-publishing for centu

I used to tell a joke that I didn't care if you read my work, just that you bought a lot of copies. In some ways, that still applies when it comes to the print stuff. I mean, if you bought about 100 copies of The Man From Taured in print, you'd pretty much make my year. But since most of my books are snatched up by the ebook crowd, that old joke is pretty stale. A while ago Amazon changed the way things worked for those who signed up for Kindle Unlimited. That's a monthly ser