Books

Earlier this month, I published my first paperback book using KDP. Although it was a time consuming process, I wouldn’t say that it was difficult. Amazon’s documentation is pretty good and I found tons of external guides geared toward independent

I opened pre-orders for my book, Framed, on February 4th, 2025. I set the eBook’s release day to February 28th. That mean a three-and-a-half-week pre-order period. What I realized after posting a reddit thread about my journey as a first-time

Part of self-publishing a book is learning how to self-promote. Over the years, I’ve done some marketing to the modest subscriber list I’ve built here but selling a product entails running traditional ads. The consensus is that it couldn’t be

Today is one of the proudest days of my life. I’ve finished writing my first book. It’s titled Framed: A Villain’s Perspective on Social Media. I started gathering content in mid 2021. My “side hustle” central to the book’s storyline

I read more than ever this year. 16,230 pages!! That’s counting the 50 books I finished, not the half dozen that still have bookmarks in them. The exaggerated title is an homage to the original reading challenge I completed back in 2016. I’ve been

In 2018, my streak came to an end. I failed to finish 52 books as I had done during the last two years. The target is arbitrary, but even as my page count (a metric that Goodreads provides) and average complexity level (a