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Unpublishing All My Fiction

For an author, the best thing to do is write and publish as many books as possible. The more books you have available, the more likely you'll be discovered, and the more potential readers you'll gain. For me, that has been the purpose of my writing. Last year in June, I had this crazy idea to also publish a book that contained all my published works in one volume called  All My Fiction . Because it is an eBook, I would update it whenever I wrote another piece under the B.C. Young name. At first, the book became my fastest seller. And why not? For a flat rate, whoever purchased it could get everything I wrote. I still think it is a great idea, especially because it benefits the reader many times over. Here I sit in May 2012, and I realize I can't do it anymore. Not because I'm losing money or anything like that. Rather, the eBook submission process across multiple channels creates a challenge for updating the book and distributing to those who have purchased. It also has

Staying Awake Creates a Nightmare

This post is simply one to complain. A couple months ago, I began watching the television show  Awake . The premise—a man is in a car accident with his family and finds himself in two realities where one has his wife surviving the crash and the other his son surviving the crash, every time he falls asleep and wakes up he finds himself in the other reality—seemed perfect for all sorts of fun plot lines. And it is! Some of the episodes of this show have been so intense I can't believe it. Over the past few weeks, I kept thinking that I was watching the season finale of the show each time it aired. But it wasn't. That's how good this show is. So where's my complaint? Here it is: The show has been cancelled! Nooooooooooo!!!! Now, I will get over it. But with today's multiple avenues to watch TV, can we really trust Nielsen all the way? Can a network allow a show to go off the air because they can't track the complete number of potential viewers now and in the futur

April 2012 Sales Numbers

Below are my book sales numbers for April 2012. I'll let the numbers do the talking. I've also updated the Sales Numbers page with the current total sales of my books. If you bought one of my books during April, I thank you greatly. Enjoy! April 2012 Sales Numbers 3 -  The Present 3 -  Sunrise (Miscorrection) 2 - Fram Gage and The Infinite Abiltiy (Print Edition) 1 -  Awry (Miscorrection) 1 -  Copy Bird 1 -  Felix Culpa (Miscorrection) 1 -  Panacea (Miscorrection) 1 -  Sundown (Miscorrection) Total Sales: 13 Total Money Earned: $21.38