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How many of you have been tempted to or already paid for “Blog Tours”? Did it increase your book sales? Expensive book trailer? Fun but more book sales? When it comes to book sales, the old adage is still true: the best form of advertising is “word of mouth”. The only question is, how do you generate word of mouth without spending a lot of money? Approximately 5,000 new books are released every month and the average author sells only 250 (mostly to family and frie… Continue

Just did a search on my name and my book The Victor is now listed on all the websites above as a prerelease order! I also now have a gorgeous new website (still needing some slight fine-tuning): http://thevictor.tatepublishing.net/

I don't think it's any coincidence that I have all these people in my life and background. When I used to work for Contemporary Christian Music Magazine back in the early 80's, Stephen was a contributing editor. I found his management's address in New York at the back of one of his latest novels and wrote a letter to him and received a very nice, personal handwritten letter back, providing me with his home address in Oxford, England to send him a copy.

Of course, my writing doesn't even come cl… Continue

Ever since I was a kid writing Steve Austin (Six Million Dollar Man) short stories with my best friend Lisa, I dreamt of having a book published but I never had the "big idea" until I was about 22 years old. I was listening to Amy Grant's latest album "Fathers Eyes" and in particular to her song entitled "Fairytale" when a particular verse caught my attention: "...two princes wages the battle for eternity but The Victor has been known from the start...

Being a J.R.R. Tolkien fan, an image poppe… Continue