Now that I’ve set up my blog with a My Books page<\/a> and individual pages for each of my books, complete with purchase links, book description, linked Goodreads reviews and everything, I’m in a good position to do some things that I couldn’t before. The most significant thing is that I can now put links to my books in the backs of other books. Without a dedicated page on my blog for each book, I couldn’t really do that, since Apple will take down your ebook if it has a link to Amazon, as well as Kobo, and Kobo probably will too\u2026 etc etc.<\/p>\n Point is, now I can put links to my books in the back-matter of each book, instead of just a teaser. So I’ve been going through and reformatting for that, which honestly isn’t too difficult, but it can be a little tedious. While I was at it, I made a dedicated page for my email list sign-up form<\/a>, and put front-matter links in all my books for that.<\/p>\n After that’s finished, the plan is to release a second edition of Science Fiction from A to Z,<\/strong> this time with inline text links to the book pages for all of my books. Many of the chapters finish by saying “this is how I played with this trope in this book,” so adding the links should be a fairly organic and non-obtrusive way to do some marketing. And when the new version is out, I plan to give it away as an incentive to join my email list.<\/p>\n So that’s what I’ve been up to on the publishing end. On the writing end, I’m taking a bit of a break to work out some projects in my head before I put them down on paper. I want to shift away from science fiction for a while and work on some fantasy, starting some new series and building new universes. More on that in later posts.<\/p>\n Friends in Command (Sons of the Starfarers: Book IV)<\/a><\/strong> is set to release on July 1st, so in the lead-up to that, I’ll post a few excerpts. And I have some more ideas for the Self-Sufficient Writer series\u2014just putting together some pictures for that. But for now, I need to get back to writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a while since I blogged about what I’m doing. In spite of the relative blog silence, I’ve actually been up to quite a lot behind the scenes here. My career has had a lot of ups and downs lately, so for the past month or so I’ve been working to retool some things… Continue reading What I’m up to these days<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[957,855,857],"tags":[801],"class_list":["post-9860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ssf-iv","category-ssf","category-sw","tag-marketing","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2z2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9862,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions\/9862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Screenshot](\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screenshot-from-2015-05-28-120147-e1432836305418-600x550.png\")
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