How to Create a Compelling Villain

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I have to make something perfectly clear. RICK IS NOT SCOTT ADAMS!! Rick is a real person, a person named Rick! First people think I'm Scott Adams, now people think Rick is. There are people in the world who are not Scott Adams!!

New "Asking the Wrong Guy" columns will be coming out every Tuesday night/Wednesday morning for the forseeable future.

Thank you for supporting Rick's column, for checking out my novel Off to Be the Wizard, (Available for Kindle (US, UK),Nook, old-school, dead tree form, DRM-free on Smashwords, and as a free sample), and for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).

How to Create a Compelling Villain

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I have to make something perfectly clear. RICK IS NOT SCOTT ADAMS!! Rick is a real person, a person named Rick! First people think I'm Scott Adams, now people think Rick is. There are people in the world who are not Scott Adams!!

New "Asking the Wrong Guy" columns will be coming out every Tuesday night/Wednesday morning for the forseeable future.

Thank you for supporting Rick's column, for checking out my novel Off to Be the Wizard, (Available for Kindle (US, UK),Nook, old-school, dead tree form, DRM-free on Smashwords, and as a free sample), and for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).

How to Spot an Insincere Apology

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Look, I’m new to this self-publishing thing, so please keep that in mind when I say: if you’re one of those who were waiting to buy my book from the Google Play store, but have not yet purchased it in another format, please wait a few more days. I know I said the book would not be available on Play, but I have been contacted by someone from the Play Store, and we’re working on the problem.  They’ve been very pleasant and helpful about the situation, and I have been assured that they are revamping their entire publisher interface in an effort to make it less confusing. If you were waiting for the Play store, then went ahead and bought a copy elsewhere because I told you to, I’m sorry, but on the bright side, the Play version will likely be a bit more expensive than the Kindle and Nook editions.

Thanks for your patience, and for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).

How to Spot an Insincere Apology

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Look, I’m new to this self-publishing thing, so please keep that in mind when I say: if you’re one of those who were waiting to buy my book from the Google Play store, but have not yet purchased it in another format, please wait a few more days. I know I said the book would not be available on Play, but I have been contacted by someone from the Play Store, and we’re working on the problem.  They’ve been very pleasant and helpful about the situation, and I have been assured that they are revamping their entire publisher interface in an effort to make it less confusing. If you were waiting for the Play store, then went ahead and bought a copy elsewhere because I told you to, I’m sorry, but on the bright side, the Play version will likely be a bit more expensive than the Kindle and Nook editions.

Thanks for your patience, and for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).

How to Consider Someone Else's World View

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Unfortunately, I have a bit of bad news regarding my novel and the Google Play store.  I know more than one reader has been waiting to get my book until it’s in the Play store, and I should point out that I’m a Google fan. I love my Android phone, and I use Gmail, and many other Google products, every day. I am predisposed to like Google, but honestly, getting a book into the Google Play store is a monumental pain. I burned an entire morning of my productive time with Google’s sign-up page open in one tab and four more tabs of their contradictory instructions. At the end of that, I hadn’t even successfully gotten the name of my book into their system.

If Google were the industry leader in e-books, I could see them figuring their system was good enough, but they aren’t. The estimates I’ve seen put them in 4th place, with something like 5% of the market. Every other system I have used has been much, much easier to deal with.

To those who have been waiting for my book in the Play store, I’m sorry, but I just don’t see it happening. The book’s available as a hard copy, on Kindle, NOOK, Kobo, Smashwords (DRM free), and will be in iBooks and Sony as soon as it works through the approval process. 

I'd like to say thank you to everyone who has checked out Rick's advice column, and for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).

How to Consider Someone Else's World View

in

Unfortunately, I have a bit of bad news regarding my novel and the Google Play store.  I know more than one reader has been waiting to get my book until it’s in the Play store, and I should point out that I’m a Google fan. I love my Android phone, and I use Gmail, and many other Google products, every day. I am predisposed to like Google, but honestly, getting a book into the Google Play store is a monumental pain. I burned an entire morning of my productive time with Google’s sign-up page open in one tab and four more tabs of their contradictory instructions. At the end of that, I hadn’t even successfully gotten the name of my book into their system.

If Google were the industry leader in e-books, I could see them figuring their system was good enough, but they aren’t. The estimates I’ve seen put them in 4th place, with something like 5% of the market. Every other system I have used has been much, much easier to deal with.

To those who have been waiting for my book in the Play store, I’m sorry, but I just don’t see it happening. The book’s available as a hard copy, on Kindle, NOOK, Kobo, Smashwords (DRM free), and will be in iBooks and Sony as soon as it works through the approval process. 

I'd like to say thank you to everyone who has checked out Rick's advice column, and for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).