Wind Blown Ashes
Ashes is still trying to walk the Gray Path, serving neither good nor evil, but it is difficult. Events keep pushing her deeper and deeper into the darkness, not least of which is the demon ...
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Can We Break the Universe? What does that imply?
The assumption that with high enough technology, it is possible to break the universe leads to many interesting conclusions. It almost eliminates the possibility of an older, more powerful race, except under certain circumstances. Quite ...
Why reading the free episodes on Kindle Vella matters.
Criticism on how bad the stuff on Kindle Vella is, is common, and much of it, accurate. Right along with its established serial authors, with well-honed story-telling skills, are even more authors still learning to ...
First Ten Episodes on all Stories Free
Amazon’s Kindle Vella has made the first ten episodes free. But they are paying the authors a bonus for each free episode that you read. This means you can really help out authors at no ...
Book Signing in the Philippines?
I am exploring the possibility of holding a large, combined, author’s book signing event in Province of Pangasinan on the Island of Luzon in the Philippines in late July if I find sufficient writers interested ...
Help An Author Before It’s Too Late.
On Amazon’s Kindle Vella, an author gets one half of whatever a person paid for the tokens that they spent as a royalty payment. Then there are the bonuses. To grow their serial story library, ...
Writing your Villain’s POV
Some people write a believable villain’s point of view, other struggle with it. This is far from the only way, and it isn’t even the one I have used often. Since villains are more often ...
My work is now available on Ream
This ongoing story, and many of my other works are now available on Ream and have more content I am constantly adding. https://reamstories.com/jamesrsteinhaus. With the Story Donald of Mars, I have used fiction to try ...
New Cover Image to Mercenary Captain Kerric
I used the Ai image generator at 123 to get this image and have put it up as a cover image. To get closer to the mark, I need a better generator, preferably one where ...
A few things I picked up on Writing Vellas
When I started my first Vella in late December of 2021, doing it then to have it out just before the New Year, I had no idea what I was doing. Only one person in ...