Want to be a contributor to a book?

I'm currently writing a quick book listing my favourite action movie clichés. If you would like to offer your favourite overused plot device, feel free to contact me. If I like it, and have not yet thought of it, I'll put it in the book, and list you as a contributor.
So here is your chance to see your name in print.

Why is Self-publishing the wrong move?

Answer: It's not necessarily wrong at all.

I recently Googled, looking for information on editor services for the self-published. I kept coming across articles on how you should not self-publish, that you should always try the traditional publishing route.

This made me angry. Why are people so against self-publishing?

One article said the self-publishing companies are just in it for the money. True. But traditional publishers are in it for the money too.

Publishing your book comes down to either fighting through the system (and it is a fight to get a traditional publisher to even look at your manuscript), or doing the work yourself with self-publishing. And if you are going to self-publish it is going to take work. But it should be your choice.

And yes, there are a lot of bad books self-published. But there are bad books published the old-fashioned way as well. I know I've read some.

I say stop bad-mouthing the self-publishing industry and try to fix it. Opportunities are better the destroying potential dreams.

Cafepress Store

I now have a store at Cafepress: http://www.cafepress.com/afallon
I've got notecards, postcards, mugs, posters, and other stuff for sale. All with designs and logos from my books.
Take a look, you might find something you like.

This store is now closed.

New Book Published

My newest book, Inside Realms, has been published on Lulu.com
It is a fantasy short story collection, of six short stories, telling the tales of wizards, magic and vampires. Plus, there is a sneak peek at the upcoming novella Chronicles of the Undead.

Here is the link: Inside Realms

Here is a Press Release: Press Release

Online story- Part 2

Eternally Lost

I died in 1093, in England, but I still walk the earth. I am of the Undead, one of the condemned. We are the dead who attain no peace with the closing of our mortality, we are the souls who walk the shadows.
Purgatory is not what you have accepted.
Tonight I watch the moon, and the slivers of light that are dancing upon my night. I bathe in the moonlight, surrounded by the wood and the wind. It is silent and beautiful.
I am waiting for Robert Sinclair, my sad, despairing soul. We have much in common, despite the fact he is yet alive. We are forlorn souls.
For I am damned to walk among the living, to be invisible to those full of spirit. Only those such as Robert, the desperate ones, can see the Undead.
So, sometimes, we reach out. To touch what we were, what has vanished. It is even whispered in the shadows, that to save a despondent soul is to find our redemption.
I wonder, now and then, if that could be true.