The Coachella Lineup announcement reminded/inspired me to work on the long delayed commentary for my “Fester” short story. I’ll use the same bulleted stream of consciousness format from the old series of Timely Persuasion commentary posts. Warning: Some of the below contains minor spoilers. If you haven’t read “Fester” you probably don’t want to read…
Category: Behind the Scenes
Fester Cover
After utilizing the wonderful artwork by Jose Roberto for the cover of Timely Persuasion, I opted to go the do-it-yourself route for the “Fester” cover. My original idea was to take a photo of a pile of “scrip” tickets, a normal concert ticket, and a paper bracelet all scattered on a lawn alongside a ringing cellphone with…
3:11pm, 311s Day
Someone bought a TP eBook via Smashwords at 3:11pm on 11/11/11. I’m easily amused…
Smashwords, eBooks, iBooks
Smashwords.com manages the eBook distribution of Timely Persuasion to the Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony, Kobo, and Diesel.  They handle the format conversion and distribution, which is huge.  I probably could handle the conversions myself, but it’s so time consuming it wouldn’t be worth it.  (I did my own formatting for the Amazon Kindle…
Mike Doughty’s Hand(writing)
Had a couple of recent questions about the font on the setlists in the paperback, which caused me to realize I never blogged about the origin of that in any detail. Could have sworn I did, but a quick scan of the archives proves otherwise. Here we go: Once upon a time a designer named…
Quantum Commentary
Finally got around to posting my 5th place entry from the fan fiction contest at Leap Back 2009 to the extras section of the main site. “Just Like Starting Over” It’s called “Just Like Starting Over” (you knew I’d go with a song title…) and serves as a bridge between the beginning and the end…
ARG(hhh!) Again, Naturally
Here we go again. Back in November I wrote a post that detailed my small brush with infamy related to DarmaWantsYou.com. This week saw the stars align for another 15 minutes of fame that felt worthy of revisiting. The rough timeline: February 29, 2008 Timely Persuasion is released. The book includes 2 hidden easter eggs…
Cover Me: The Art of Jose Roberto
One of the most common questions I get regarding Timely Persuasion is about the cover artwork. Where did it come from? How does it relate to the plot? Is that you in the picture? I was surprised to realize I haven’t told that story on this blog before now. Way back in June of 2005…
Huey Lewis & The Anachronisms
Stumbled onto a neat section of the HLN.org Huey Lewis Wiki today that features a full “gigography” of every show he’s ever done. However, this also led me to the entry for 1986. Which means that this… Walking over to retrieve the golf ball, I stopped when I saw the signature on it. Huey Lewis. …
The Story Behind The Story
As I’ve said before, I’m a better writer than I am a marketer. That’s not to say I’m necessarily a brilliant writer, just that one skill outshines the other. On the Timely Persuasion website, I periodically play around with “The Story” section at the top in an attempt to get the best mix of marketing…