Mailing list, youtube, twitch, and other news

I recently decided that I need to be more active with my online presence, so I made a mailing list. You can sign up for my mailing list here. I am only planning to use the mailing list when I release a new book, change the price of a current book, or have some other big news. I will not be posting about my youtube or twitch accounts there. Speaking of my youtube and twitch accounts, I haven't posted on them in awhile. I've had a lot going on and found that it's been harder than I thought to keep up with everything. I think I will probably start doing more posts once Hair of The Wolf is complete and for sale in the kindle store. I have been solely focused on my book and I know that's not really fair to the people who want to watch my youtube and twitch streams, but I swear I am getting back to that. Also, I have been saying for the longest time that I want to improve this blog, but I've had no idea how to. Now I am looking into youtube videos and websites to find what is important to readers. I am going to use whatever free time that I can muster to slowly change this blog, and when I am done with that I will have to take some lazy days to catch up on all the tv shows I've been missing. I've only seen the season 7 opener to the Walking Dead, and none of Supernatural or Scream Queens. Anyway, thanks for sticking through with this update and please subscribe to my mailing list!

Are there too many .99 cent books?

It seems like I post a lot and then disappear, which is mainly due to me trying to get my next novel out. I am going to correct a lot of mistakes that I made when releasing Zombie Bite. It's going to be a longer book, and I am also planning to send the file for my next book to createspace.com so that I can have an actual book that people can hold in their hands (and sniff because book sniffing is apparently a thing). It has always been my dream to write books, and now that I've actually written one I feel kind of underwhelmed. Maybe my dream was to make a living from writing books, which may happen. Zombie Bite has only been out for a few months and I haven't even released Hair of the Wolf yet. Honestly, Hair of the Wolf if more of the type of book that I enjoy reading. It's an urban fantasy about a werewolf who was just recovering from an abusive relationship when she accidentally reveals the existence of werewolves to the world. I've been writing and editing like crazy, but I did manage to stop and ask myself one question; are there too many self published books out there already? I must have a ton on my kindle that I got for .99 cents but never pick up. I thought it was just because I'm in a reading slump, but I think it's more likely the fact that I have trouble getting into self published authors. I know that sounds crazy, especially given the amount of work that I put into my own books. Why do I feel that way? I've read awesome books that were self published. Maybe it's just that no one talks about self published authors the same way they do regular authors. I used to talk about books quite a lot and no one ever brought up self publishing. We always talked about authors we liked that had easily attainable books. It was so easy to just go into books-a-million or barnes and noble and pick up something new. I feel like that issue is the same issue plaguing many people. Why pick up an unknown author when I already know that I'm going to like another author's book? Hopefully people will open up and start supporting local authors or small authors more.