8 rounds (1:00) AMAYC: odd rounds, Dumbe

Posted on July 3, 2014 | Leave a comment

8 rounds (1:00) AMAYC: odd rounds, Dumbell Squat Press (#30 per hand), even rounds Jackknifes w/ Med. Ball (#12) @cabal_fang #WOD

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I Broke into the Top 10?

Posted on June 30, 2014 | Leave a comment
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The Cabal Fang Martial Arts Manual at #4 in Martial Arts, top downloads

As I mentioned the other day, my eBook sales are up markedly.  So I decided to go and see if I made the Top 100 anywhere.

Obviously it’s my martial arts books that are most popular — and I’m very proud and excited about that — but I’m a little bummed about my how my fiction is performing.  Do I suck at fiction?  Or is it just that I’m a smaller fish in a larger pond when it comes to the fiction market?

Hopefully The 14th Mansion will break out and change all that.  Fingers crossed.  Release day is tomorrow, and the anticipation is killing me…

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1 hour Hike w/ #25 backpack @cabal_fang

Posted on June 29, 2014 | Leave a comment

1 hour Hike w/ #25 backpack @cabal_fang #WOD

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Reblog This!

Posted on June 27, 2014 | Leave a comment
This is my best hypnotic face...when I snap my fingers you are going to reblog this post...

This is my best hypnotic face…when I snap my fingers you are going to reblog this post…

As you know (how could you not, what with my non-stop screaming) I have a new eBook dropping on 7/1.  And I want everyone on the third planet from the Sun to go preorder it at B&N, iTunes, Smashwords, etc. And I’m asking you (actually I’m begging) to help me get the word out.

Did you just say, “What’s in it for me?” Well, glad you asked!  All you have to do is reblog this and I’ll add your blog name to the dedication of my next book. So, actually, you’re kind of supporting yourself.

Make sense?

Yeah, it kind of does, doesn’t it? So go ahead: reblog this!

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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Posted on June 27, 2014 | Leave a comment
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“The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I’m a big fan of Saint-Exupéry.  Wind, Sand and Stars is one of my absolute favorite books, and I had been meaning to read The Little Prince for a long time.  I finally got around to it last week.

I was not disappointed, to say the least.  It is another masterpiece.

Saint-Exupéry’s strength is in his ability to uncover a truly original nugget of wisdom and to deliver it to the reader with touching beauty and sincerity.  In Wind, Sand and Stars the nugget was “The meaning of life is not discovered; it is constructed.”  In The Little Prince it is “All that is essential is invisible to the eye.”  As I tell you these nuggets I know, and I want you to know, that I have given nothing away.  Grasping the true wisdom of these aphorisms is impossible without reading the books; and the beauty of the books, in keeping with the wisdom of the latter quote, is invisible to the eye.

Although The Little Prince is often billed as a children’s book, it seems to me better suited to adults.  Well, maybe not “better suited.”  Let’s just say that there is lots going on in The Little Prince that kids just aren’t going to get.  But if they did, it would be a better world we live in.

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Heavybag 4 rnds AFAYC 1:00/:30 @cabal_fa

Posted on June 26, 2014 | Leave a comment

Heavybag 4 rnds AFAYC 1:00/:30 @cabal_fang #WOD

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Storm Clouds

Posted on June 25, 2014 | Leave a comment
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Storm clouds. For no particular reason.

A picture of storm clouds, taken as I got into my truck to go home from work the other day, just because.

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Book Sales up 600%

Posted on June 24, 2014 | 2 comments

CF_avatarI don’t know what happened.  Was it something I did, or something I stopped doing?  Whatever it is/was, but my book sales are up 600% in the last 30 days.

Now, when sales are as low as mine the figures are easily skewed by just a few sales.  That’s a fact.  But the trend has been up for several weeks in a row.  The increase — all of it — came from a spike in my martial arts books sales.  What is it about those that’s suddenly getting traction?  Search me.  All I know is, I’m thrilled.

If you’re a fan of my non-fiction martial arts books, let me first say thank you, thank you, thank you!  Which book was your favorite? Please comment below.

And, by the way, I have two fitness books in the pipeline — one on calisthenics and one on weight loss and getting cut.  Is either of those of interest to you?

 

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Yes, you can pre-order “The 14th Mansio

Posted on June 23, 2014 | Leave a comment

Yes, you can pre-order “The 14th Mansion” at the iTunes store…http://ow.ly/yl4t5

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Sweetening the Release Day Pot

Posted on June 23, 2014 | 2 comments
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Don’t sit there like a bump on a log. Preorder my book!  Re-blog!  Re-tweet!

Last week I announced that my new book The 14th Mansion releases on all the major eBook outlets on July 1st.  I started a promotion — free downloads of the two previous novels for everyone who pre-books (<—click here for links to the most popular sites).

Now I’m sweetening the deal.

If you re-blog this post, or re-tweet the tweet below, I’ll add your name (or twitter handle) to the dedication of my next book! 

Look, this is your chance at a slice of immortality.  And, if that’s not enough, when I hit the big time — I’m on the NY Times Bestseller list, sitting across the desk from Jimmy Fallon and what-not — you can say “You know that writer who hosted SNL last night?  He dedicated a book to me!”

So go ahead.  Prebook.  Put your name in the comments over here and get your free downloads.  Re-blog and re-tweet so you can live forever in a book dedication.  All for the low, low price of $3.99.

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