But I Digress…, Episode 1: How to Sell Books at Conventions

After over a week of figuring out video editing programs (and finding the time to use them), my long-awaited first vlog is done!

In the first episode, I give eight tips on how to sell books at conventions to aspiring writers. These were based on my experiences at Gen-Con.

This is my first vlog and my first time using video editing programs, so it didn’t turn out as well as I would’ve liked. I expect they will improve as time goes on. I have to resist the urge to nitpick my own video and performance.

Please leave me comments, especially if you have ideas for topics for future episodes. I’d love to make this interactive.

Until next time, True Believers!

Curses! Foiled again!

Wondering where the first episode of “But I Digress…” is? Well, it’s been filmed, but editing it has been n exercise in thwarted plans.

At first, I was going to use the website www.WeVideo.com to edit it, but the video was too large an upload for it. I would still like to use the site in the future. It’s highly recommended and user-friendly. So, I’ve been trying to use my brother Josiah’s Abobe Premiere programs to edit it. However, trying to coordinate schedules so I can go over there and he can advise me on how to use the programs (and remember how to use them himself) has proven difficult. But I shall not give up, True Believers! It will get done, and soon. This all started because I filmed the video in HD for the highest possible quality and to maximize the entertainment and instructional value for you, my readers.  I promise it will be worth the wait.

So tune in again, same bat-time, same bat-channel.

An overdue update on my new vlog

I realize I’m kinda breaking one of the rules I learned about digital publishing t a seminar at Gen-Con, but I want to apologize for not updating my website for a while. Life has kept me busy. I finished writing a novella that will be serialized on a webfiction website some writer friends and I are starting (more on that later), and I’ve started writing more regularly on Examiner. I may also post a new story on this site.

However, this post isn’t about any of those.

I mentioned that I was going to do a vlog (or video podcast or whatever people call it now) about what I learned about selling books at conventions. I fully intend to do that. In fact, I’d like to make the vlog a recurring feature of this website and my Youtube channel. It would be interactive and yet another way to get myself out there to promote my work and the works of others. Plus, it’d be fun. I learned about an online video editing program called WeVideo that would be perfect for this.

I plan to call the show “But I Digress…”. I’m going to film the first episode this week.

Stay tuned for more details. I don’t want to promise too much right now.