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Contact Me! – Return to Writing

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Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing. Use the form below to send me an email. I respond to all mail (unless you’re just a real jerk about it). My name is Brian J. Jarrett and I'm a full-time computer programmer looking to achieve some modest success as a self-published writer. Join me on my journey as I return to writing. Get A Free Book! Sign up for my newsletter and be the first to know about my new book releases. Plus you'll receive one of my books for free, just for subscribing!

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Quick Update on KDP Select – Return to Writing

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Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing. Quick Update on KDP Select. October 4, 2014. Brian J. Jarrett. I opted in my Badlands books to Select. On September 25th. I opted in the rest of my books less than a week before that. I wanted to answer some questions as to how effective Select might be for me again (I spent all of 2012 in it before opting out at the end of that year.). Here’s the first update. One of the questions I asked was whether or not simply being opted in to Select sells more b...

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Three Deaths – Return to Writing

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Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing. October 5, 2014. October 5, 2014. Brian J. Jarrett. There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time. 8211; David Eagleman. Quick Update on KDP Select. KDP Select Six-Week Update. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.

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More on KDP Select – Return to Writing

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Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing. More on KDP Select. September 25, 2014. Brian J. Jarrett. I’ve been mulling over KDP Select pretty hard the last couple of months. As I mentioned in the last post, I moved all my non-Badlands titles into Select to test it out. Today I opted in my Badlands books. Why, after all I said about Kobo sales increasing and non-Amazon markets making up 35% of my sales? Well, for starters I’m curious about a few things. How might Kindle Unlimited perform for me?

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Why Self-Published? – Return to Writing

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Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing. I wrote my first piece of fiction in fifth grade. After that I did some writing in junior high and then I moved on to some more serious writing in high school. By 1999 I had written a dozen or so short stories and a novel. I gave up, thinking I’d never get published. I wrote it off as a pipe dream. I finished school and became a programmer, a job that more than pays the bills and I really do enjoy. My dream had come true. I was a writer with. My name i...

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Hire My Editor – Return to Writing

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Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing. Many of the complaints I see about self-published books is poor editing. Spelling and grammar errors can suck the reader out of your story, ruining their experience and getting you on their blacklist. That’s why you need an editor. Sandi Powell holds a degree in English and does the copy editing. For all my books. She’ll copy edit your manuscript too. She does a terrific job of tightening up the writing while not changing your voice. Get A Free Book!

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2014 Wrap Up – Return to Writing

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Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing. December 31, 2014. Brian J. Jarrett. Believe it or not, 2014 is gone. Today is the last day of the year, so it seemed fitting to wrap up the year for me with what I’ve learned and what I have planned for 2015. I didn’t have much luck with Kindle Unlimited. I opted all my titles in in October and saw total borrows across all seven titles reach around 30 each month. My sales went down and my revenue went way down (a 30-40% drop). I wrote 40k words on a n...

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KDP Select Six-Week Update – Return to Writing

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Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing. KDP Select Six-Week Update. November 3, 2014. Brian J. Jarrett. I’ve been back in KDP Select for about six weeks now. In other words, around half of my required 90 day term. I mentioned before that I wanted to test the program again after being out of it for nearly two years. Here’s what I’ve found:. Quantity-wise, my sales are down. Not by much (if you include borrows), but they’re still down compared to the last few months. Was it a mistake? This has...

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Brian J. Jarrett – Return to Writing

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Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing. Author: Brian J. Jarrett. January 2, 2016. January 2, 2016. Brian J. Jarrett. In an effort to keep things closer to the chest, I’ll be hosting the blog on my own server from now on. The new blog will be clean and minimal, focused on the writing. Easier for me to maintain and easier for you to find the content you want. So follow me over to the new home at http:/ blog.brianjjarrett.com. January 2, 2016. Brian J. Jarrett. But that’s all good now be...