Gary Richardson Author Blog

For many people, after they've purchased something, whether it be a book, a blender, or anything else, once the purchase has been made then that is the end of the transaction. The only caveat to that is unless there is a problem. People will generally voice their complaints about a bad product, bad service, etc., after the fact but it is growing increasingly rare to have positive experiences recounted at a later date.

I have noticed a growing trend of companies emailing consumers to prompt them for reviews of their purchases days or weeks after the purchase was made. Authors like myself are constantly using our social media channels to encourage readers to leave us reviews. Some authors, myself included, run promotions to give away free books to potential readers who might leave a review.

Product reviews are a constant struggle to obtain but even when reviews are left there are different qualities of reviews.

So what makes a good review?

As 2022 gets underway, I continue my publishing journey for The Ascension Legacy series. Books 1 & 2 are already released. Book 3 is slated for release later this year....

My wife and I recently watched the 2nd season of Cheer on Netflix. We live in Corsicana where Navarro College is and both know a number of people who have gone through those halls either educationally, athletically, or professionally. It is kind of cool to watch a show that features your hometown, especially when that hometown is barely more than 30,000 people and its other claim to fame are fruit cakes. And it is neat to get a better idea of what goes into cheerleading outside of what you see on the sidelines at games. Growing up, I thought of sports as things like football and baseball. Cheerleading and band weren't sports to me but after having kids you participated in band, something that was never an option for me growing up, and watching Cheer, I've gotten a new perspective and respect for those sports and those who participate in them. Never let anyone tell you that neither are physically challenging or less stressful than say football or basketball. The all require physical fortitude, mental focus, and come with risk of injury. All carry with them serious competitions that carry significant weight on their futures.

When it comes to getting a book published there are three typical ways of doing it: finding a traditional publisher (which is hard to do unless your famous), 100% self-publishing (where you literally do everything yourself), or going through what others deem "vanity" publishers (someone who will publish your book for a fee). Today, I'm not going to talk about the pros and cons of each style or debate which method is best. Instead, I'm going to walk you through a detailed timeline of how working with my publisher, Newman Springs Publishing, which would fall into the vanity publisher category for this purpose, lead to my first book in The Ascension Legacy series to reach the market.

In today’s connected, online society it is usually the people, posts, and comments that are controversial that generate the most buzz. Those who do not like to post such things...

Thanks to today's online world and access almost anybody can be a published author. But there is a caveat to that title. Many authors choose to go the way of 100% self-publishing. Others go through what are considered vanity publishers who help authors get published in a similar fashion as those who do it all themselves. And then there is the traditional published authors how sign publishing contracts with major publishing houses and typically are represented by an agent.

Money Ain’t Loyal is something of a crime drama written by Nigerian author Daniel Junior. The book was published in 2021 and is available in paperback and digital ebook.

The plot revolves around a Russian convict looking to get revenge on a former colleague in the drug trade that he felt certain had betrayed him and was the reason he was sent to jail. At the same time, the story intertwines the efforts of a Russian immigrant named Natasha who is searching for her father following her mother’s death. The rub of it all is that Natasha has only an old picture but no name or other significant details to help her identify the biological father she never met.