I’ve been taking a Twitter hiatus for a while and am finally all recharged and social-media-detoxed, so I’ve started going back on there to mostly read. This morning I noticed a bunch of replies on a game dev hot take in my feed, with seemingly mostly polite discourse addressed to someone named “Mike”.

Let’s talk about self-publishing.

Amazon

Amazon dominates the self-publishig world. Amazon has a program called Kindle Direct Publishing, in which you can upload your ebooks and paperbacks for publication on the Amazon marketplace.

I’ve started playing around with TypeScript for the first time over the last couple of weeks and it is excellent. I’ve made a few hobby JS games in the past as you can see from the games page. JavaScript was always fun for me, but after years of statically typed languages I have grown to prefer them.

I know meditation is good for me, but I’ve never been able to stick with the darn stuff. I just…don’t do it. I do something else - anything else - instead. I’m always too busy, or too anxious or excited to move on to other things.

I have been editing the next science fiction book. The plan is to hire an editor to go through it as well, since the previous books made enough income to pay for that. Editing will be the first service I pay for in my self-publishing journey. If things continue to go well, I might start buying proper on-market covers as the next step (but I also really like designing my own covers, so we’ll see…it’s just that I know nothing I come up with will be as good as a professional cover designer in my genre).