JIMMY STU LIVES! By Kent McDaniel. Penumbra Publishing. 2012. Cover by Joe Staton. Jimmy Stu Sloan is a succesful preacher who has a thriving mega church and a loyal flock of believers. But all is not well with the reverend. He has health problems and isn’t as strong of a believer as most of his […]
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Review from Midwest Book Review
May 2, 2013 
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Midwest Book Review recently printed a a short (but kind) review of my novel, Jimmy Stu Lives!. It reads as follows: Jimmy Stu Lives! Kent McDaniel Penumbra Publishing $9.99, http://www.amazon.com The words of faith are easy to skew to corruption. Jimmy Stu Lives! is a novel following a twenty-first century preacher who awakens in the […]
Read moreSelf-publishing an e-Book
April 19, 2013 0 Comments
I’ve always been leery of self-publishing. For one thing, I dislike the idea of paying someone to publish my work. I feel it should be the other way around. Besides which, I know that the vast majority–and I mean vast–of self-published books sell almost nothing. Maybe a couple hundred copies if the writer’s lucky. When […]
Read moreTo KDP Select or Not to…
January 26, 2013 4 Comments
The Kind Direct Publishing (KDP) Select program is one under which an author gives Amazon exclusive right to distribute his or her book. The most touted advantage of this is that it allows the writer to give away copies of the book, in the Kindle store for a period of five days every three months. […]
Read morePreliminary Cover Sketches for JIMMY STU LIVES!
March 11, 2012 4 Comments
My novel Jimmy Stu Lives!, a satire set in the framework of a science-fiction adventure, should be coming out sometime next month from Penumbra Publishing (www.penumbrapublishing.com) . Joe Staton, an artist whose work I very much admire, is doing the cover for it. Joe and I were both in Southern Fandom Press Alliance (SFPA ) back in the Sixties […]
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