Category: Royalties
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On Writing and Storytelling: The Weight of Small Corrections
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Brazil, Amazon Canada, Amazon Germany, Amazon Italy, Amazon Japan, Amazon Mexico, Amazon Poland, Amazon Spain (Amazon.es), Amazon Sweden, Amazon UK, Books, Creative Writing, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Reunion: Coda, Royalties, The Jim Garraty Chronicles, The Jim Garraty Chronicles (Series), Writing and Editing, Writing as a CraftThursday, September 10, 2026 – Orlando, Florida Hi, there. I’m off to a late start with my blogging today. Partly because I’m physically and mentally exhausted from stress and anxiety, but mostly because I had to make a minor but necessary correction to The Jim Garraty Chronicles in the section devoted to Reunion: Coda. It…
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Thoughts and Musings for Saturday, August 29, 2026
Saturday, August 29, 2026 – Orlando, Florida It’s early afternoon here in my corner of Orange County, Florida this last Saturday of August. The weather is typical of the late summer months in the subtropical zone; it’s hot, humid, and we’re expecting thunderstorms to pass through the area. I’m not surprised; I’m a native Floridian…
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Thoughts and Musings for Friday, August 21, 2026
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Brazil, Amazon Canada, Amazon Germany, Amazon Italy, Amazon Japan, Amazon Mexico, Amazon Poland, Amazon Spain (Amazon.es), Amazon Sweden, Amazon UK, Book Reviews, Books, Comings and Goings: The Art of Being Seen, Creative Writing, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Reunion: A Story, Royalties, The Jim Garraty Chronicles, The Jim Garraty Chronicles (Series), The Summer of Two MoviesFriday, August 21, 2026 – Orlando, Florida Hi, everyone. It’s afternoon on a spectacularly hot and potentially rainy late summer day in Central Florida. Currently, the temperature is a sizzling 94°F (35°C) under partly sunny skies, but with a weak 3 MPH (5 Km/H) breeze blowing from the east southeast and humidity at 58%, it…
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A Glimmer of Modest Good News on a Humid Late Summer Morning
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Thoughts and Musings for Friday, August 7, 2026
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Brazil, Amazon Canada, Amazon Germany, Amazon Italy, Amazon Japan, Amazon Mexico, Amazon Poland, Amazon Reviews, Amazon Spain (Amazon.es), Amazon Sweden, Amazon UK, Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Books, Comings and Goings: The Art of Being Seen, Creative Writing, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Royalties, Royalties, The Jim Garraty Chronicles, The Jim Garraty Chronicles (Series), The Summer of Two MoviesFriday, August 7, 2026 – Orlando, Florida It is a dreary, stormy late summer day in Central Florida. It has been raining heavily here for the past 30 minutes, which keeps the otherwise torrid temperatures down to a tolerable level but nevertheless makes for a somewhat depressing environment. Right now, the temperature is 85°F (29°C),…
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On Writing and Storytelling: Books, Breaks, and the Business of Being Bad at Marketing
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On Writing and Storytelling: What I’m Doing in My Late Summer Sabbatical
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Brazil, Amazon Canada, Amazon Germany, Amazon Italy, Amazon Japan, Amazon Mexico, Amazon Poland, Amazon Spain (Amazon.es), Amazon Sweden, Amazon Sweden, Amazon UK, Books, Comings and Goings: The Art of Being Seen, Creative Writing, Goodreads, Kindle, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Royalties, South Miami High School in fiction, South Miami Senior High School, The Best of All Possible Planets, The Jim Garraty Chronicles, The Summer of Two MoviesTuesday, August 4, 2026 – Orlando, Florida Hi, everyone. Pull up a chair, pour something cold if you’re in Florida like I am, and let’s catch up. I’m still on a sabbatical from literary fiction after a busy three-year stretch that produced Reunion: Coda, Comings and Goings – The Art of Being Seen, The Summer…
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On Writing and Storytelling: Buy Now…or Buy Later
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Brazil, Amazon Canada, Amazon Germany, Amazon Italy, Amazon Japan, Amazon Mexico, Amazon Poland, Amazon Reviews, Amazon Spain (Amazon.es), Amazon Sweden, Amazon Sweden, Amazon UK, Book Reviews, Books, Comings and Goings: The Art of Being Seen, Creative Writing, Goodreads, Kindle, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Royalties, The Jim Garraty Chronicles, The Jim Garraty Chronicles (Series)Thursday, July 23, 2026 – Orlando, Florida Hi, everyone. Well, it’s been a few days since I uploaded the latest—and, I hope, final—batch of fixes for The Jim Garraty Chronicles: A Life in Four Movements to the Kindle Direct servers. From what I can tell after reading through the Reunion: Coda section on my Kindle…
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A Writer, Not a Programmer, Battles the Subheadings
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Spain (Amazon.es), Amazon UK, Comings and Goings: The Art of Being Seen, Creative Writing, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Central Florida, Life in Florida, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Royalties, Summer 2026, Summer in Florida, The Jim Garraty Chronicles, The Summer of Two MoviesWednesday, July 8, 2026 – Orlando, Florida Happy Hump Day, dear readers! Well, here we are at midweek, and my little corner of Central Florida has apparently been set to “steam-clean.” As I write this, it is a torrid 92°F (33°C) under mostly sunny skies, with a heat index of 104°F (40°C)—the kind of number…
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On Writing and Storytelling: Between the Work I Want and the Work That Needs Doing
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A Certain Point of View, Too 