Starting To Hit Booktok More

18 04 2024

I overthink everything. My TikToks were little video productions and they were fun to make. But the productions were too onerous. So I’m trying a new approach which uses the little data I’ve gathered:

Short and personal. Anything longer than fifteen seconds and there is risk of drop off. Before, I avoided that drop off by putting book titles in the beginning. Now, if I want to produce a volume of ads, I need to be more flexible.

What do you think?





Sales Graphs for Fazgood! And Flesh Sutra on Audible!

15 03 2024

Yes! The numbers are tiny! Yes! This is the beginning of a small business! Yes!

What can I learn from these blips? First, see the peaks that go above the whole numbers, plus those tiny blips above zero? Those account for Kindle Unlimited page reads. Of what significance are these peaks?

The peaks are on days when I was active on Bluesky. Every Wednesday, I do #horrorwriterschat, which you know better as “Me Being Witty”. While Fazgood is a fantasy novel, I talk about its horrific elements as well as those for the Flesh books.

The total is about $20 in royalties.

But hey there! You like audiobooks?

“The Flesh Sutra” WILL SOON BE ON Audible!

It’s part of a beta test using Audible’s new virtual voice. I’m not crazy about using virtual voiceovers, but even I have to admit that the technology surprised me. Inflections, emphasis, transitions, all are anticipated. And the interface for adjusting pronunciation and creative direction are easy, if a little crude.

There was no way I or my publisher could afford the time or money for audio production. Just No Frigging Way were we gonna do this ourselves; I burned out my DIY long-production nerves back when I was the editor/producer for video and movies. And if the audiobook versions take off, we can budget then.

These are good things! My reflexive negativity is taking a beating today!





NEW TIKTOK DROPPED!

7 03 2024

@tim_w_burke

Fazgood and the Obstreperous Moosecrab Caper ch 1 read by author Tim W. Burke #fantasynovels #epicfantasybooks #terrypratchett #humortiktok

♬ original sound – Tim W Burke




First Reader Review For Fazgood!

1 03 2024

You can still be the first kid on your block to experience this bizarre, corrupt, intriguing humor! See this crazy-good world! Have a look at Fazgood!





Book Trailer for “Fazgood”!

22 01 2024




Fazgood Has A New Fan on Bluesky!

8 01 2024

This kind man with the winning smile enjoys the book, so why don’t you have a look? Fazgood is in paperback and on Kindle Unlimited. Click on the cover below now and take a peek.





Fazgood Is Business and Business Is Booming!

1 12 2023

Multiple-Nom Author Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen…

His readers are reading…

Hildy Silverman, author and editor…

Why wait for others to tell you, when you could be doing the bragging?

Let Fazgood steal his way into your heart this holiday! Let him in and then he’ll leave you, as he always leaves: with the locale literally ablaze!





World Fantasy Convention 2023, Pt 2: Writing “Do’s” With Adam Troy-Castro, Usman Malik, More

4 11 2023

With Ted Chiang, Phillip Dunlop, and a really good article by Annie Dillard.

The first panel I attended was Friday’s “The Worst Advice I Ever Received”. Translating the negative definitions were a little tricky, but here is what the panelists said THAT YOU SHOULD DO AND IS QUITE OKAY TO DO:

Adam Troy-Castro: “‘Said-Bookisms’ are OK. Use them.” (‘Said-Bookisms’ are when a character dialogue has ‘explained’ or ‘stated’ or any description of intention versus physicality. I use them sometimes to reinforce physicality, but maybe I’ll use them more).

Usman Malik: Quoting Annie Dillard’s article Write Till You Drop “You were made and sent here to give voice to your astonishment.”

Phillip Dunlop: “Never listen to your own advice.” (I phrase that often as “You got your own ass lost in the woods. To get out, get a Ranger.”)

Ted Chiang: “Writing for a living limits you.” (Meaning having to rely on writing to pay your bills urges you to write what is financially practical and stop experimenting.)

All: “Tax pros are worth the money.”

AT-C: “Do not listen to people who tell you to stop trying.”

UM: “What is ‘success’, anyway? Anyone can make salable art.”

PD: “Know your objective. Know your audience.”

AT-C: “Publishers, answer your emails.”

UM: “You can use slurs, as long as they are necessary to the plot.”

All: “There are no limits. Write your style.”

AT-C: “Editors and editorial staff are your friends. Be nice to them. Bring donuts.”





Pre-Order The Newest, Funniest Fantasy Of The Year! Only $3.99 for 120K Startling Words!

2 11 2023

An epic thief enters middle-age mad, bad, and dangerously neurotic. After a life of offending entire civilizations, that thief Fazgood smuggles himself and compatriots back into his home city…the city that Wants Him Dead. Once smuggled, he uncovers an earth-shattering secret, multiple traitor-ings, a new type of magic and more, all toward his goal: a home-cooked meal. Or did Fazgood send himself on a mission so secret that he himself doesn’t know the mission exists? To quote: “That is the sort of thing I would do, the bastard.”

Unorthodox plotline with a major twist! Death-defying, absurd heroism! Sensuous massages! Villains villains villains! A narrative voice that will make you say “does that word exist? and if not, it should!”

Meet Fazgood! His brilliant familiar Warren the weasel! Fazgood’s entourage: the panplasmic Calzjha!

Can Fazgood win the day? Can he defeat the villains and save the kingdom that Wants Him Dead? Will he get his fluxion-damned meal?

Pre-order now for ONLY $3.99! Do not wait! Your very soul needs this book!





NEW BOOK! Launching at World Fantasy Con!

18 10 2023

Follow the escapades of The Mad Earl Fazgood in this rollicking tale based on the should-be-true adventures of a delightfully bizarre nobleman run rampant.  

All seems straight-forward enough when Fazgood and his compatriots sail in search of his much beloved but ever-elusive moosecrab stew, despite everyone, everywhere wanting him dead for no good reason at all.  Sailing from port to port doesn’t seem to evade his executioners so Fazgood goes to the capital of the Kingdom, despite being an exile, hoping for at least one bowl of moosecrab stew before he must surely face his doom. 

Instead of moosecrab, however, Fazgood and his outrageous companions find corruption, deception, and an ancient talisman that could easily dissolve the very Kingdom he hates to love.

Fazgood finds himself conniving the highest ranks of society into helping him solve the problem of his imminent demise or, for that matter, the Kingdom’s.  And he does what any good hero would do: he crafts a plan so cunning, so secret, even he cannot fathom it.

Join the Mad Earl and his compatriots as they traverse a Kingdom filled with peaceful, god-ruled citizenry ranging from carnivorous plants to sorcerous gas bubbles.

Will he save the Kingdom that set him on his felonious life or will he let the Kingdom be digested?

And will he ever get his god-poxied moosecrab?

Do you like “Our Flag Means Death”? The absurdity of Terry Gilliam?

About 45 years in the making! All yours for Halloween!