Since Lulu.com is now in production mode of my “three-e-books-in-one” The Prodigal Band Trilogy, now is a good time to rehash “the why” I created these books beginning years ago.
Continue reading “About The Prodigal Band Trilogy: the Why Parts 1 Through 5”
Divine inspiration–something!–caused me to go outside within the beauty of star-surging sky around midnight in the early 90s and receive a “message” to finally get those rock band characters out of my head and onto paper, and then computer. God? Angels? Spirits? Because it was not the devil or demons–the devil or demons would not want me to create a trilogy about a rock band fighting evil (and, after a miraculous event in 1997, accept Christ as Savior!).
Continue reading “The Reality of Why I Wrote My Books–I Had To.”
I began writing a book that would eventually work its way into three books that make up the Prodigal Band Trilogy–Battle of the Band, The Prophesied Band, and The Prodigal Band–back in the late 1960s in diary form as the characters morphed from just a group of guys in a gang or a clique, with or without girlfriends, living on Long Island-then-New York City, to rock musicians with or without girlfriends, living in England. Why the morph? Because of my own interest in rock music as well as actually having participated in a local band for a few months, and having gone to England in 1970, as well as the notion I had the rock bands from England were more worthy overall than American ones (and Brit bands were my fave bands anyway.) These topics have been discussed in previous posts here and on my blog.
The names and looks of the characters were created in the mid-60s with other characters being created in the mid-80s, which was when I started getting serious about the books, which was still just one book novel. But instead of a diary to write stuff that would later make up the book(s), I just wrote on notepad paper with pen.
Continue reading “About The Prodigal Band Trilogy: The Theme-Good Triumphs over Evil”
I have been on the WordPress Writer/Author scene since mid-February, 2018, and have read dozens of posts by newbies and established writers-authors and bloggers who have advice on writing and self-publishing. Read the advice, but, folks, you have to figure this one out yourselves, even if you lose money in the process. I am what one would call a “tactile learner,” that is, I learn by doing.
For instance, I learned by foolishly trying to transfer a domain from BlueHost, who claimed to be ICANN registered but aren’t (or else why would they send me an e-mail stating I needed to go through whois@BlueHost.com, when Whois is part of ICANN? WHOIS LOOK-UP is indeed part of ICANN), that transferring a domain is a fool’s errand unless you already have done such a thing in the past and succeeded. So, all I could do was withdraw my complaint against BlueHost. BlueHost can throw my domain I paid for in the trash, or hand it over to some whatever for free. When the domain comes up for renewal I will not be renewing it.
Back to the original storyline.
In the mid-1990s I joined a local far west Texas writer’s group called ‘Texas Mountain Trail Writers.’ While working on the first printed novel I would call Battle of the Band, I needed ‘tutoring’ so-to-speak on absolutely what had to go into the novel to make it a legitimate novel, to market and sell the thing–that is, get some literary agent to ‘sell’ it to a big time publisher. No literary agent came a-calling, so I had to do it myself.
Continue reading “Being a ‘Non-Conformist’ Author: You Don’t Always Have to ‘Follow the Script’”
Well, BlueHost is “unable” to transfer my omegabooks.net site over to WordPress either because they screwed up or I did (and I think we both did, but here’s the thing: I am 65 years old and no techie…web hosting has gone from the old days on BlueHost with html code and c-panels to today hosting with thousands of gadgets I have no idea about…fortunately I do know something about ‘JetPack’!) I have explained all about the ten hours or so I wasted yesterday, Thursday, April 12, talking to BlueHost techies on the phone or WordPress techies through online chat. And I will say this, the WordPress techies are better than the BlueHost ones! Since BlueHost DELETED my domain after I unlocked it and got the EPP code…well, read the rest of the story here
Since this will become a Premium plan domain site in the next couple of days—folks the weekend is coming and sometimes things you do on websites don’t work too well on weekends (I mean these online chat folks need time off too you know!)–the site ‘omegabooksnet.wordpress.com’ will some become (I hope, unless ‘trouble’ happens again!) THE site where one can access my FREE PDF novel The Prodigal Band as well as access buying my other printed novels, Battle of the Band and The Prophesied Band.
Cheers to all followers, comment posters, and likers of posts on both websites.
First off Bluehost, the previous web host, would not unlock my domain automatically and it took talking to a customer rep on phone to unlock it, and then I had to get something called an EPP code which would expire in fifteen minutes from the time I received it, and I was about to cancel the whole deal on my credit card (but since the charge is “pending” they wouldn’t cancel it until about a week from now….) so since WordPress doesn’t have customer reps by phone I had to use the “help” deal which usually didn’t answer right way, but this time it did!
Talk about screeds!
But anyway, I got a hold of a very very good customer rep who actually walked me through the whole process (and I could use the EPP code I was given an hour before). So now all I have to do is wait for WHOIS to verify that I want to send the domain to WordPress! Gee I hope I don’t get error messages like I got from BlueHost!
Word to the wise: if you want a WordPress domain, register it through WordPress!
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