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There is a ceiling to conventional book marketing. Ads get attention.Launch pages convert.Kickstarters raise funding. But most campaigns stop at visibility and transaction. Very few deepen immersion. Over the past year, I’ve been building something designed to change that. Not a video game.Not an app.Not a gimmick. A contained, browser-based narrative experience that lets readers […]

Kickstarter has become one of the most powerful tools in modern publishing. Authors are raising six figures.Launching deluxe editions.Turning loyal readers into superfans. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: Most fiction Kickstarters still rely on the same tired mechanics as standard book marketing. Early bird tiers.Signed copies.Stretch goals.Bonus chapters. And ads. Lots of ads. It works.But […]

Open any publishing group and you will see the same advice repeated. Run Facebook ads.Optimize Amazon ads.Stack newsletter promotions.Increase impressions.Scale traffic. And none of that advice is wrong. Paid traffic works. But here is the real question. If everyone is running ads, how do you stand out? The Visibility Arms Race Digital marketing has become […]

If you are an indie author, you were told early on that you need a website. So you built one. You added: Maybe a blog. And then you moved on. That is normal. But here is the uncomfortable truth. Your author website is probably one of the most underutilized marketing assets you own. The Problem […]

If you search for new ways to market your book, you will find the same advice repeated everywhere. Run ads.Build a newsletter.Post on social media.Assemble an ARC team.Create launch buzz. All of this works. But it all shares one common trait. It is designed to capture attention. Very little of it is designed to deepen […]

Should Authors Add Interactive Experiences to Their Books? For centuries, storytelling has lived primarily on the page. Readers imagine worlds, characters, and events through words alone. That core experience isn’t going anywhere and it shouldn’t. But something new is emerging alongside traditional storytelling: interactive story experiences. These aren’t video games replacing books. They’re short, optional, […]

I CAN’T BELIEVE IT!!! It’s official. Orbem Studio is now live and ready for all of you to start building your own WordPress website based video games! The WordPress plugin is now available for install from the WP Directory here: In these early days of use I expect plenty of bugs and feature requests so […]

You sure can! With a ton of perseverance and a lot of WordPress programming knowledge you can do anything in WordPress: even build the world’s first WordPress based video game engine. Introducing OGE (Orbem Game Engine) Ex Disney, Warner Bros. and Universal WordPress programmer Scott V. Adrian has taken on the challenge of developing the […]

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The time has come. Book 2 of the Homonian Chronicles and highly anticipated sequel to the award winning 5 star Sci-Fi novel “Orbem” has been published today! The Premise: Me and my friends escaped certain death in our universe and are now stuck in Orbem. Though I wonder, is it better to fight a super-powered […]