Daniel J. Hogan's Blog

Thanks to the signing on Saturday, I've broken the 100 copies sold mark for The Magic of Eyri. For a self-published, little advertised novel this is a decent bench mark. Granted, I won't really get noticed until I hit something like 1,000 but it is a start. I'm at 107 copies sold at the moment and i couldn't be happier. Things are going pretty great so far this Spring: I was mentioned in the Lansing State Journal last week, Friday I was interviewed on the radio, Saturday I had a great signing and I'll be a guest panelist at Penguicon next month.

Because I hit the 100 mark, this means I get to adopt another animal at Lansing's Potter Park Zoo as part of my Eyri Cares program. For those that don't know, every time I reach a certain sales goal I adopt an animal at the Zoo. You can learn more about it at magicofeyri.com/cares. So far I have already adopted three animals. According to my chart, next up is the Golden Lion Tamarin.

In writing news, the deadline for the CatsCurious Press fairy tale submission I'm working is quickly approaching and I'm not done yet. But, I work better under pressure and I'm almost finished. I have till the 31st, it'll happen--I haven't missed a deadline yet. I can't really blame my nasty cold last week that much, the real culprit is my total lack of time management skills "Sure, I'll watch three episodes of Battlestar Galactica in row, why not?"

I'm going to have to change the way I run things around here and get better at setting time aside to work on stuff. But I am the type of person who once I get in the zone, I cannot be stopped.

These are pictures I've had on my phone for months and have been meaning to upload - finally got around to getting them off my phone last night. Sadly, most are a little out of focus. But beggars can't be choosers y'know, I'm glad I have some kind of pictures even if they aren't the best.

First from Capitol Books (I think that's the name) in downtown Lansing:

I only noticed last night when looking these over that I was right next to jimhines  book, Goblin Hero, on the shelf! Very neat. This was sometime during the summer and I went back into the store and this copy was gone, so hopefully that means someone sold it. They don't have any more copies at the moment but I'm very happy they sold this copy.

Next, these are at Schuler Books at their Eastwood Towne Center branch:

This was actually a few months ago, I think in mid-summer. They recently got a couple more copies (which I have signed) but they aren't on display like this at the moment, at least not the last time I was in there. There is one in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy section and another in the local author section (or Michigan section, whichever it is called).

Close-up (I guess) of the book at Schulers.

At some point I was at the Potter Park Zoo and looked over their Animal Adoption Honor Roll list. For those that don't know, I adopt an animal at the Zoo whenever I sell a certain amount of copies of the book. You can learn more about it at www.magicofeyri.com/cares.

This was after I adopted the Screech Owl and White-Eyed Assassin Bug. Either I wasn't on the list for the Pelican (my first adoption) or I forgot to snap a picture of it. And unbeknown to me - there is another me adopting animals! That is why I made sure to specify they list "Eyri Cares" after my name. See, those advertising and public relations classes paid off. There are too many Daniel Hogans out there, I honestly think that I'll have to use a different name if I ever get published by someone else.

Yeah...my camera phone ain't the best.

Now I need to get these on my websites in the near future.