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A Vet’s Take: Quit Jerking-Off
I'm a veteran. Many, if not most, of my friends are veterans as well. My social media feeds are full of veterans--some I know in real life, some who are friends of friends. In the aftermath of the attacks in Paris, you can't swing a dead cat around my Facebook feed without hitting a dozen posts from veterans proclaiming their readiness to gut every ISIS bastard they can find and fill their chest cavities with [...]
Tom Ricks Reviews ‘Continuing Actions’
Tom Ricks has an impressive resume. With five books under his belt (including the best-seller Fiasco), a Pulitzer prize for his reporting with the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and contributing editor for Foreign Policy Magazine, Tom has made a career out of calling bullshit on things that don't seem right. Which is why I am so very pleased with his review of my second book, Continuing Actions. Here's [...]
Marketing Strategy: Reviews
You are probably saying "What? Why's Dan writing about his marketing strategy on his blog about coming home from war?" Well, because it involves you, that's why. As you probably know, I've just published my second book, Continuing Actions. Now that the book is available on amazon.com, my efforts shift from production to marketing. Hence, this post. The most valuable marketing tool available to a self-published author are the reviews posted on the book's amazon.com product [...]
Continuing Actions Is Now Available On Amazon
I'm very pleased to announce that my second book, Continuing Actions: A Warrior's Guide to Coming Home is available for purchase at the following link: Continuing Actions: A Warrior's Guide to Coming Home I have written several posts explaining what this book is about, how it is different from my first one, and why I chose to write it. I won't rehash any of that here and will just close with this: Continuing Actions is the book [...]
What’s In A Cover?
As the release of Continuing Actions: A Warrior's Guide to Coming Home draws near, I thought I'd share a little bit about the cover design that the team from Ascent created for it. I might be able to write, but that is where my creative talents end--I am not a visual arts kind of guy. For both of my books, I have outsourced the creation of the cover design with little-to-no guidance about what I wanted [...]
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