Sep 9, 2025
Title: Bright Eyes | Author: David Kudler | Publisher: Stillpoint Digital Press (2022)
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Title: Bright Eyes | Author: David Kudler | Publisher: Stillpoint Digital Press (2022)
Title: Risuko | Author: David Kudler | Publisher: Stillpoint Digital Press (2016)
Bright Eyes Audiobook Available at Audible & iTunes!
We are excited to announce the release of the audiobook edition of Bright Eyes (Seasons of the Sword #2) by David Kudler! Read by award-winning narrator Allison Hiroto, the unabridged recording of the second Seasons of the Sword book is available at risuko.net and stillpointdigital.com, as well as on Audible (US, UK, Australia, and more!) and iTunes/Apple Books! To help spread the word, we’ll…
Risuko, My Father, and Toxic Masculinity
I’ll tell yeh, Bright Eyes. Men and women? A bloody mess. Every single time. — Kee Sun on sex and gender, Risuko Is “toxic masculinity” just a way of saying men are toxic? I get asked a lot about why I decided to write about young women in my Seasons of the Sword novels. There are lots of reasons. But an online conversation I was part of recently made one of them very clear to me. In the…
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Ursula K Le Guin -- Grandmaster
Ursula K Le Guin — Grandmaster
As an author of young adult books, I’ve been asked many times about the authors who had the greatest impact on me. I’ll often start by mentioning Maurice Sendak, which people assume is a joke, but isn’t. Next, I’ll mention Ursula K. Le Guin, the late author of science fiction and fantasy. I first encountered her writing when I was around 12 years old when I stumbled across (more…)
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The Hero's Journey ® as a writing tool
The Hero’s Journey ® as a writing tool
Last summer, I had a really interesting conversation with Scott Calhoun of the Inner Typewriter about Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey® and how authors can use it to enrich and focus their writing:
Among other things, I look at Risuko, and how my work on it reflects the Hero Journey.
The Hero’s Journey is a registered trademark of…
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You CAN Tell an (e)Book by Its Cover - Written By David Kudler
You CAN Tell an (e)Book by Its Cover – Written By David Kudler
I found a really fascinating blog post, written by David Kudler, where he writes about book covers. Thank you very much David.
While the truism “You can’t tell a book by its cover” holds true in most of our lives, one place where it doesn’t, ironically, is in publishing.
Oh, it’s still true — the cover doesn’t necessarily communicate what’s inside (though it should). But potential readers…
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KDP Keywords Revisited
Readers of my blog will no doubt be aware of the importance of the categories and keywords your book uses. From using Amazon categories to increase your rankings to the perils of using keywords like Free, Bestseller, and Kindle, they can be used to optimize your book page. But, as I often say, book marketing is like building on quicksand: everything changes every other month.
No, it’s not that…
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