It’s taken writing over 500,000 words to get here. From the first attempt of converting 13 television scripts into a novel to 100 drafts later to a near finished product to tossing it out and starting over. From turning the idea of five novels into five novellas and five novels to then deciding to write […]
Pete and Dorothea talk about participating in the recent Facebook Event: March to a Bestseller 2, genres, validation and the coming release of the first novel, Kneel & Prey. Mobile Users: Click here to listen to the episode. Topics Covered: Facebook Event Defining a New Genre First Novel Kneel & Prey Beta Reader Feedback Marketing […]
Many years ago I worked in television for a bit and, like everyone else, started out at the bottom. I was a runner/gopher for over a year. That meant I had to feed the crews, get lunches, run errands, etc. Some people may think that would be a waste of time or “below me,” but […]
I’m relieved. The first novel, Kneel & Prey, has been sent out to our first group of Beta Readers. These readers will read the book and let us know of any outstanding issues with the plot, character or grammar that we missed. Sending it off to Beta Readers is an important step. It means you’re […]
Readers love reading. That’s something I have to remind myself. I know what you’re saying. I’m an idiot for not knowing that already. I do know it. I promise. As I mentioned before, coming from a screenwriting background, I am an impatient writer (and reader). I want to get through the story and figure out […]
We talked about how best to introduce characters in your story. Now let’s talk about how stories should end. Some writers are called pantsers and some are plotters. Pantsers don’t know the end of the story before they begin. They discover the story as it goes along. Plotters plot out their story, knowing how it […]
As I mentioned in my last post, Kneel & Prey is the third time I’ve had to introduce the character of Gabby Wells in the series. The first attempt was in Water & Blood, the second was The Homecoming Incident and the third is Kneel & Prey. Each time I spent a lot of time […]
Writing is an odd experience in many ways. God-like in others. You have an idea. Just a flash in your mind of something that may be cool. You spend the next month or two doing your best to take that momentary splash of inspiration and get it onto paper. During that process, characters that started […]
The first draft of Kneel & Prey has been completed. If you’ve been following along, this isn’t so much a first novel, as a reboot. 🙂 The first novel, Water & Blood, became the fifth novel. The second first novel, The Homecoming Incident, was scrapped and will be offered later as a bonus. So the […]
Even though the title of the first Gabby Wells novel was finally released (Kneel & Prey), I have been writing the first draft of the story since the beginning of August. I originally set my word count goal at 50,000, but bumped it up to 65,000, because that’s the universally accepted length of an official […]
Sonlight Press is happy to announce the first novel in the Gabby Wells thriller series will be titled Kneel & Prey. In this fast-paced thriller by author Pete Bauer, Gabby Wells, a high school freshman from a small Florida town, tries to stop a fellow student who lost his father in the war on terror […]
I hate political correctness for many, many reasons. One of them is that it’s social pressure limits creativity. Right now, the only person that can be the butt of jokes is an average white guy, usually a dad. Watch commercials on TV. How many of them show a white guy/dad being stupid? A lot. Too […]
The movie screens are full of superheroes. From rich vigilantes who like to dress up in costume, to billionaire businessmen who create their own body armor to scientists who went too far to aliens who protect us from their fellow alien bad guys, superheroes are everywhere. Granted, the comic book generation has been around for […]
This happens to me a lot. When I outline my book where the climax takes place at a certain place/time, I backtrack and plot when the things leading up to it should happen. Invariably, as I write the actual story, things that I sketched out would take three weeks in the novel occur in a […]
For a business owner, one of the hardest goals to achieve is to duplicate your income. For brick and mortar stores, like fast food restaurants or furniture stores, the only way to double your income is to duplicate your location somewhere else. Like franchising. The great thing about being a writer is every book you […]
Author Pete Bauer gives a tour of Safety Harbor, the small town that he used as inspiration for the setting of the Gabby Wells novels.
Independent publishing is substantially cheaper than its ever been. With Amazon and other distributors offering to distribute your ebook for a small fee and print your print book on-demand with nearly zero up front costs, publishing your book on your own has never been easier. However, to be taken seriously in the market and compete […]
Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer talk about the various marketing research and strategies they plan to employ with the release of their first book. They’ll also talk about the process of finding the correct voice for a novel and how that impacted the other work. Mobile Users: Click here to listen to the episode. Topics […]
Now that we’re turning the novellas into novels, we’ll have to change some of the titles. Here’s why. The original titles of the five books included an ampersand. The first two are Water & Blood and Shadows & Lies. For marketing purposes, we’d want to make all of the titles consistent, so we’re going to […]
I finished the first draft of Lost & Found this week and the writing process for this novel allowed me to finally find the correct voice and tone for all of the Gabby Wells novels. It was weird to me that it took two novels (that have since been trashed) and three novellas to find […]
