From the link at the end of your post, I went to your blog and I am still reading your blog. I just ordered one of your book - Rookie's Guide to Options. I also ordered two other option book, The Volatility Edge in Options Trading: New Technical Strategies for Investing in Unstable Markets, and The Bible of Options Strategies: The Definitive Guide for Practical Trading Strategies. I hope I will learn a lot about option from your book. Thanks for the warning about difficulty of making money from buying options.
There are tradeoffs with every strategy. You could put on much bigger positions with options, have a fixed max risk and make a bundle. But in order to do so, you're going to have to be right not only about the direction but in a specific time frame. Don't knock small gains. You'd be surprised how they add up when you trade volume and control the net losses. You can even achieve that with a high win rate despite a less than even dollar win/loss ratio or a lower win rate with a higher dollar win/loss ratio. It's the bottom line that matters.