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Kobo, and Small Bites and FREE!

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In preparation for putting “Small Bites- the Complete Collection” out all of the original Small Bite books are up on Kobo right now.

In fact, Small Bites 1 is free. So, if you’re reading this you could do me a big favor if you go to the Amazon listing and click on “tell us about a lower price” under the product details. Tell them it is on Kobo for free at this link:

http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/Books/small-bites-1

That way Amazon will price match me.

“Small Bites- the Complete Collection” is almost finished. I should have it up and available tomorrow. I just need to finish up a few edits. The paperback will take a little longer since I have to do a new cover. But thank you for your patience. This is my first major release and next time it will be so much smoother.

Yes, I wrote that!

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The new SPRT, episode 4, is out.

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We had an interview with author Lisa Grace about her movie deal, and how she weathered the trials and tribulations of dealing with lawyers, producers, and publishers to bring her indie book series to the movies.

Also, John ate his words.

If you recall, last week I published “The Pretty Leaf” for free because one of my co-hosts, John Ward, took a shot at flash-fic. And here John is, saying how great “The Pretty Leaf” really was.

I’ve had some great responses from people about “The Pretty Leaf”, and I’m really glad I wrote it. I hope you will share it with others, comment, like, or even print out to give away.

Stories are better when they are shared.

 

My co-hosts–  Carl Sinclair |  Wade Finnegan  |  Bill Dowis  |  John Ward

Updates all around!

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The latest episode of Self Publishing Round Table: Episode 2 is now up and ready for your viewing pleasure. And I HAVE A CAMERA! So you can see me laughing, blushing, and getting flustered in recorded time. Awesome!

WATCH IT HERE!!!

My co-hosts–  Carl Sinclair |  Wade Finnegan  |  Bill Dowis  |  John Ward

Also, I have eight books up now, and a few hopefully coming soon.

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That about sums up the updates for now. I’ll to a more in depth post later.

A New Book, and the Next Book

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“Small Bites 3” is now out.

The third installment of the Small Bites dark, flash fiction stories.

And it already has one 5 star review! Awesome.

BUT! Because of this book, and how publication is gong lately, I think I am going to have to take a one week break from publishing.

The goal was to publish one book a week until I had a nice selection of books available on Amazon. I wanted each publication to be on Friday night for the weekend. Ideal would have been Thursday, so that it would be available on Friday morning.

But with everything going on, my new podcast, D&D once a week, and general family time… I need to get ahead a week in order to have the Thursday night release.

With my schedule I generally end up finishing the stories sometime around Friday night, Saturday afternoon. Then I scramble to get the formatting and everything finished, along with a few last minute edits. That means I don’t actually get to hit “PUBLISH” until about 2 am.

Because I want it out for the weekend, not just part of the weekend, I think I need to finish it that weekend, and release it the next Thursday night. That will give me time to catch up on a few things.

camera2The next one scheduled is The Camera, the second book in the Illicit Gains series.

Expect it on July 6th.

And to get any of my books, including a paper back version of “Osiren’s Tears”, check out my Amazon Page.

My New Podcast!

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I’ve actually been thinking of how to add audio or video podcasts to my blog. I’m rather afraid of speaking in public though, so doing it on my own didn’t seem very appealing.

Enter the snazzy group of guys who follow Self Publishing Podcast, and Story Telling Podcast and they decided to do their own podcast, and invited me to join.

We will be discussing the two podcasts we all follow, and anything else interesting in the publishing world. News, articles, controversy, etc.

No idea how this is going to work, or if it will go smoothly. I don’t really care, it sounds fun.

So, look for our new podcast this friday. I will post a link, and embed a video.

Published! AGAIN!

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The Ring

 

My new title, The Ring, is a paranormal thriller. Just under 3000 words. It is 99 cents for the weekend and will be going up to $2.99 on Tuesday. (I’m giving it a couple extra days since I had technical issues and it didn’t actually get published until this morning. It will be available on both Amazon, and Kobo sometime later today.

The Ring is a modern, paranormal, fantasy, and is the first in a five book series. Each book will focus on one of the items, and some of the things that happen because of them.

I suppose it is a lot like “Warehouse 13”, the old “Friday the 13th” tv series, or “The Room” tv series. One item, one shenanigan, and a close. I might have to write more then five episodes if people like it.

Next week “Small Bites 3” will be out. I am hoping to have all four small bites, and the accompanying “Small Bites 1-4” book out by the end of the month.

The only thing that worries me, just a little bit, is that eventually I’m going to run out of half finished stories, and this once a week publishing is going to slow down. I guess I just need to learn to write faster.

I also ordered, and received, some stickers for my book covers. Once I got the book covers in my hand I realized just how much I loved them all. I’ll be giving some out at PAX, so if you’re there let me know.

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Some Authorly Love

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Got some really great reviews from the guys over at The Story Telling Podcast.

“She’s great at flash fiction” V.C. Coll (author of The Miscellaneous Adventures of Princess Leona)

Prophecy by Barlight is “Cute and humorous.” Garrett Robinson (author Hit Girls, Non-zombie, etc)

And Z.C. Bolger (author of Danny Calloway and the Puzzle House) just got inspired to write something when he read “Necropolis“, but he’s waiting until I finish “Forgotten Ones”.

*Happy dance!*

Around the Web

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It’s been a while since I did an “Around the Web” post, so I thought I should catch up.

In the news this week, the biggest thing is the protests in Turkey. Huge protests, with thousands of people marching against the police. There are amazing pictures coming out of Turkey, and a lot of chatter on Reddit from people who are actually there, and what is going on.

I hope they make some headway…

Now, for the rest of the news.

Hugh Howie talks about indie authors who make a living writing.

Hugh Howie also plugged an Anne Rice video on “how to be a writer.” Hint: Go WRITE!

Neil Gaiman talks about the book that made him.

Neil Gaiman’s speach, “Make Good Art”, is now in a book form.

George R.R. Martin wrote 250k words for The World of Ice and Fire.

An Anne McCaffery tribute book will be out soon.

John Green claims Penguin to be the most effective publishing house for YA.

And non writing related…

An old video of a 7-11 at 2am from back in the 80’s. I forgot people use to smoke inside stores.

For a moment of levity, Tim Burton inspired Pokemon.

Someone did a minecraft world simulation, 1:1500 scale.

 

Sales and Confidence

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When I first started publishing I was a little worried. Worried no one would like it, worried I would make a bad name for myself, worried I’d never sale one… etc. etc.

But it’s actually going better then I thought it would. Sure, I’ve only had 22 sales, and 48 freebies… but that’s 60+ people that read my book.

What’s even better, I have only 4 and 5 star reviews. That makes me think I’m on the right track, even if it is a slow track.

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On that note… I’ll be putting out Small Bites 2 next week. Now that I have some momentum I want to keep that going. I am working on several projects at once so that I will (hopefully) be able to publish something new every Friday for a while.

Books will come out as 99 cents for the first weekend, and then go up, except the Small Bites series. They will stay 99 cents as they are really short.

Then, once all the Small Bites are out, I will stick them up as one set for 2.99 (which gets you one book for free). And I will also be working to put out a big book of all my short stories eventually. No idea what I will price it at yet.

But for right now… Small Bites 2, and we’ll worry about everything else later.

Prophecy By Barlight, Get It While It’s Hot!

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A prophecy taunts the proprietor of a little bar, until he can’t take it anymore. Mayhem ensues.

A prophecy taunts the proprietor of a little bar, until he can’t take it anymore. Mayhem ensues.

 

Prophecy by Barlight is out, and available for this weekend only at 99 cents.

After this weekend it will go up to $2.99.

So get it while it’s HOT!

Prophecy by Barlight is a comedic tale about a barkeep, and his desire to get rid of a prophecy. He’s willing to go to some extremes to do it, too.