“The Mad God’s Muse” is ready to go. I will do one final pass to make sure I haven’t done anything stupid to break things, like I did yesterday. I did an automatic replace of all double spaces to single, and somehow managed to replace them with zero spaces instead, introducing a lot of unintentional types. And, yeah, this was after I had the book proofread. (facepalm)
Oh, it doesn’t end there. I decided it would be a good idea to update “The Dead God’s Due” as well, in prep for releasing MGM. I discovered this morning that I had released DGD with a ton of missing space typos, and set to work fixing it, with much gnashing of teeth, tearing of hair, and wailing. See, it doesn’t end there, either. (double facepalm)
Did I mention I was running an ad for DGD today? No? Well, I am, and anyone who actually buys a copy today will get a typo-filled mess. It takes many hours for Amazon to actually update the book after I upload the fix, so I am sitting here agonizing, hoping no one will buy any copies until it updates. (triple facepalm)
I guess it is what it is. At least I caught it soon.
Now to get the createspace version in place.
I am in the home stretch for the second book in the series. It’s finished, but I want to make sure it’s the best I can possibly do with the time I have. I can’t take a pass through and not find something I hate, some thud I want to change, some passive voice tossed in that could be excised. It will never really be ‘done’, in that I can no longer find fault with it. It will only be ‘done’ in the sense that I must let it go and move on.
Since I actually set up the preorder page on Amazon, I hard a hard time limit, and that’s probably for the best.
Did well enough yesterday to get featured in ebookdaily. Thanks for helping spread the word, guys!
Closing in on 2000 downloads in the past 24 hours, and made like #89 on Amazon’s Top 100 free, as well as #5 in Free Dark Fantasy, and #11 Free under Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Hopefully, that will translate into some decent exposure for the series!
With “The Mad God’s Muse” coming out in July, I am doing some freebie days for “The Dead God’s Due” to let folks catch up.
Enjoy, and pass it along to your friends!
It’s a nice, dark little sword and sorcery tale. Enjoy, share, and leave a review if you can! I need word of mouth!
Preorder campaign launched on Amazon.
Preorder now!
Day 1 of 5, hit #2 in Free Short SciFi/Fantasy Reads, and #4 in Short Reads Lit and Fiction. If you have people to share this with, please do. Let’s get it out there!
Grab it for free. It’s a fun, short read, a slightly different take on your typical zombie story.
Ok, milestone in the 3rd novel, one that took me much longer than I imagined it would: I’ve sorted out the locations and character movements into a correct timeline. I am now convinced that this is perhaps one of the more difficult tasks facing an author who tries to create a long, exciting, and believable tale.
This wasn’t all that important in the past novels. They encompass a longer period of time, months or years. There is plenty of gray area regarding when events take place, and when it does matter, the timing is fairly obvious. The third novel, however, takes place over the course of a week, and is basically the part where all of the characters run up against the consequences of their actions, interactions, and values. It moves very quickly, one event on the heels of another, and characters reacting to those events. For it to make any sense and keep momentum, certain things must occur in a certain order, and in addition, the places where the storylines touch as they all converge have to have the characters in the same locations.
It’s very easy to make a complete mess where some characters seem to have been standing about doing nothing important for hours or days, despite the fact that they had urgent motivations, simply because there is no sensible way for those they are to interact with to travel to meet them in the right amount of time. That’s the problem I had, and it required some analysis and some plot changes to get it to all fit into place. And it’s what I have fixed.
All of this is done in a very detailed outline form, with about half the chapters written to first draft status. Now, finally, I can get on with actually writing the remaining chapters, confident that none of my characters will need a jetpack (except, of course, the ones that actually fly)or a touch of narcolepsy to explain their presence in crucial scenes.