19 Sunday Feb 2017
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I’m probably not going to be posting with any great regularity for some time. All for good reasons, but I’m afraid I’m not quite going to promise a regular schedule again just yet. I am, however, ready to announce being at least vaguely back. 🙂
All this absence has been because I’ve been working on the most important story I can create — my own. And it’s all going absolutely wonderfully… but that fact is also keeping me busy!
18 Tuesday Oct 2016
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01 Monday Aug 2016
Posted in Behind the Scenes, Book Statistics
The month-long ebook sale has ended, and I sold 37 e-copies of Before the Sun Fades in it! I don’t think that’s bad going at all!
In addition, there’s just one major thing left to go before I can finally return to writing properly! And boy, am I looking forward to it. Right now, Reclamation (in the Path of the Gods series) and AIN are the top two projects in my mind, but that may change. The first few chapters of Reclamation already hit second draft status a while ago, and will probably now benefit from more eyes; any volunteers to read and comment on part of a book sometime in the next couple of months will be greatly appreciated! Meanwhile, the other end of it had to go on hold some time ago while I wrote a large chunk of Ascension — the two books are dependent on one another — and now needs both completing and, in the process, working out where to transition into the third book.
As for AIN, it’s rather more choppy: many of the key turning point scenes exist, and the beginning and the end are there, but it’s all rough first draft and many areas are lightly sketched in or altogether missing. So that will take a whole lot of building.
13 Wednesday Jul 2016
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Admin, Before the Sun Fades, Books, Fantasy, Publication, Sales
I was going to be good and not constantly post about how BtSF was doing in the sale (where it’s currently free), because that’s really annoying, but it’s now almost at the top of page 5 of the free-in-sale fantasy bestsellers and climbing!!! They default to 20 books per page, which means it stands at sales rank #83! I’ve hit double digits in my category!!!
Thank you! You wonderful crazy people who read random fantasy novels by someone on the internet, thank you all!
12 Tuesday Jul 2016
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18 Friday Mar 2016
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I’ve been meaning to catch up on my sales statistics for a while now, and since I’m not feeling so great, today seems like the ideal time to do all those minor chores that involve sitting in front of a computer. So, how are we doing?
Well, Before the Sun Fades has shifted 15 physical copies! Not counting the box of author copies I have, which I’ve mostly handed out to libraries and friends/relations. As for its e-sales, I’ve sold 11 e-copies, and handed out a few more. Hopefully, copies of these will be in circulation among a wider circle of people, some of whom will pop by sometime and ‘buy’ a copy to support my work, and some of whom can’t right now – which is a-okay with me.
All this means that I’ve sold 26 books, plus some extra that I’ve handed out in various places, since the 23rd of May last year. That’s only ten months ago, and two and a half books a month doesn’t feel bad at all for a starting out nobody author!
So I’m feeling pretty good about myself and about my writing life right now! And as a celebration, I’m handing out discount codes like candy again! Sadly, I can’t discount the physical book – Amazon controls the special offers there – but I can certainly discount the electronic edition!
To grab a copy of Before the Sun Fades in your favourite e-format for what should be about £1 (Smashwords insist on doing everything in dollars), head on over to its Smashwords page and enter the code UL78V on purchase. It’s valid up until BtSF reaches its first birthday, that is, the 23rd of May! And share the code with your friends – it’s good for an infinite number of uses until time runs out!
23 Tuesday Feb 2016
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Because the last Fused post was so recent, it’s now gone up on the Tuesday Serial for this Tuesday, and the next chapter will be posted next week. I don’t exactly have a backlog of chapters waiting to be posted, so humour me, and I’ll try to build one back up so that your fix of Ship-based adventure returns to regularity again!
In the meantime, it’s back to work for me, although actually I have a friend visiting, so outside of my day job, a lot of what I usually do is slightly suspended. The day job still requires my attention, but I just sorted that out for the next few hours, so it’s all good! Back to work therefore means…
29 Friday Jan 2016
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Slightly distracted by personal affairs. However, also, I have new tech, which is excellent and awesome!
Normal posting to resume tomorrow, probably.
20 Wednesday Jan 2016
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Long-awaited, or possibly long-dreaded, or maybe more accurately completely-forgotten, but here it is at last: my return (again, again) to the world of actually posting about writing. And possibly other things, but probably writing, on the basis that nobody needs as much incoherent rambling as you can get out of me on other topics, and I did promise when I started this blog that I’d at least try and stay focused.
So here we are! I have submitted my thesis, I have completed another NaNo (anyone want a discount on Scrivener? First come, first served!), I have defended my thesis, and I have only corrections to make before I become Dr. Metalwings! (For those readers less familiar with thesis-world, (a) Everything in PhD Comics is probably true bar some country-specific idiosyncrasies, and (b) There are always corrections.) I also have a job, which exists and is beginning to generate income, and, of course, I once again have time to write!
That’s right, my weekly serial is back! So stay tuned for some soon-to-be-appearing further adventures of the Fused… and in the meantime, join me in celebrating!
08 Wednesday Jul 2015
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Yesterday’s lack of a Fused update, and the scarcity of updates around here in general, brought to you by my thesis. Please bear with me, I’ll write and post as and when I have spare time!
