New Short Story

My short story, "Origins," is now available on kindle. Here's the cover:

And the description:

A dark twist on the classic superhero tale.

How far would a superhuman go to protect the people and planet he has sworn to defend?

What can mere humans do living in a world dominated by heroes and villains?

What price does duty extract from an honest soldier?

***"Rated R" for the last ten or so pages.

Word Count

This being my first year fully dedicated to writing and self-publishing I, as you may imagine, have learned a few things. Truth is it would be hard not to learn more than a few things while taking on a new project/career/endeavor.

One of those things (besides how to locate the "reverse P thingy" in Mac Word - it took me hours to realize it was at the top of the screen, yes, hours), was how to measure a manuscript/book/written work. In digital publishing the font sizes and spacing are changeable on the ereaders so page length becomes a  useless metric. Word count, it seems, is the basic measurement of works now. Having learned this I went on a little search to see how my books compared to others. Each book in the BHOH trilogy is just shy of 200,000 words. Perhaps the most recent and most well-known book to come out in the past few years that has a similar length is the last book in the Harry Potter series. Yes, Deathly Hallows is roughly 200,000 words long.

So, a little under 600,000 over the course of fifteen months later I am not surprised that I have taken a liking to short stories.

Here's the screen shot for mt current amazon listing.

It's a good morning!

Woke up this morning to find out I had reached number #1 in the Kindle free, scifi, adventure category and #71 in the overall Kindle free category.

Thank you all who have downloaded Nova Sol.

I have decided to extend the free offer for the next two days. If you like what you've read so far tell  your friends so they can get the book free, too.

I feel a little like Ron Popeil right now. "But, wait, there's more!"

My short story, Origins, will be up in the next 10 - 14 days so keep your eye out for that.

That's all for now.

I am currently polishing up my first short story. "Origins" is a bit of a dark twist on the classic superhero story. Not sure I want to say anything more about it at this point except that writing it was a hell of a lot of fun. Having been a superhero addict when I was growing up it was a blast to try my hand at crafting a story in a genre that has so many elements to play around with.

Here's the cover. Did this up myself using the Paper app on ipad. My goal right now is to have a number (7, 10, more?) short stories done by X-Mas. I'll put up "Origins" in the Kindle store in the next couple of weeks (need to have some beta readers give it the once over) and a couple of others but then save most for the collection.

NOVA SOL is free on kindle all weekend long.

Start the series for free!

Have a great weekend.

Looking for Beta Readers and Reviewers

Things are going great. Sales are picking up for the entire series now that all three books are out.
I am starting my next project - a collection of short stories - and am looking for beta readers and reviewers. I will send copies of my work in progress to the beta readers so I can get some feedback. Always good to have feedback. For reviewers, I will send you copies (via amazon gifting or some other format) of which ever book you are interested in reviewing. You are under no obligation to give the work a good review. Again, I'm simply looking for feedback. The number of beta readers and reviewers will be limited. Five beta readers and ten reviewers.

Contact me at mcveyc@gmail.com with subject line "BHOH" if you are interested.