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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Friday, October 19, 2012
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.
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.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
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.
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.
Monday, October 15, 2012
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.
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.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
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.
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