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Read an eBook Week participation

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Over on Smashwords, this week is the sixth annual Read an eBook Week, the design of which is to promote interest in both reading and reading ebooks. I’m participating in it for Tales of the Supers, and for the sale, I’m offering the book at 50% off.

Now, bear in mind that this offer is only available for the book on Smashwords. It will not be available on Amazon or any of the other sites it may now be up on.

In order to get the discount, you will need to purchase the book on Smashwords and use the code REW50 at checkout. It’s on good through 11:59 PST on March 8th, though, so grab it while it’s available!

Also a few brief news points: Tales of the Supers is now up on Barnes and Noble’s website and on Books-A-Million’s website, as well as on Amazon’s regular webspace (not just CreateSpace–and don’t ask me why it shows May 2013 as the publication date, because I have no idea). It’s also now available on iTunes.

Finally, whoever made Legends of the Cryptids has created one of the most addictive games I’ve ever played. It’s possible I will hear that music in my sleep for days to come.

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

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I might be slightly out of my mind. I’ve entered Tales of the Supers into Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award. It’s still in the early days of the contest, so there’s nothing to say yet where it stands, but I wanted to share my insanity with anyone who might be reading this little blog.

The Kindle version of Tales of the Supers is up on Amazon now. It will likely be a few more days before the print version is available anywhere but CreateSpace, but hopefully that won’t be too much longer.

And in other news, I’m going to try to find somewhere to wait out a headache I’ve had all day. Excedrin Migraine is making a slight dent in it, but it’s not enough to make me willing to go deal with the world at large.

The battle is over

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Tales of the Supers - ebook

I almost can’t believe I’m finally ready to announce this. Tales of the Supers 1 is finished. It’s up on Smashwords for ebooks, and it’s on CreateSpace for print. In the next week, it should be available on Amazon itself for print and Kindle, and within a few more weeks, it should be available at other bookstores and for library orders. It may also be a few weeks before the electronic format shows up in other online bookstores, such as Barnes and Noble and Kobo and so on. I will, of course, update when these are available.

If you order from Smashwords, you have the option of several formats, including PDF, epub, mobi, online, and several others. This covers most formats used by digital readers. If there is a format you need that you don’t see available on Smashwords, let me know in a comment to this post, and I’ll see what I can do to get a copy available in that format for you.

You will note that I had to change the cover. CreateSpace was being quite a stick in the mud about the cover I had created… and I suck at math, so I wasn’t even going to try to figure out the complex goings on behind spine width and bleed and so on.

Yay, I’m so excited! It’s finally here and available.

Small site updates

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I’m still making site tweaks. I’ve left the comments off on the rest of the site, but comments are now available on the blog. This was something that I had been meaning to do ever since I switched the site over to WordPress. However, I was having some difficulties finding how to go about cutting off comments on pages but not on posts. For anyone else hunting for a solution to this same issue, the answer can be found on the second post here.

Otherwise, it’s more of the same. I have been scrounging up some time to write at least 750 words a day on the second Tales of the Supers book. It’s harder than it sounds, when I’m already doing three jobs, but I’m giving it my all. And if I’m writing when I’m at lunch or during lulls at one of the other jobs, so be it. I have a story, and I think it’s time to tell it, and I’m enjoying telling it. This is a winning combination, I think.

I do need to start gathering stock images so I can work on making a cover. I think that has to be done ahead of time with CreateSpace, or I can pay them to have it done. Again, this is just my understanding.

EDIT: CreateSpace has a free cover creator service or you can pay to have one made. You can also upload your own premade image. This is good. It’s good to have option. I feel like I have more than I did with LuLu with that other name or with the publisher I used under that other name.

And on a more personal note, with everything else that’s going on, I’m also in the midst of trying to lose about 40 to 50 pounds, mostly by just eating healthier, and I’ll be moving in a few months or sooner, depending on if I can get another “real” job before I start back to school in January. I swear, I’ve never been this busy before in my life. When it rains, it pours, right?

Post-April 2013 Camp NaNoWriMo

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Somehow… Somehow… I managed to finish Camp NaNoWriMo with over 58,000 words—and a completed novella. The first Tales of the Supers is done, and it’s currently at the pre-readers/editors for now.

Hopefully, they should be done with it before too long. At that point, I’ll go ahead with the copyright, sending it to Library of Congress, then it will be time to finally give CreateSpace a try. I’m not even going to try sending it companies this time around; it’s probably a bit too… something for any of them to be willing to pick it up. I got burned with the books I wrote (under a different name), and I think it will be a while before I consider trying another publisher, aside from self-publishing. I might give another go, but it will be a while yet.

But, please, be expecting actual content on this site before very much longer.

See you all then!