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Site updates

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It’s very late at night, so please pardon any oddities about this post. I’m probably a little bit out of it. I’ve been up working on editing projects for a wee bit of money and making site changes.

I’ve found another two stores where the physical book is listed, and I have added them to the Tales of the Supers page: Schuler Books and IndieBound. For some reason, I can find the e-book version on SmashWords and Apple, but it’s not showing up on Barnes and Noble or Kobo. For the meanwhile, you can still download those versions via SmashWords.

So that’s the bulk of this post. Hopefully, I’ll have more to add at a not too distant date.

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.

Updates on “Tales of the Supers”

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I promise I have not yet abandoned this site! I have been working on several projects, not all of which are currently listed here… mainly because I don’t actually have titles for the series these stories would fall into. They’re getting a lot of interest from at least one of my pre-readers, though, and that’s encouraging to me.

You may also notice that the site layout has changed. I’ve been trying to find a WordPress theme that is (1) free and (2) appropriate for an author and (3) appropriate for the sort of things this author writes. For now, I like this one, but I have a few others I’m fond of and may eventually  play with.

But I have promised an update on Tales of the Supers. Somewhere back in October, I mentioned that I had been working on edits. The external hard drive that had my most recent copy of the edits crashed and burned, taking with it all the changes I had made to the document. Naturally, this was a bit depressive, and so instead I start focusing on writing Endless Loop.

While going through several of my backup discs yesterday, though, I found a copy of the edits. It wasn’t the most recent copy, but it was better than starting from scratch. In point of reference, there are five chapters and an epilogue to Tales of the Supers. The version I lost had edits done all the way to Chapter Four; the version I located had edits through the end of Chapter Two. So I lost half my work… but that’s better than losing all of it.

That in mind, I’ve been editing like a fiend these last few nights, and I’m hoping to have it ready to have one more check done by the end of the weekend. I would like to have it available on CreateSpace by my birthday at the end of February, if not sooner.

This will, however, push the release date for Color of Life: Endless Loop Book 1 back a bit, but hopefully it won’t be by too much.

Finally, please continue to bear with me. As I mentioned in the middle of October, I am unemployed. I’m still unemployed, now in February. In only a few weeks, my unemployment will run out. I have over 240 applications out, but I’ve had less than 10 interviews. I will put the PayPal link back up, because I’m beyond having any pride left.

Major-ish site updates

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Okay, so apparently I’ve been slacking on updating this site. I plead the fact I’ve been working on the editing for Tales of the Supers 1 and writing on Endless Loop: Color of Life. I’m within maybe 10,000 words of being done on Color of Life, and if my computers will cooperate, I’ll be done with the editing of TotS1 before much longer as well. 

The sad fact is that I’m currently unemployed, which would think would mean I would have more time for writing and editing. Sadly, that is not the case. We’re currently living off my roommate’s $400 a week job, which doesn’t stretch too far, so I’m madly applying to jobs everywhere I can. In fact, I counted them up and I’ve put in 130 applications in one month. Three-fourths of those are for full-time positions; I’ve only started applying for part-time jobs in the last two weeks.

Not knowing if you’ll be able to make your rent or pay your bills has a way of causing some stress, which in turn has a way of depleting creativity. So, sadly, until I know I can pay my bills, I’m not progressing on all of this as quickly as I would like.

Hopefully, though, that will change.

Either way, though… I am beyond pride.



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?

Things to do

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See? What did I tell you? More posts.

The book is still with my second editor, but I have at least finished the edits from the first editor. Apparently, my Microsoft Word got stuck on a British English dictionary at some point, because she caught all kinds of things where I was spelling things incorrectly for an American audience. This is why it is a good idea to have editors, especially someone willing to do line edits, before you self-publish.

There are still so many things I need to do before I can get this one out in the world. I still need to do author photos (before you guys just end up with a picture of one of my cats), and once all the edits are done, I need to have it copyrighted with the Library of Congress. Those are the big two, really. The latter will take a few weeks to get to me once it’s done, if I remember correctly from the last time I sent something in (again, under that other name). It’s been a bit, though, so I’m not 100% on the amount of time it takes. I just know I’m not paying the nearly $80 for expedited. That’s just too rich for my blood.

In the meantime, I’m working on the second book in the Tales of the Supers series… in between the day job, the contract editing job, and the blogging contract job. It’s a full day, let me tell you. But there will be more Tales of the Supers, and you can count on that.

A quick update in the middle of May

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It’s the middle of May. I’ve gotten the corrections back from one of my editors. However, it is still with the other one, and I don’t have an ETA from the other one.

With that, I’m setting a very tentative release date of mid- to late-July for the first Tales of the Supers novel. Again, that’s very tentative, because the editors have had it since 04 May, and I’ve gotten it back from one. Maybe I should say early August instead? That might be the safer option.

And in the meantime, anyone who is reading this can count on more frequent updates. I can always stand to babble a bit more at people.

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!