Month: June 2013

Turning Is Now Available

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Or will be shortly, as soon as Amazon finishes reviewing the file. That being said, you can order a print version from Createspace here. And for a limited time, I am offering five signed paperback copies of the book (I’ll have them shipped to me soon) for you to read, provided that (Big Caveat!) you promise to leave me a review. I’m totally serious about this. Reviews are the lifeblood of book sales. Without them, our books just sit there in digital anonymity. I’m not asking for five stars or unrealistic praise. I’m asking for an honest “This is what I thought of the book” type review (although, I suppose if you absolutely hate the book, we can just quietly give that copy away to someone who might appreciate it more, ya know?).

Just, somewhere toward the bottom, write something along the lines of, “I received a free copy of this book to review and was in no way otherwise financially compensated. All comments are my own.”

If you want the book digitally, I can make arrangements for that as well. Just let me know your kindle email address so I can send it to you.  Sorry, can’t sign the digital ones.

Happy Reading! 🙂

 

QUICK UPDATE: Amazon has now given me an ASIN, so you will be able to access the Kindle book here as soon as they finish publishing it.

Update on Turning and Other Works in Progress

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Well, the good news is that I’ve finally got the edits from my girls for Turning, which means I can at last initiate the rewrites and final edits before releasing this book. We had a pretty good discussion about it this evening, going over the things they did like, didn’t like, and any suggestions they had. There’s a few minor tweaks I’ll be implementing starting tonight, not the least of which is reformatting the book from a 6×9 to a 5.5×8.5 cover size. My goal is to have the edits done and the book available by the end of the month. Okay, actually, it was to have the book available at the beginning of the month, but schooling got in the way (technically, it was Algebra that got in the way). The good news is that I should still be able to take advantage of the coupon I received from Createspace via NaNoWriMo for a free printing of five books–that’ll go a long way toward helping us locate more BETA readers, I expect.

In the meantime, I’ve been plugging away at the other six. I’ve got four of the six current WIP’s above 20K words. The other two are bumping their heads on it. I may decide to narrow the field a bit and give more attention to the books that I’m more productive on, but I haven’t done so just yet. I really like the idea of finishing six books together, but it’s probably unrealistic to expect that I’ll get all six done in a year’s time. Besides, I know that readers of Jefferson’s Road are chomping at the bit for the next installment, and I do want to get it out to you this year. I also have to give priority to Music of the Spheres. Even though Elixir of Life is due out in November, I kinda want to have the next book ready to hand over to Rochelle when that happens. That leaves me the opportunity to pick amongs the four remaining books for the two “most likely to succeed” (ie: get finished). I have to choose among Descent, A Glass Half-Empty, The Blood-Eater Coven, and Nicholas. And waiting in the wings, I have a Middle East thriller called Rock of Ages that has around 16K words or so (I think). That’ll certainly give me fodder for 2014.

I’ll let you know once Turning is ready to go. Later!