I worked all morning formatting Past Prologue and I can officially announce that it is DONE.
The free download should now be ready at Smashwords.
Amazon's $0.99 copy should be ready by the end of the day. Remember folks, if enough of you price match, Amazon will drop that price.
I will likely format for Kobo, Google Play/Books and Createspace tomorrow.
The rest of you of use outlets associated with the Smashwords family will have to wait another day or so.
A few notes about the episode itself:
I was surprised when I saw a 35,000 word document staring back at me. It didn't feel nearly that big as I was writing it. I know I went through that terrible period when I didn't know whether I would complete it or not, but once I started up again it felt like the story came right back to me.
In the humble opinion of the guy who wrote it, Episode 4 feels like my most competent work yet. It doesn't have a signature moment the way Deliverance had Serena's (spoiler space) daring escape or Rapture's (more spoiler space) liberation of Carver in it, but I think I portray my characters best in this book. They as well as the world they live in never have felt more real to me.
Anyway, I hope that you readers out there enjoy it. With no unforeseen delays I expect to have Episodes 5 and 6 up before Christmas. I wanted to have this entire project done by the first of the year but that is asking the near impossible.
For now, enjoy Past Prologue.
The Past is now Present.
Monday, December 1, 2014
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Mind over Matter
I am almost through editing Past Prologue.
The upload will start early tomorrow.
I will post it the information here when I'm done.
It's just a simple thing as mind over matter.
Since I don't have much mind nothing much else matters.
The upload will start early tomorrow.
I will post it the information here when I'm done.
It's just a simple thing as mind over matter.
Since I don't have much mind nothing much else matters.
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Never Felt Like This Before
I'm not going to keep u guys long tonight. I Just finished working the bill paying job and I'm off to do a chapter before bed.
Again, Past Prologue has a likely upload date of Monday. Look for it.
I don't know where the big uptick in page views has come from since Thanksgiving Day, but welcome to my blog. I appreciate each and EVERY one of you. As some of the others who hang around here know, I try to keep the discussion to current and future projects. I'm not truly into the social networking scene. For me at least, I think that should go on elsewhere.
In speaking of future projects...
I'm this close (put your finger and your thumb as close together without touching close) to finalize where I'm going after the Where are our Children Serial is done.
It's going to be a doozy if I say so myself.
More details as we draw nearer to the end of this serial.
It is safe to say that I haven't felt this good about my writing and publishing since I sat down and started 411 a month in a half ago.
Yea, it feels good to say it.
I never felt like this before.
Again, Past Prologue has a likely upload date of Monday. Look for it.
I don't know where the big uptick in page views has come from since Thanksgiving Day, but welcome to my blog. I appreciate each and EVERY one of you. As some of the others who hang around here know, I try to keep the discussion to current and future projects. I'm not truly into the social networking scene. For me at least, I think that should go on elsewhere.
In speaking of future projects...
I'm this close (put your finger and your thumb as close together without touching close) to finalize where I'm going after the Where are our Children Serial is done.
It's going to be a doozy if I say so myself.
More details as we draw nearer to the end of this serial.
It is safe to say that I haven't felt this good about my writing and publishing since I sat down and started 411 a month in a half ago.
Yea, it feels good to say it.
I never felt like this before.
Friday, November 28, 2014
busy busy busy
I'm working on the 8th of the 10 chapters of Past Prologue.
I'm going to get started soon before I collapse.
I have a REDICULOUS schedule ahead of me over the next two weeks outside of the house.
Somehow...someway...I've got to continue writing.
Busy, busy, busy...stay tuned.
I'm going to get started soon before I collapse.
I have a REDICULOUS schedule ahead of me over the next two weeks outside of the house.
Somehow...someway...I've got to continue writing.
Busy, busy, busy...stay tuned.
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Sometimes HE works in mysterious ways
Once again Happy Thanksgiving to all of you looking in from the US and the standard hello for everyone else in the world.
I'm not going to get religious on you this morning. I won't. I won't mainly because I am nowhere near where I need to be with HIM. But I will say this: I was feeling about as low as I could feel about writing and publishing over the past seven days or so. Those of you who tune into my blog regularly know about my struggles with overcoming what writers term as the Critical Voice. This voice tells you that what you are writing is crap as you put it down. It tells you that no one will read it once you publish it. It tells you that if they did they didn't like it. And it never fails to tell you that you are wasting your and everyone else's time.
I've been locked in a battle with it my entire adult life. I've let it steal years of productivity from me. And even after I made a small come back with the publishing of the first three episodes of Where are our Children-it jumped on me big time last week.
I managed to get a chapter done yesterday.
I think what I saw this morning though was far more important.
So far, Children only seemed to me to be getting downloads at Smashwords only. My two sports articles continue to do well at I tunes. In fact they get nearly double digit downloads over there everyday. People are right down the middle on whether they agree with me in my assessments on each subject but that is okay. My only point is to present my argument well. Those downloads tell me that I did that much right.
Children, on the other hand, has done nothing on I Tunes. maybe that will change. Ultimately, fiction is my first love. It is eventually what I am banking on for long term success. There are non fiction projects ahead but fiction will either make what I do here, or break what I do here. I don't have anything selling on Amazon, Google Play wasn't showing downloads and Kobo is in the single digits in downloads period since I started publishing there last month.
But like I said in an earlier passage, I think I saw something this morning that was very important to me.
I looked at my profile at Goodreads. That's nothing new. I look at it and all my other info across the net daily. But HE led me to look as an item I had never noticed before when I looked at the site from my phone.
Anyone who has been to the author's sections there will notice that if any of their work has been recommended that the data for that book is there next to all your other stuff. Well, all six of my writings are there. I always knew that. I always appreciated that fact. What I didn't see is HOW MANY times they've been recommended. The children series is getting nearly 2 recommends a day since their publication. Rapture has more recommendation than it does downloads on Smashwords. I wondered how that was possible.
I have to remember that Smashwords is a global distributor. My (and everyone else who publishes there) stuff is going globally. It is in libraries and at sites that I have never heard of. My trade paperback editions (especially of my first three works) is also selling SOMEWHERE.
Boy, did I need this. I really needed the assurance that someone...somewhere is reading my stuff. It means so much to me and I thank you all.
I know if I'm completely past my crisis but I feel a lot better.
So much better that I'm off to complete another chapter of Past Prologue when I'm done here.
Like I said at the beginning: I'm not going to get religious on you this morning. I won't. I won't mainly because I am nowhere near where I need to be with HIM. But I will say this: I was feeling about as low as I could feel about writing and publishing over the past seven days or so.
Sometimes He does work in mysterious ways.
I'm not going to get religious on you this morning. I won't. I won't mainly because I am nowhere near where I need to be with HIM. But I will say this: I was feeling about as low as I could feel about writing and publishing over the past seven days or so. Those of you who tune into my blog regularly know about my struggles with overcoming what writers term as the Critical Voice. This voice tells you that what you are writing is crap as you put it down. It tells you that no one will read it once you publish it. It tells you that if they did they didn't like it. And it never fails to tell you that you are wasting your and everyone else's time.
I've been locked in a battle with it my entire adult life. I've let it steal years of productivity from me. And even after I made a small come back with the publishing of the first three episodes of Where are our Children-it jumped on me big time last week.
I managed to get a chapter done yesterday.
I think what I saw this morning though was far more important.
So far, Children only seemed to me to be getting downloads at Smashwords only. My two sports articles continue to do well at I tunes. In fact they get nearly double digit downloads over there everyday. People are right down the middle on whether they agree with me in my assessments on each subject but that is okay. My only point is to present my argument well. Those downloads tell me that I did that much right.
Children, on the other hand, has done nothing on I Tunes. maybe that will change. Ultimately, fiction is my first love. It is eventually what I am banking on for long term success. There are non fiction projects ahead but fiction will either make what I do here, or break what I do here. I don't have anything selling on Amazon, Google Play wasn't showing downloads and Kobo is in the single digits in downloads period since I started publishing there last month.
But like I said in an earlier passage, I think I saw something this morning that was very important to me.
I looked at my profile at Goodreads. That's nothing new. I look at it and all my other info across the net daily. But HE led me to look as an item I had never noticed before when I looked at the site from my phone.
Anyone who has been to the author's sections there will notice that if any of their work has been recommended that the data for that book is there next to all your other stuff. Well, all six of my writings are there. I always knew that. I always appreciated that fact. What I didn't see is HOW MANY times they've been recommended. The children series is getting nearly 2 recommends a day since their publication. Rapture has more recommendation than it does downloads on Smashwords. I wondered how that was possible.
I have to remember that Smashwords is a global distributor. My (and everyone else who publishes there) stuff is going globally. It is in libraries and at sites that I have never heard of. My trade paperback editions (especially of my first three works) is also selling SOMEWHERE.
Boy, did I need this. I really needed the assurance that someone...somewhere is reading my stuff. It means so much to me and I thank you all.
I know if I'm completely past my crisis but I feel a lot better.
So much better that I'm off to complete another chapter of Past Prologue when I'm done here.
Like I said at the beginning: I'm not going to get religious on you this morning. I won't. I won't mainly because I am nowhere near where I need to be with HIM. But I will say this: I was feeling about as low as I could feel about writing and publishing over the past seven days or so.
Sometimes He does work in mysterious ways.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
A Crisis of Confidence and Character
Hey guys.
I missed a posting for the first time since I've been back. Some out there may be happy about that. (grin)
I told myself that I would not post to this blog again until I wrote something. Well, I did just that. I finished another chapter of Past Prologue today. I hadn't written in five days or so. I am truly going through a crisis of confidence and character.
My downloads are really down at Smashwords. I published to Google Books the other day and either are getting no response there are I am not understanding how to upload their stats reports. I really haven't been the same writer since Rapture debuted with NO sales during the 24 to 30 hours I had it up.
I'm going through what a lot of writers do at this point. We expect huge returns when we haven't put in a lot of investment at this point. I'm human, guys. Be patient. Stay with me.
I'm pressing forward. I'm trying to remember that I'm doing something very special. If I don't sell one book or nothing is downloaded that has my name on it, I am doing something very special.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I hope that each and EVERY one of you has a wonderful, safe and prosperous holiday. I'm going to try and do so very well.
And then I'm going to continue to battle this crisis of confidence and character.
And press on and write another chapter.
I missed a posting for the first time since I've been back. Some out there may be happy about that. (grin)
I told myself that I would not post to this blog again until I wrote something. Well, I did just that. I finished another chapter of Past Prologue today. I hadn't written in five days or so. I am truly going through a crisis of confidence and character.
My downloads are really down at Smashwords. I published to Google Books the other day and either are getting no response there are I am not understanding how to upload their stats reports. I really haven't been the same writer since Rapture debuted with NO sales during the 24 to 30 hours I had it up.
I'm going through what a lot of writers do at this point. We expect huge returns when we haven't put in a lot of investment at this point. I'm human, guys. Be patient. Stay with me.
I'm pressing forward. I'm trying to remember that I'm doing something very special. If I don't sell one book or nothing is downloaded that has my name on it, I am doing something very special.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I hope that each and EVERY one of you has a wonderful, safe and prosperous holiday. I'm going to try and do so very well.
And then I'm going to continue to battle this crisis of confidence and character.
And press on and write another chapter.
Monday, November 24, 2014
A Brave New World
Wow.
I was pleasantly surprised how well the uploading process to Goggle Books went. All 6 of my works are there for a free download. I'm interested in how well my stuff will do over there.
I'm also anxious to see how Children did at I Books after I moved it from category to another.
Once again it looks as if Life and the Job will stop any progress I wanted to make in getting restarted on Past Prologue. I absolutely have to sleep to make during the day to make it through my nights at work.
Maybe I'll try some editing of the chapters I do have complete.
A brave new world maybe lies ahead. I just wish I could get some things out of my way.
I was pleasantly surprised how well the uploading process to Goggle Books went. All 6 of my works are there for a free download. I'm interested in how well my stuff will do over there.
I'm also anxious to see how Children did at I Books after I moved it from category to another.
Once again it looks as if Life and the Job will stop any progress I wanted to make in getting restarted on Past Prologue. I absolutely have to sleep to make during the day to make it through my nights at work.
Maybe I'll try some editing of the chapters I do have complete.
A brave new world maybe lies ahead. I just wish I could get some things out of my way.
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