Only Sleep When You Are Dead

Another busy day.


I'm mostly dealing with the Job and my schedule there. I will try to fit the next chapter of Zero Hour in at some point today but sleep and outside business had to be taken care of first.


Good news on most if not all fronts on Past Prologue: It made it through the meatgrinder at Smashwords and is on the way to all of the subsidiaries of that distributor so look for it over the next few hours and day where you have found all the others. The trade paper back edition is ready as well and as much as I like the cover edition for the first three, I especially like this one. My plan is to have Past Prologue, Zero Hour and Betrayal use this similar template and then use a third template for the final three volumes of the series. Look for them.


In speaking of Past Prologue, I am off as soon as I leave his blog to post if over at Google Books. After a slow start, downloads have really picked up of my works over there. So if you like that  outlet for your downloading, I have a prescience on that site as well.


Well, let me go try to get this stuff done before I am off for the bill payer once again.


Maybe, I'll get some sleep this week.


Yet, then again, maybe I'll only sleep when I'm dead. (smile)       

Escalation

I am REALLY pressed for time today so I won't keep you guys.


I was able to get the first chapter of Zero Hour done today. I'm pretty happy with it though I missed one pretty critical passage that I'll need to insert a little later.


Let's just say that this chapter causes a major escalation in hostilities.

Christmas Time is Here

I have been VERY busy over the past 24 hours. In the time that I've returned to writing and publishing, I'm learning that these upload days are like this.


I never get tired of saying this and I'm hopeful that you guys never get tired of hearing it: Thank you all for your downloads during this time. Yesterday was the busiest day that I've seen generated on the Smashwords website since I started publishing over there. I truly hope that some of you return to there and other downloading spots to purchase my writings when I move on to that stage after this serial is completed. But again thank you for the downloads and the love you've shown my writing.


I published to Kobo and my trade paperback edition should be ready at Amazon outlets over the next 12 to 24 hours. 


Oh yea, I did make a sale on Amazon the other day of Fumblerooski. Again thank you to whoever made that purchase.


I truly want to get back to writing tomorrow but that will be tough. I have work, sleep, and business outside of the house tomorrow. It's going to be tough. But I want to start on my goal of two more published episodes before Christmas.


Ah, Christmas time is here and hopefully so is more of my writing.

Sometimes the Past is now Present

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.     

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. 

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.  

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.