The publicity work for A Good and Useful Hurt is gearing up, and I couldn’t be much more excited! I will be updating this more frequently as we get closer to the release date, and look forward to sharing all of the radness.
Yup, that about covers it. I’ll have more soon, though I promise.
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but I kind of miss writing. The quick blast of edits on “A Good and Useful Hurt,” followed by the whirlwind rush of pretty much running through the last half of “Blood Cake Bones” should have left me drained. Now, just a couple of weeks removed from that marathon, and I miss it already. Normally its a few months before I even want to write a short story, I already feel like I could start work on long fiction. I’m not going to, at least not seriously, until video game season is over. Yes, that’s terrible, what can I say?
Early vibes my talented crew of first readers came back very positive for “Blood Caked Bones,” and the already begun edits based on their demands are going swimmingly. I’ve got my fingers crossed on this one.
For the last three months I have been participating in a monthly writing challenge. The rules are listed in the link, but in a nutshell, a challenge phrase is listed, and the participants must write a word associated with that phrase no shorter than 400 words, and no longer than 600. It’s pretty fun, and there’s always some good stories on there.
The long writing project I’ve mentioned a few times on here is finished. Well, not like finished, finished, but I did write an entire first draft, then read and edited it.
It is the longest manuscript that I’ve ever written, and stands now at just over 90,000 words. So it’s really only long by my standards. The working title is, “Blood Caked Bones” and it is quite different than just about anything I’ve ever written.
Hopefully it will see publication at some point in the future.
Yup, the awesomeness is starting. I am so pumped right now.
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Useful-Hurt-ebook/dp/B005TKD6N4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318019941&sr=8-1
P.S. For those throngs of you checking this thing, haha, I haven’t been updating because I’ve been super-duper busy writing. The marathon is almost done though, in what is my longest written project of any type to date.
Is in a little over a week. Anybody else going to be in St. Louis?
The cover art for “A Good and Useful Hurt” has been finished. Unsurprisingly, Amazon, my editor Terry, and the person who designed the cover all did a wonderful job, and I’m very pleased with the outcome. I’d love to show you it, but that will have to wait a little longer.
On a whole other topic entirely, I’m hard at work on two more pieces of long fiction, ideally both will be complete by the middle of winter. More likely, one will be done, but it would be nice to pick between two to submit, and have one in the bank for later. Fun stuff.
1. Nickel Plated is on sale for .99 cents on Kindle this week. Obviously that five buck savings means you should buy a Kindle and Nickel Plated. Seriously, Kindles are great.
2. My next book is going to be published by Amazon next year. It is called, “A Good and Useful Hurt”. More details to come soon.
Really, really badly. Possible road trip soon could be Indiana Beach, Holiday World, and then possibly King’s Island, Cedar Point, or both.
It’s only been a few months, but I really want to get out and go. The part I’m struggling with, is whether or not it would make more sense to wait until August. Of course, if I wait then I have to wait, and like I said, I want to go coasting.
Next blog post will have the conclusion of the super awesome news cliffhanger…
