Category: Writer Stuff
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Progress on Progenitor 4, Chapter 10
First off, I finished my round of edits and re-reading on Chapters 1-9. They have been updated on both Ream and Vella, so anyone with access over there can read the revised versions now. I’m also pleased to report that I’ve got 1500 words of Chapter 10 written, which means it’s a little bit past…
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Nearly a year after my last Progenitor chapter was posted, I’m back
Divorce sucks, and getting co-parenting settled out took much longer than I anticipated. It also created major problems at work, and put me quite a bit behind schedule on some important projects. That put life into a spiral for quite a while. Given my audience, it’d be nice to have said that a dating and…
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The Fallback Plan: Awakening eBook releasing on 5/1/23!
I had a realization today, that there was nothing stopping me from releasing The Fallback Plan as a series of eBooks. My original plan had been to wait until I finished everything and then release a single eBook at the end. While I do still intend to do that, there’s no good reason why I…
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Free updates to two ebooks!
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve just finished the updates to two of my eBooks: These are both part of Volume 2 of my breeding anthology, and I’m just one story away from fully updating that anthology. In Evil Takes Wang, I still vividly remember and can see the scenes in my head from when…
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Vella experiment successful
So, thanks everyone – I’ve learned some things about Kindle Vella, and I’m going to share them now. First off, Amazon talks about how their bonus algorithm rewards different things. This is said in order to be mysterious, but apparently it is not that mysterious. It’s pretty simple that if your story made no money,…
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New distributor: Gumroad
So, in my quest to ensure that my international fans are able to read my work-in-progress stories, I must diversify my episodic publishing beyond the US-only Kindle Vella platform. I’m working on two new distributors, one of which I’ve set up a limited storefront on already, and the other of which I’m waiting on an…
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Genetic Lottery 2, Ep5
Episode 5 of “Winning the Genetic Lottery” is live. “Filling In My Publicist” is an episode where Jim finds a publicist to cover the PR aspect of his mayoral campaign. Winning the Genetic Lottery 2 posts a new episode every other Tuesday.
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The Fallback Plan, Ep10
Episode 10 of The Fallback Plan, “Noriko’s Birth” is live. Kara reaches full term and delivers Noriko Camp, a doctor she knew before the Fallback Plan started. Kara’s next moves in the ongoing chess game with the ship’s computer become clear to her. The Fallback Plan releases new episodes every Saturday and Tuesday at midnight…
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Pressed the big red button!
I’ve been publishing chapters via Vella now for a little while, and sat back to think about it this weekend. The outcome of that thinking, is that I need to put together a release calendar to keep track of what I’m writing, and when I need it by. So once I did that, it became…
