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November 6, 2016
The Quiet Before The Loudness
Things have been so quiet on this blog, haven’t they? I was hoping they would be, to give followers a break after that Fresh Fiction Daily thing.
I may have full time work for the season, but there are things happening soon that you should know. If you’ve been waiting for the sequel to The Gift-Knight’s Quest, I’ve set the date as May 1, 2017.
60 days prior to release/March 2017: The Crown Princess’ Voyage pre-orders become available via Kindle Select.
May 1, 2017: The Crown Princess’ Voyage officially released as a print-on-demand paperback via CreateSpace and its channels. Available as an ebook via Kindle Select for 90 days.
May 7-9, 2017: Paperback copies of both books available for sale at Ad Astra 2o17 convention (scheduled/unconfirmed)
May 13th, 2017: Paperback copies of both books available for sale at The Bookshelf event in Newmarket, including public reading by the author (scheduled/unconfirmed)
90 days later: Kobo edition prepared and released via Kobo Writing Life
And in the meantime most of the action is being set up for other blogs. I have been approaching review bloggers about The Crown Princess’ Voyage, and for most of them this means bundling The Gift-Knight’s Quest with it as well. Some of them have offered to review both as a result of my focus on the one, which is fine. When you are trying to promote the second in a series, and you know the first wasn’t the most well known even in the indie world, it’s common practice to offer a free digital copy of the previous book in the series. Some blogs want the entire series if they haven’t read it yet, in order to understand a fourth or fifth book for example, so I have it easy; The Gift-Knight Trilogy is, well, planned to be a trilogy. Any further works in the universe won’t require anyone to have read The Gift-Knight Trilogy.
The next book is in progress, but slowly at that. I was never quite sure how I would manage NaNoWriMo with all the work I have on the go, but a bit more plotting beforehand would have been nice. Thanks a lot, Past Dylan!
October 28, 2016
VIDEO: Unboxing my proof copies
These days I make the effort to personally caption every new video, because the auto-caption does its best but is way off the mark at times.
I may one day reach back to older videos and caption them, but they don’t necessarily get watched much, and that’s probably a good thing.
October 16, 2016
ARCs of The Crown Princess’ Voyage will become available
What have I been doing all this time since Fresh Fiction Daily ended?
Well, I’ve been setting up the second book of the Gift-Knight trilogy, The Crown Princess’ Voyage, in CreateSpace. I am over 50% of the way through the final (intended) edit of this first edition. I am setting up the cover, ISBN, etc.
But I’m going to withhold approval, and incidentally release, until very early May of 2017. Why? Because I want to be able to offer 6-month Advance Reader Copies to bloggers and reviewers who require that amount of time in advance.
I will privately contact many bloggers/reviewers who already accepted The Gift-Knight’s Quest for review, because they will at least have the first book in the series ahead of this one in their queue. They may have already read TGKQ and this new book picks up pretty much where the first left off.
This also means that the Wattpad early edition of TCPV has gone hidden, along with the preview edition of TGKQ, and the Tumblr edition and its table of contents are completely wiped. It was up there for early readers to enjoy, for nearly a month. If you didn’t have time, it probably wasn’t an urgent read for you, and you’re going to get a necessarily improved version by May 2017.
October 6, 2016
Indie Author Day – Saturday, October 8, 2016
This Saturday I will be selling signed copies of The Gift-Knight’s Quest at Indie Author Day, North York Central Library edition. I will also be available to sign copies you’ve already purchased and/or answer some questions. You can find me at Table 1 next to Benjamin Gabbay. But there is a lot more happening here than just me and my table of books. Info below provided courtesy of Paula Costa-Kuswanto, Youth Services Librarian, North York Central Library.
The library address is 5120 Yonge Street. North York Central Library is located on Yonge Street, south of Finch Ave and north of Sheppard. It can be found in the mall next to Mel Lastman Square. There is a food court in the mall if you would like to pick up lunch or a coffee. On Saturday the cost for the underground parking is a flat rate of $5 for the day. The parking lot can be accessed through either Beecroft Road or Park Home Ave. If you are taking the TTC, you would exit at North York Centre Station.
The book fair runs from 1 to 4. The panel discussion runs from 1 to 2. From 2 to 3 a digital panel will be streamed live on the big screen. From 3 to 4 there will be a self-publishing workshop.
