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November 28, 2016
Patchers of the Code – Update!
The ‘sexy computer voice’ edit of Patchers of the Code is finished! My NaNoWriMo 2016 is done, days early.
The ‘Spellcheck this you crazy speller’ edit – is also finished.
The next stages:
Physical Book Layout
Book Cover
Book Blurb
Order Proof Books
Beta Reader Edits
Final Edits
Lunch
eBook Set Up
Thing I am forgetting about?
Publish!
That may look like a lot of steps, but come on, one of them was lunch! That one will be easy!
We are looking at an early 2017 launch! Soon the Anders Quest Series will be finished! (I can’t believe it!)
November 25, 2016
A shining review of Assailant’s Greed!
I just found the most ‘wonderful’ review of Assailant’s Greed on a scuzzy spamming site that was attempting to get my information!
For those of you that don’t know – fake pirate sites will claim to have your book. They want people, usually the author, to try and download it by giving personal information. The moral is: Don’t do that! Don’t try and get books for free anywhere like that, they will take your info. Besides I give them away during promotions!
I decided, why not steal their info instead, to make up for what they are trying to do to me! Take that scuzzy pirate site!
Here is their wonderful description. Let’s go through it together!
Everybody will get much of knowledge by reading a book.
Already philosophical. I love it!
The book actually willcontain certain things you need.
Have you been looking at my Christmas list? I assure you, it does!
Of course, you will get something based on the Assailant’s Greed: The Triad’s Tale (Tales of Gentalia Book 4) By CB Archer of the book itself.
Something based on it? Is it a fan fiction? Please! You must share it with me!
Reading online book will be great experience for you.It is usually cheaper that you must buy the book in the book store.
You can’t fault them for this! Assailant’s Greed is an experience and I dare you to find this book in stores to compare the price!
Contain of the book is really same with the printed book.
Who is printing this e-book only book? Please, send me a copy!
However, you have to be connected with internet and you can read the online book.
I am relatively sure that isn’t how reading e-books works!
One of online books that willbe nice for you is book entitled Assailant’s Greed: The Triad’s Tale (Tales of Gentalia Book 4) By CB Archer.
It will be more than nice for you. It will dance for you, and paint for you, and additional sex joke for things in the book!
It is great.
Can’t fault that logic!
The online book is very nice with meaningful content.
You might even say that it is great!
Writer of the Assailant’s Greed: The Triad’s Tale(Tales of Gentalia Book 4) By CB Archer is very smart in delivering message through the book.
I am also great and great smart! Sweet!
There are some stories that are showed in the book.
Stories in a book? You did read read my Christmas list!
Reader can get many real examples that can be great knowledge.
Yeah, no idea! Still, remember that part when it said I was great?
It will bewonderful.
It will bewonderful. It will be greatly bewonderful! #Bewonderful!
I give this review a solid seven! Solid. Thanks scuzzy pirate site for making today bewonderful!
November 16, 2016
Nov 18th – An Exciting Day!
November 18th is just around the corner! Exciting, right?!
Well, okay. That isn’t normally a day people get excited for so I should explain. Two exciting things are happening!
Gamefreak and Nintendo are releasing Pokémon Sun and Moon. It is sure to be a great day for Pokémon Lovers! … Speaking of Pokémon lovers… to celebrate I am giving away Karta Monstra free on that day! Grab it here!
What else is happening? All Men’s Space will also be free, for the very first time! This is to celebrate… that I didn’t look up the release date for Pokémon Sun and Moon before I set up all the promo stuff for All Men’s Space! Grab it here!
Regardless, it will be an interesting day to see which one… comes… out on… top!
November 15, 2016
Patchers of the Code and the Editing of Mystery!
As you can see the Cover for Patchers of the Code is finished! Look at how cute it is! Well, okay. It isn’t actually started, and this is just my outline, but still. It’s purple!
60,000+ words have been edited so far in the last book of The Anders’ Quest series. This is the ‘Sexy Computer Voice’ edit, which is the second to last round of edits. After this it is the Physical Book Copies edit featuring beta readers, and then it can be released to the public.
I am terribly excited to get this out there! Shooting for a January 2017 release!
November 14, 2016
NaNoWriMo 2016
Do you know what I can never remember how to spell? NaNoWriMo!
Honestly, I just never remember what the letters are supposed to be in it. It should be NNWM or something else. I have never participated in a NNWM (I’m calling it that from now on) before, and after warming up a few times during Camp NNWM this year I have realized that I probably shouldn’t ever participate! Something tends to happen to me if I do, and the story gets delayed.
50,000 words in a month is kind of a big deal, and I am totally in awe of anyone that can do that when under pressure. I’ve actually done that, but not when under pressure!
I’m in awe of anyone that even tries actually! Hey Listen! Don’t get discouraged if you don’t finish 100% in one month, that is hard. Just be proud, even if you only got 10% done, that is something! Keep going after November ends, every month technically is NNWM!
Saying all of that, however, I am participating this year. *Gulp* This will be a first. But I am not officially putting my name up, nor am I writing! According to the rules you can also edit works you have previously written, so I am taking this month to do the final edit on Book 3 of the Anders Quest Series: Patchers of the Code!
November is almost half over and I am almost half done editing, so it has been working out thus far! I hope to have a cover finished (and a book layout done) this month as well, you can expect my next blog post will be about that, unless something like ‘Kittens Like Bowling’ takes my fancy, because let’s face it, that would be pretty amazing!
(Also, why didn’t they pick a month with 31 days? 1 extra day means a lot with 50k words!)
October 31, 2016
Apocalypse Wow 2: Apocalypse Wower – A Review
The second book in the Apocalypse Wow series has an absolutely lovely cover! Truly stunning.
Disclaimer: I received this book for free after I designed the cover for free. The decision to review it was mine!
This was my favourite book thus far in the series, and it was for more than just the cover (although that was a part of it)! Ben really can smack you with irreverence, but not in the bad way. The random helps this story helps to keep you questioning what is real and what isn’t and that helps to keep you turning the pages. It isn’t serious. It doesn’t have to be. It can be about the end of the world, and it can be about juice boxes, skeletal Mounties, and mac n’ cheese at the same time. It’s okay.
He got a bonus star for it being so different than other things.
Oh, and thank you for having more strong female characters in this one! Also, great cover man!
5 Skeletal Mounties out of 5!
October 27, 2016
Another Interview with Justin MacCormack
Today I am going to interview fellow author Justin MacCormack. Careful, there are naughty things in here not for the underage!!!
CB’s Interview Text Box: Hello Justin, and welcome to my crazy breakfast nook of the internet!
Justin’s Interview Text Box: Hello CB.
CB’s Interview Text Box: I will start right out with question number 1 as I believe that is how interviews start.
CB’s Interview Text Box: 1. I hear you are breaking new ground in your writing career and have decided to burst into a new genre of fiction. Can you tell us a little about that?
Justin’s Interview Text Box: Sure thing. With my new short novella “The Castle of Count Shagula”, I’m moving into the realm of terribly erotic smut. Now, the thing is that it’s not a massive change from my previous book “Hush!”, which was a collection of dark horror tales. With my new book and other forthcoming titles in the Monsterotica series, we are very strongly rooting the story in classic horror fiction. Some of the strongest influences to this new line of stories are the MGM classic horror movie monsters, given a new twist as hot male-on-male sexcapades. Oh dear. That sounds wrong. But oh so enjoyable.
CB’s Interview Text Box: I do like the sexcapades. But it is so hard to get tickets this time of year, and the arena needs to be so cold for the skaters. This will be a big help!
CB’s Interview Text Box: 2. You said there were other forthcoming stories? That means that these are going to be a series of books. So, Shagula will not the last classic horror monster we will see. Can you give us any hints about what other popular movie monsters are in line to receive the Monsterotica treatment?
Justin’s Interview Text Box: No.
Justin’s Interview Text Box: Oh, alright then.
You can expect to see all the classics in this line-up. I’m currently polishing up a certain shambling behemoth of a creature stitched together by the demented count Wankenstein (you just can’t get puns like that anywhere else). And expect to hear the howl of the legendary queerwolf somewhere out on the moors as well.
CB’s Interview Text Box: Personally, I am waiting for the one when the monsters all get together and form an Alliance of Evil Intentions!
CB’s Interview Text Box: 3. Okay, time for an important question. If you could have the power of any super hero, what would it be? Wait, sorry, I mean, If you could have any super power, what would it be? (Don’t want to exclude the Alliance of Evil Intentions, that would make this a silly question!)
Justin’s Interview Text Box: Oh I’m all for the classics. So I’d go for the power of Superman. None of your fancy silly modern-day superheroes for me, I’ll just stick with the basic flight. And super strength. And speed. And laser death ray vision. The classics never get old. Zap.
CB’s Interview Text Box: What?! Superman is the most overpowered superhero ever made, he can hear an alarm clock from over 30 light years away and get there in two panels! He is… I mean, interesting choice.
Justin’s Interview Text Box: He’s ludicrous, yeah. I wonder who would win in a fight between him and deus ex machina?
CB’s Interview Text Box: Superman, because his story arc isn’t like other super heroes but instead… well, that’s a whole different interview. We should probably get back to this one in fact.
CB’s Interview Text Box: 4. Can you tell us a little bit of what we can expect within The secretive walls of the great Castle Shagula?
Justin’s Interview Text Box: Horror! Terror beyond the minds of mortal man! Darkness and wickedness! A bout of fear to last the ages! Also, there’s sex. Lots of sex. This is a gay erotica novel after all. You’ll get to meet a cast of very colourful characters. Our lead, Jonathan Woodock, is a young and naive Englishmen, sent to the castle on perfectly ordinary business. He is caught up in a web of seduction, and before he knows it he has set himself the task of rescuing the village from the Count’s sinister lust for young handsome men. But will Jonathan escape from the castle’s inhabitants? Will he survive Renfield, the masochistic sex-slave of Count Shagula? Probably will. It’s a series, after all.
CB’s Interview Text Box: Wait, I knew all of this. I read this already! This question was for you readers!
CB’s Interview Text Box: 5. What, excluding the awesomeness that is Monsterotica of course, do you have in your writing library?
Justin’s Interview Text Box: If you’d like to hear about non-LGBT erotica, I have two short stories available in collected anthologies. “Day of the Dead” and “Dark City” are both available later this month. They collect short dark tales from authors all around the south coast of England, and I’m honoured to be included among those numbers. I’ve had a chance to see the pieces contained and there’s a truly wonderful selection, so for all your fellow readers who have an interest in the Hampshire area of England, this may be of particular interest.
CB’s Interview Text Box: All good things to know!
CB’s Interview Text Box: 6. Recently I was reading a list of good interview questions to prepare for this interview. This one was on the list of suggested questions and it made me laugh so I needed to include it. What was the hardest part of writing this book?
Justin’s Interview Text Box: Ooh, this book? “The Castle of Count Shagula” was a joy to write, and hopefully a joy for the readers as well. The hardest part though comes in the climax of the story. Naturally, I want there to be closure – our hero should come out on top. But when your main character’s such a bottom… well, you get the idea!
CB’s Interview Text Box: I might have some experience with that exact problem, yes.
Justin’s Interview Text Box: I bet
October 26, 2016
All Men’s Space is Publishing!
I have pressed the big button on All Men’s Space. It is with Amazon, waiting to be published!
October 21, 2016
A Shot at the Big Time: A Maxima City Talent Novel – A Review
All of those exciting things and more await you within this book! Christina blends together a great narrative, believable characters, and her trademark wit into this story and it never falters. The bizarre characters go great together, and they are over the top and zany in all of the right ways. Only ‘talents’ could be this over the top and be believable, which was a great pleasure to read.
The whole thing was so wonderfully bizarre and mixed the absurd with the realistic troubles that would happen to super heroes and villains. It felt like the old timers in the background scenes were from The Tick, and this was the legacy they left. This crazy, fun, wacky legacy!
I started to read this and couldn’t put it down, like literally. The digital pages were made of glue or something. I had to finish it right away, so I am a little sad it is over, but then again I know what happens now so I regret nothing.
Also, pockets. What up with that?
This book was written by Christina Mcmullen who you can find on Goodreads here: Clicky!
I will try to get a link up for it ASAP but it is on Amazon!
October 19, 2016
The First Act – A Review
I decided something, why not put Book Reviews that I do on this site? So here is the latest book I reviewed!
The First Act, by Vanessa Mulberry. Which is available on Amazon here: Book Clicky Linky!
This was a touching read that wasn’t like other books in the genre. There was a lot of tenderness to the main characters in this book, and it reminded me of the starting book of some really fantastic series I have read with m/m elements. I don’t like to brag, but I am a bit of a master of foreshadowing, it is like my mutant power, and it really felt like this was the start of a new series. It didn’t say so in the book, but personally I think there will be more of Richard and William to come! It really felt like this to me, so I will be watching for… The Second Act, which is my guess at the name of book two which features more of the new relationship, and some more spy times!
I thought the dynamics were good, even with a bit of a triangle going, it wasn’t ham fisted and what would probably happen to real people. Also, Sam was my favourite. Yes, he wasn’t in it that much, but I want more Sam please.
And speaking of to come, thank you for not fading to black! Let’s see more of that please!
