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The Empress - Prepublication Opportunity

The Empress prepublication offer



It is somewhat disappointing that no one wanted to take up the opportunity to get a prepublication pdf of The Empress.



Maybe no one has time to read 300,000 word novels these days. The book will publish in May/June but I won't expect a great volume of sales.

free e-book offer - time running out

The chance to get an e-book copy (pre publication) of The Empress will close on the 5th April.

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The Empress Exclusive

📚 Attention fans of Robert Reid's trilogy! 📚

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The Empress Completed

Well, at last it is done - The Empress is complete and I hope will publish in the next few weeks. In the interim we will probably make a small number of e-book/PDF copies available pre publication.

Keep an eye on my Facebook page where the opportunity will be live soon.

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The Empress V3

The story of the Empress and her two sons is now at the second edit stage. At nearly 300,000 words it maybe is a bit too long but it seemed as though all the words were necessary for the characters to tell their stories.

Still not sure whether to go to full publication or not - do people read 700 page books?

Goodreads Stats I Wonder

I wonder - can anyone explain?

I have 14,000 books on people's to read shelves
I have 1464 followers
I have 6000 book ratings

and

my e-book and paperback sales over the last few months total 32 items

I would really like to understand

The Emperor

The New Year

After a lot of writing and rewriting I hope I have found a suitable ending for The Empress. I have managed to avoid the big battle finale and still found a satisfactory conclusion - I hope. A bit more to write before it goes for editing.

Wishing you all a peaceful 2024

BBC Sounds

Listen to me talking about White Light Red Fire 0n BBC Sounds with Adam Crowther

1 hour into the programme on

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The Ending of the Story

The right ending for The Empress continues to elude me. I have written and then scrapped several different versions. I could just write about one last final battle to draw it to a close but although that could work it doesn’t feel right, for me or my characters. It has made me wonder – is writing a fictional history like real life – it is easier to just go to the final battle than it is to go to the final peace?

A never ending story?

Hi Folks,

These days I sort of look on my writing as my job. Many people would find it a rather lonely existence writing each day in a small home office. I enjoy it and having spent 25 years working as an independent contractor the home office is a natural home. The difference between being an author and being a consultant is I am absolutely my own boss. In the consultancy role you are pretty much always working for someone, consultancy did of course pay much better. The only stress I have had in my writing career was finishing “The Thief”, the third volume of “The Emperor the Son and the Thief”. I was conscious of my own disappointment when I had read part 1&2 of a series of books and the third takes so long to appear you have forgotten what went before. I was determined not to be guilty of that sin and so with “The Emperor” published in October 2020, “The Son” in June 2021, I was determined and “The Thief” was published in February 2022. Phew. Maybe lack of this pressure is why “The Empress” is referred to in my house as the never ending story.

Bob