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June 17, 2020
Should I be watching THE EXPANSE?
I suspect that I should be watching THE EXPANSE.
The days of the Backerkit Pre-order store are numbered.
I’m debating whether or not to shut it down completely when the paperback version of FROZEN DREAMS is in print, or wait until at least the audiobook is ready to go. There’s some deals in that store that will only get more attractive when the products come online, and I suspect that the blood has been extracted from the stone. But until then, grab some stuff!
Pre-order NowAnd fill out your survey, if you haven’t already.
June 16, 2020
06/16/2020 Report, FROZEN DREAMS.
Busy day!
A few orders today on Amazon. Marathon, not a sprint.Got the book listed on Smashwords, which means that FROZEN DREAMS is available on sites like Barnes & Noble and Kobo and whatnot. It’s definitely on the B&N site now.Had a reader review it on Goodreads. Also, I am now have an author page on Goodreads. If you use that platform, by all means, let me know so we can do that network thing.I also emailed someone who does a weekly book promotion thingy. Not saying who, because if it doesn’t happen it doesn’t happen.Finally, I worked on one of the short stories for the sampler. Copy-editing and the like.
As always: if you read the book and like it, review it. Everywhere. It’s good for increasing my reach. And review other people’s books too, dagnabbit. They’re practically begging you too. I hadn’t realized before now how vitally important it is to review.
All in all: things chug along.
06/16/2020 Snippet, MARIE AND THE CONTINENT.
This is going more slowly than I’d like. I’m apparently distracted right now. GO FIGURE.
Patreon!At any rate, the attacker was tall enough to perhaps be the unfortunate Mr. Lincoln, and he had been supposed to call upon Lady Florence that afternoon. Whether he had actually arrived was… a matter of some debate, according to Dr. Doyle. “For a family with a murdered daughter,” he said, “they are remarkably close-mouthed over what happened to her.”
“Magda?” I said, to get her attention. When she looked at me, I smiled and said, “Would you sort all of that out, please?”
Magda smiled. “Certainly, Marie. What is your desire?”
“A good deal less nonsense from the Countess, at the very least. Although that might take more than one meeting. But all of this is absurd.”
“Ah. I thought so, but you English can be rather…”
“Eccentric?”
“Does that mean ‘mad’?”
“Depends on how much a year the madman’s worth,” muttered Bell.
The ‘Get a grip, vengeful spirits’ GHOSTS OF WAR trailer.
(Via, kinda, ComingSoon) I mean, I can understand why you’re all pissed off about what happened to you.
But geez. Those guys were Nazis. These are Americans. You leave them alone, at some point they will go and kill more Nazis. What is your victory condition here, vengeful spirits? What is the resolution that you truly seek?
This is getting a digital release next month, and damned if I know if that’s because it was always going to be that way, or whether GHOSTS OF WAR is yet another casualty of the coronavirus. Probably the former, but it’s a great excuse, hey?
06/16/2020 Snippet, HOLDOUTS.
We continue on!
Patreon!“You all right, Jack?” Pam asked me as I started to slow down after my third chew. We were waiting in an empty office while somebody went over the examination room yet again for traps. Director Ong was teeter-tottering between fury at the attack, and terror at what it might mean for her future with the Bureau; I was pretty sure by now she wasn’t actually complicit, which still didn’t mean it wasn’t her fault.
I swallowed my redgum (every little bit helps) and shook my head. “Just burning out all the crap from last night,” I said. “I’ll be good to go.”
“You need a drink?” she asked. “They got me a list of safe donors. A couple even volunteered for direct contact.”
That made me grimace. I don’t mind fang-chasers, really. But… all right, I mind fang-chasers. Too many of ‘em got the look of somebody who’d climb right into a blood-pit and then put on the manacles themselves. God damn it, we fought wars to stop that. I don’t get the younger generation, sometimes.
FROZEN DREAMS is now live on Smashwords, up on Goodreads!
Time for the broken record: if you’ve read the book and liked it, honest reviews are the best thing in the world. They may take time to go up to certain sites, but the more honest reviews I get, the better the algorithms. Note the use of ‘honest:’ cutting corners is a no-no for a bunch of reasons, all of which are equally valid.
Oh, and if you’re on Goodreads already let me know and I’ll friend you. My account is here.
June 15, 2020
‘Don’t Give Up.’
Come, I will conceal nothing from you: this was very motivational, at times.
06/15/2020 Progress Report, FROZEN DREAMS.
The first day went… well, we had some sales. A few. It’s been a helpful corrective, in fact: up to this point I have been rolling critical successes on funding, left and right. Having it brought to my attention that I will not be selling several thousand copies between now and Friday should do wonders to manage my expectations*.
It helps that things are going really well, too. If all things work out, the book will be available in paperback by the end of the week. At least on Amazon. Barnes & Noble might take longer, because I’m also finishing up getting FROZEN DREAMS on Smashwords. Which will mean that I might be able to get the books out before the end of the month. Probably not, but July is a lot earlier than September. The advantages of success, and all that.
Moe Lane
PS: To help? Well, pass along the link, review the book once you read it, let me know about places I can interview, that sort of thing. It’s gonna be a slog, no two questions about it.
*Not that I’d object.
