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January 28, 2020
The Pulp Writer Show, Episode 12: Caina & THE GHOSTS Questions & Answers!
In this week’s episode of the Pulp Writer Show, I answer reader questions about Caina Amalas and THE GHOSTS series of epic fantasy novels.
Thanks to Michael Philips, Justin Bischel, Juana Bargus, Edward Barry, Sue Manvell, William Duckett, Cindy A, Jack, Elizabeth Upp, Emery Dueck, and Christina O’Neill for their questions!
-JM
January 27, 2020
DRAGONTIARNA: WRAITHS book description
Editing is underway for DRAGONTIARNA: WRAITHS, so let’s take a look at the book description!
If all goes well, the book will be out in February.
Ridmark Arban is the Shield Knight of Andomhaim, and he has always gone into battle alongside the deadly Third of Nightmane Forest.
But now Third finds herself trapped in a strange new world of deadly magic.
Unless Third learns to master the dangers of this new world, they will destroy her.
Or the Heralds of Ruin will find her and kill her…
-JM
January 25, 2020
CLOAK OF ASHES preview!
I’m editing DRAGONTIARNA: WRAITHS right now, but I also just passed the 10,000 word mark of CLOAK OF ASHES.
A brief preview:
When the High Queen of the Elves recruited me to be her shadow agent, I expected she would give me difficult and dangerous assignments. Like, spying on her rivals, hunting down dangerous creatures, that kind of thing.
And there was some of that. Like the time when I had to find who murdered a dragon. Or that messy business with the wraithwolves and Owen Quell.
But when I became Tarlia’s shadow agent, I didn’t anticipate how often she wanted me to rob hotels.
Like, she wanted me to rob hotels a lot…
-JM
January 24, 2020
DRAGONTIARNA: WRAITHS editing underway!
Editing is underway for DRAGONTIARNA: WRAITHS!
If all goes well, the book should be out sometime in February.
Meanwhile, let’s have a look at the cover image, which was created by the excellent Clarissa Yeo.
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-JM
January 22, 2020
DRAGONTIARNA: WRAITHS rough draft done!
I am pleased to report that the rough draft of DRAGONTIARNA: WRAITHS is done at 121,000 words.
Next up is SHIELD KNIGHT: WAR MAGES, a short story about the Guardian Rilmael that I’ll give away for free to my newsletter subscribers when DRAGONTIARNA: WRAITHS comes out in February. So be sure to subscribe to my newsletter! 
January 21, 2020
The Pulp Writer Show, Episode 11: 2019’s Ebook Sales
In this week’s episode of The Pulp Writer Show, I look at which ebook platforms had the best sales in 2019, and compare them to 2018’s results.
The results might surprise you.
January 19, 2020
Don’t Pay For My Podcast!
A reader emailed to ask how much my podcast costs.
Nothing! It’s free and available in a variety of formats.
-If you have an Apple device (iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch) you can listen to it on Apple Podcasts.
-If you are a Spotify subscriber, you can listen to it on Spotify.
-If you have an Android device, you can listen to it in the Google Podcasts app.
-Finally, using any device you can listen to its official site on Libsyn.
-JM
January 17, 2020
THE GHOSTS question & answer
To celebrate the release of GHOST IN THE COUNCIL in ebook and paperback and GHOST IN THE COWL in audiobook this month, I want to do a podcast episode that is a Q&A session about the Caina series.
So leave your questions about THE GHOSTS here, and if we get enough of them, in a few weeks I’ll record a podcast to answer them!
-JM
January 15, 2020
ebook sales 2019
As I wrap up my record-keeping for 2019, I broke down which platforms sold the best for me in the last year:
Amazon: 56.6%
Google Play: 15.24%
Apple: 10.67%
Kobo: 8.46%
B&N: 5.36%
Audiobooks self-published: 1.81%
Audiobooks, traditionally published: 1.71%
It makes for an interesting contrast with 2018:
Amazon: 63.92%
Google Play: 14.58%
Kobo: 8.55%
Apple: 7.27%
Barnes & Noble: 5.1%
Audiobooks: 0.0043%
Basically, in terms of raw numbers, Apple Books and Audiobooks were both up sharply from 2019, but everything was the same or slightly down, with the exception of Amazon. Amazon was down quite a bit, but I think that was because I didn’t put anything new into Kindle Unlimited in 2019. I suspect the realities of the modern book marketplace demand that, which is the point of my secret project codenamed “Project Shard”.
I also have way more audiobooks now than I did in 2018, so it makes sense that category would be up.
I got to do a special Apple promotion for FROSTBORN: OMNIBUS ONE back in September, so that helped drive Apple sales, which was nice.
Thanks for reading (and listening!) everyone. In a few weeks or so I will be able to figure out which series of mine sold the best in 2019.
-JM
January 14, 2020
The Pulp Writer Show, Episode 10: Nine Million Words
It’s time for the official tenth episode of The Pulp Writer show! In this week’s podcast, I talk about how I wrote nine million words of novels in the last twenty years.
Additionally, there’s also an amusing anecdote about a floppy disk getting stuck in the drive. Definitely wasn’t amusing at the time, though.
