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Coupon of the Week, 3/18/2024

Once again it is time for Coupon of the Week!

This week’s coupon is for the audiobook of GHOST IN THE PACT as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy. You can get the audiobook of GHOST IN THE PACT for 50% off at my Payhip store with this coupon code:

MARCHEXILE

The coupon code is valid through April 5th, 2024, so if you find yourself needing an audiobook to leap into spring, we’ve got one ready for you!

-JM

weekly progress

Let’s see where we are at with current writing projects!

I am 67% of the way through the first editing pass on GHOST IN THE VEILS.

40,000 words into WIZARD-THIEF.

11,000 words into CLOAK OF TITANS.

-JM

GHOST IN THE VEILS cover image

I think I am about 29% through the first round of editing for GHOST IN THE VEILS, so let’s see the cover image below!

I am still on track to hopefully have the book out before Easter.

-JM

Question of the Week: the first computer

Our Question of the Week is inspired by the fact that I’ve spent a lot of the last few weeks setting up my new computer and getting it configured properly.

So the question: what is the first computer you ever used? No wrong answers, obviously.

For myself, it would be a Commodore VIC20. It had 20 kilobytes of RAM, and the Word file for the rough draft of GHOST IN THE VEILS is 355 kilobytes in size. So to load GHOST IN THE VEILS in Microsoft Word format, I would need about eighteen different Commodore VIC20 computers. That’s like one computer per chapter and a half.

-JM

The Pulp Writer Show, Episode 191: The Worst Writing Advice

In this week’s episode, we take a look at six of the worst pieces of writing advice on the Internet, and explain why you shouldn’t listen to them. You can listen to the episode with transcript at the official Pulp Writer Show site!

-JM

Coupon of the Week, 3/11/2024

Once again it is time for Coupon of the Week!

This week’s coupon is for the audiobook of GHOST IN THE THRONE as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy. You can get the audiobook of GHOST IN THE THRONE for 50% off at my Payhip store with this coupon code:

SPRINGTHRONE

The coupon code is valid through March 29th, 2024, so if you find yourself needing an audiobook to leap into spring, we’ve got one ready for you!

-JM

GHOST IN THE VEILS rough draft done!

I am pleased to report that the rough draft of GHOST IN THE VEILS is done at 88,000 words!

I’m not sure how many chapters there are because I realized that I actually titled two different chapters as Chapter 8, and I think I’ll have to split up two of the longer chapters into smaller pieces.

Next up is GHOST DEFENDER, a short story that my newsletter subscribers will get for free in ebook from when my newsletter for VEILS comes out. So this is an excellent time to subscribe to my newsletter! 

I think we will have a cover image by the end of the week. I do have to install an additional internal hard drive for my computer first because it turns out a stock photo library and Photoshop files take up, like, a lot of space.

-JM

progress update

It’s Friday! Let’s see how far I am on my various writing projects.

I am 85,000 words into GHOST IN THE VEILS, and if all goes well I hope to finish the rough draft next week. I think we’ll land between the 90,000 to 100,000 word range for the book.

I am also 37,000 words into WIZARD-THIEF, the sequel to HALF-ELVEN THIEF. I hope to have that out sometime in April if all goes well.

Finally, I am also about 9,000 words into CLOAK OF TITANS. I think that will probably be out towards the end of May, but we will see.

-JM

Question of the Week: Audiobook Preferences

Some other blogs/podcasts do a Question of the Week for readers and listeners, and I thought that might be interesting to do here.

So! The very first Question of the Week.

If you listen to audiobooks, what apps do you use? No wrong answers.

For myself, I use a combination of the monthly credit from Audible and discount audiobooks from the Chirp daily emails.

-JM

The Pulp Writer Show, Episode 190: Factual Accuracy In Fiction

In this week’s episode, we take a look at techniques for ensuring accuracy and verisimilitude in your novel. You can listen to the complete episode (with transcript) at the official Pulp Writer Show website.

-JM