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January 31, 2021
Flying Pigs Paperback is in the Works & Warped is No More
Hey there everyone. I wanted to post another update. It’s not all that exciting this week. Been busy this week with a surprise wave of job opportunities and a power outage. But this week was not completely wasted.
Earlier this week I created new book cover for Flying Pigs & Witches. I wanted it to look a little cleaner and ultimately went with brown tone instead of a red. Then I did a lot of formatting and trial and error to create a document and cover perfect for the paperback edition. KDP was a bit wonky when I did it. They published the paperback when I ordered my proof read copy which bothers me a little bit. Though I’m sure its fine, I really prefer to have the proof copy in my hands before a company does that. So I’m not going to be advertising it or sharing any links until I look through the physical copy myself.
Also one other thing is Warped. As go further and further into revising this book, it is dawning on me this book should have never been published in the first place. I wrote it when I was fifteen, thought it was great! I believed that it was just absolutely perfect and self-published it and some other stuff the moment I turned eighteen. I realize now I was really dumb to do that. My mindset was entirely different and quite childish, and the story is making less sense as I go on. My original plan was to clean it up through a revision, but I know now, this would not be a clean-up. This would be a full on rewrite, and I don’t have the time or determination to do something like that for a story I wrote when I was teenager. So it’s going away. It’s going away forever, because it never should have been published in the first place. Good God, I really wish there someone invited to a writing community or something as a teenager so I wouldn’t have been so naïve.
Beyond that, there is another audio chunk for anyone who may care. This week its Alice: Stone’s Story Part 6. You can check it out at https://youtu.be/V43ElcbMqww
Also if you support there are three ways to do so.
1) Buy purchasing the ebook on Amazon @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0776MR6CC
2) If you are Kindle Unlimited member, you can flip through the pages. I get a little bit of money for every page read. And every little bit helps.
3) Or by making a small donation on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921
Also given the nature of life right now, these blogs may become more sporadic. If the job market is picking up like it appears to in the last week, I am going to have to make that my priority. So my work these projects may slow down. I really need job. I make no money from my books. I really wish I sold enough to make a living, but I don’t.
Earlier this week I created new book cover for Flying Pigs & Witches. I wanted it to look a little cleaner and ultimately went with brown tone instead of a red. Then I did a lot of formatting and trial and error to create a document and cover perfect for the paperback edition. KDP was a bit wonky when I did it. They published the paperback when I ordered my proof read copy which bothers me a little bit. Though I’m sure its fine, I really prefer to have the proof copy in my hands before a company does that. So I’m not going to be advertising it or sharing any links until I look through the physical copy myself.
Also one other thing is Warped. As go further and further into revising this book, it is dawning on me this book should have never been published in the first place. I wrote it when I was fifteen, thought it was great! I believed that it was just absolutely perfect and self-published it and some other stuff the moment I turned eighteen. I realize now I was really dumb to do that. My mindset was entirely different and quite childish, and the story is making less sense as I go on. My original plan was to clean it up through a revision, but I know now, this would not be a clean-up. This would be a full on rewrite, and I don’t have the time or determination to do something like that for a story I wrote when I was teenager. So it’s going away. It’s going away forever, because it never should have been published in the first place. Good God, I really wish there someone invited to a writing community or something as a teenager so I wouldn’t have been so naïve.
Beyond that, there is another audio chunk for anyone who may care. This week its Alice: Stone’s Story Part 6. You can check it out at https://youtu.be/V43ElcbMqww
Also if you support there are three ways to do so.
1) Buy purchasing the ebook on Amazon @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0776MR6CC
2) If you are Kindle Unlimited member, you can flip through the pages. I get a little bit of money for every page read. And every little bit helps.
3) Or by making a small donation on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921
Also given the nature of life right now, these blogs may become more sporadic. If the job market is picking up like it appears to in the last week, I am going to have to make that my priority. So my work these projects may slow down. I really need job. I make no money from my books. I really wish I sold enough to make a living, but I don’t.
January 24, 2021
Somewhere Beyond the Sea Expansion Released & Other Fun News
Hey everyone! I hope you are doing well. There’s actually some news this week, and I wanted to share it with all of you. So let’s get started.
First of all there is a new and improved version of Somewhere Beyond the Sea out now. And when I say new and improved, I mean it’s well beyond a simple revision. This a full on expansion. Originally it was a fantasy short story about twenty pages long with an ambiguous ending which seemed fitting when I first wrote so many years ago. In fact it was actually one of my first short stories. But as I have been revising more of my old works for Kindle releases, I realized there was more potential. So I revisited the tale writing an expansion that continues the tale to a more definite ending. This addition in fact brought the tale from twenty pages to eighty pages. So it’s quite of an expansion. This story is being re released under the same title for the same price of a dollar. And if you already own the e copy (which are the only versions ever released up until this point) in the Flying Pigs & Witches anthology or the single short, it will be updated automatically on Kindle. I will post the information the story below.
Davey has been trapped on a rock of an island his entire life building a glass castle with his father for the king. He feels as though he is prisoner with no contact with the world beyond the island. Then one day during a storm, an odd yet captivating girl washes up on shore. She says she's from somewhere beyond the sea, but Davey's new friend is full of more mysteries than he ever expected.
This story is $0.99 for purchase and FREE on Kindle unlimited. Check it out @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C7X0D90
Beyond that, I have been diving into the world of paperbacks. I dabbled in that world a long time ago when I became old enough to self-publish and didn’t know what the heck I was doing. But now all this time later, I am ready to do things properly. And I have been working hard on getting the two short story anthologies Flying Pigs & Witches and Meteors & Monsters into paperback. I want to make them available for two reasons. If someone want to buy a physical version the option will be there. The second reason, is I want to set up some giveaways and I need physical books to do that. And I think anthologies are the best to do that with as they have been the most revised work so far. Hopefully in the next couple weeks, those paperbacks will be available soon.
Other than that I am continuing to revise Warped. I took a break to edit the Somewhere Beyond the Sea expansion, but now as far as revisions go, that is the main priority. I also do have enough shorts revised for another anthology. I’ll pull that together sometime in the future. Also I have decided to post a short story called Once a Time in Boston on the writing community Scribophile.com. It’s a dark fantasy about the apocalypse. I meant to work on this story last year, but 2020 took a bit of toll on me. I could not bring myself to work on anything dark or horror related for a while. But I’m willing to start editing it now. It’s a rough draft and I like to get some feedback before I really get started on any editing. So if you’re a Scribophile member you can go to my profile and read the rough draft at https://www.scribophile.com/authors/s...
Also the audio story project is still going. It does seem kinda of pointless to continue doing this. There are no views or listens according to the Youtube stats. In fact, I have an idea of what I should do with these things instead. I will tackle that later on. For the time being, I’ll keep posting. If for some reason, the audio project does pickup, then that is great. I may continue it if that happens. But right now it’s just seems to be a byproduct of my editing that no one cares about. Which is fine. A lot of them are rough, low quality, and boring. I get it. It was an experiment to begin with. It’s was a “let’s see what happens” sort of test, and almost two years later, I know the answer. This week’s audio chunk is the next part in Alice: Stone’s Story. You can find the audio chunk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pm_n...
Also if you support there are three ways to do so.
1) Buy purchasing the ebook on Amazon @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0776MR6CC
2) If you are Kindle Unlimited member, you can flip through the pages. I get a little bit of money for every page read. And every little bit helps.
3)Or by making a small donation on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921
And that is all I have for this week. I hope you enjoy what is here and hope you have a great week.
First of all there is a new and improved version of Somewhere Beyond the Sea out now. And when I say new and improved, I mean it’s well beyond a simple revision. This a full on expansion. Originally it was a fantasy short story about twenty pages long with an ambiguous ending which seemed fitting when I first wrote so many years ago. In fact it was actually one of my first short stories. But as I have been revising more of my old works for Kindle releases, I realized there was more potential. So I revisited the tale writing an expansion that continues the tale to a more definite ending. This addition in fact brought the tale from twenty pages to eighty pages. So it’s quite of an expansion. This story is being re released under the same title for the same price of a dollar. And if you already own the e copy (which are the only versions ever released up until this point) in the Flying Pigs & Witches anthology or the single short, it will be updated automatically on Kindle. I will post the information the story below.
Davey has been trapped on a rock of an island his entire life building a glass castle with his father for the king. He feels as though he is prisoner with no contact with the world beyond the island. Then one day during a storm, an odd yet captivating girl washes up on shore. She says she's from somewhere beyond the sea, but Davey's new friend is full of more mysteries than he ever expected.
This story is $0.99 for purchase and FREE on Kindle unlimited. Check it out @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C7X0D90
Beyond that, I have been diving into the world of paperbacks. I dabbled in that world a long time ago when I became old enough to self-publish and didn’t know what the heck I was doing. But now all this time later, I am ready to do things properly. And I have been working hard on getting the two short story anthologies Flying Pigs & Witches and Meteors & Monsters into paperback. I want to make them available for two reasons. If someone want to buy a physical version the option will be there. The second reason, is I want to set up some giveaways and I need physical books to do that. And I think anthologies are the best to do that with as they have been the most revised work so far. Hopefully in the next couple weeks, those paperbacks will be available soon.
Other than that I am continuing to revise Warped. I took a break to edit the Somewhere Beyond the Sea expansion, but now as far as revisions go, that is the main priority. I also do have enough shorts revised for another anthology. I’ll pull that together sometime in the future. Also I have decided to post a short story called Once a Time in Boston on the writing community Scribophile.com. It’s a dark fantasy about the apocalypse. I meant to work on this story last year, but 2020 took a bit of toll on me. I could not bring myself to work on anything dark or horror related for a while. But I’m willing to start editing it now. It’s a rough draft and I like to get some feedback before I really get started on any editing. So if you’re a Scribophile member you can go to my profile and read the rough draft at https://www.scribophile.com/authors/s...
Also the audio story project is still going. It does seem kinda of pointless to continue doing this. There are no views or listens according to the Youtube stats. In fact, I have an idea of what I should do with these things instead. I will tackle that later on. For the time being, I’ll keep posting. If for some reason, the audio project does pickup, then that is great. I may continue it if that happens. But right now it’s just seems to be a byproduct of my editing that no one cares about. Which is fine. A lot of them are rough, low quality, and boring. I get it. It was an experiment to begin with. It’s was a “let’s see what happens” sort of test, and almost two years later, I know the answer. This week’s audio chunk is the next part in Alice: Stone’s Story. You can find the audio chunk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pm_n...
Also if you support there are three ways to do so.
1) Buy purchasing the ebook on Amazon @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0776MR6CC
2) If you are Kindle Unlimited member, you can flip through the pages. I get a little bit of money for every page read. And every little bit helps.
3)Or by making a small donation on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921
And that is all I have for this week. I hope you enjoy what is here and hope you have a great week.
January 10, 2021
June Bug Vs The Dragonlies is Now on Kindle Unlimited
Hi everyone. I hope you are doing well. I know it has been quite a week, at least for me and fellow Americans. The events at the Capitol was shocking yet oddly predictable, and I can yell and scream about the state of this country and the traitors who stormed into the capitol all day. But I’m not going to waste the blog doing that. I am here to share that another short story has been revised and transferred over to Kindle Unlimited. The short is June Bug Vs the Dragonflies. I’ll post the info below.
The city is being attacked. Giant dragonflies have seemingly come out of nowhere to swarm City Island. The people are evacuated and the military are in the streets fighting back. Yet none of this is enough to detour a pair of journalists, David Diptera and June Bug, who dash into the story of the lifetime. The two will soon find that they are in more trouble than they might have first thought.
This short is $.99 to purchase and FREE on Kindle Unlimited. You can find it at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VUUFFE
Beyond that, I have nothing else to announce. I have no audio story stuff, big plans, or idea dates for when other projects will be done. To do all these revisions, edits, and just writing in general, I really need a clear head to do this things and without saying I was distracted.
I hope you all have a good week. I will be updating you all when I have more news to share.
The city is being attacked. Giant dragonflies have seemingly come out of nowhere to swarm City Island. The people are evacuated and the military are in the streets fighting back. Yet none of this is enough to detour a pair of journalists, David Diptera and June Bug, who dash into the story of the lifetime. The two will soon find that they are in more trouble than they might have first thought.
This short is $.99 to purchase and FREE on Kindle Unlimited. You can find it at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VUUFFE
Beyond that, I have nothing else to announce. I have no audio story stuff, big plans, or idea dates for when other projects will be done. To do all these revisions, edits, and just writing in general, I really need a clear head to do this things and without saying I was distracted.
I hope you all have a good week. I will be updating you all when I have more news to share.
January 2, 2021
A Look Back at All That was Done in 2020 & Some Free Book Promotions
Hello everyone! It’s a new year and thank God that 2020 is over! I don’t know about all of you but it was pretty awful for me. The first part of the year there was a company merger at my work, and the change in management led a stressful work environment that nearly broke me. Then came a lay off and many months of unemployment and quarantine. So it has been a trying year. But one thing that this year has given me, is time to work on my books.
Over the course of 2020 nearly all the short stories were revised and moved to Amazon Unlimited which was quite a lot of work and a couple new shorts were released. Also as I examined the library of what I self-published, I realized there were also some sacrifices to be made. The Daily Chronical and Mint shorts were removed from the market. This is because Mint and Daily Chronicle were two planned series that remain unfinished. They were starts to something that will probably remain unfinished. Also they were something I wrote when I was a younger, and I think they may need some rewritten elements regardless.
As I am concluding the revisions and Kindle Exclusivity deals with Amazon for the short, I have begun to assess what to do with my longer projects. (Though I feel like some of them may transform into short stories as I edit.) I am a few chapters into revising Warped. And there are a couple I decided to pull from the market. One was Jade Dragon and Christmas Times. Jade Dragon was pulled because I think it needs more extensive reworking and Christmas Times is just a little too silly. A single copy was never sold for either one, so this shouldn’t be that big of an issue that they were removed. Unfortunately this is what happens when a teenager discovers self-publishing when she believes her work is perfect. Years later there’s a lot of cleaning up to do. But I think I’m doing a pretty good job mopping up the mess and squaring everything away.
And with that said, I did want to share something fun for the New Year. The Alice series are going to be free for a few days to start off with 2021. Each story focuses on a different Alice in a dark Wonderland. It will FREE from January 4th to January 8th.
Alice: Winter’s Story follows a gunslinger Alice traveling the checkboard desert. This can be found @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KRF9KWQ
Alice: Stone’s Story follows a former card soldier Alice on the run in Diamond City. This can be found @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0776MR6CC
Alice: Khoza’s Story follows a scientist Alice who steals a Hatter artifact to rip a hole between worlds to get back home. This can be found @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QM5SG5M
With all that said, I hope you enjoy the free shorts if they sound like your thing. I hope you all have a happy New Year! The rotten 2020 is now in the past, so we can now look forward to a better year!
Over the course of 2020 nearly all the short stories were revised and moved to Amazon Unlimited which was quite a lot of work and a couple new shorts were released. Also as I examined the library of what I self-published, I realized there were also some sacrifices to be made. The Daily Chronical and Mint shorts were removed from the market. This is because Mint and Daily Chronicle were two planned series that remain unfinished. They were starts to something that will probably remain unfinished. Also they were something I wrote when I was a younger, and I think they may need some rewritten elements regardless.
As I am concluding the revisions and Kindle Exclusivity deals with Amazon for the short, I have begun to assess what to do with my longer projects. (Though I feel like some of them may transform into short stories as I edit.) I am a few chapters into revising Warped. And there are a couple I decided to pull from the market. One was Jade Dragon and Christmas Times. Jade Dragon was pulled because I think it needs more extensive reworking and Christmas Times is just a little too silly. A single copy was never sold for either one, so this shouldn’t be that big of an issue that they were removed. Unfortunately this is what happens when a teenager discovers self-publishing when she believes her work is perfect. Years later there’s a lot of cleaning up to do. But I think I’m doing a pretty good job mopping up the mess and squaring everything away.
And with that said, I did want to share something fun for the New Year. The Alice series are going to be free for a few days to start off with 2021. Each story focuses on a different Alice in a dark Wonderland. It will FREE from January 4th to January 8th.
Alice: Winter’s Story follows a gunslinger Alice traveling the checkboard desert. This can be found @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KRF9KWQ
Alice: Stone’s Story follows a former card soldier Alice on the run in Diamond City. This can be found @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0776MR6CC
Alice: Khoza’s Story follows a scientist Alice who steals a Hatter artifact to rip a hole between worlds to get back home. This can be found @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QM5SG5M
With all that said, I hope you enjoy the free shorts if they sound like your thing. I hope you all have a happy New Year! The rotten 2020 is now in the past, so we can now look forward to a better year!
December 20, 2020
The Final 2020 Blog!
Hey everyone! I hope you are all doing well and are enjoying the holidays. This is the last blog of the year. And this will be the final blog on the Project-Stories website, at least for a while. I hope things do turn around, and I can afford for it to go back online in the future. All blog posts after this, will be on my Goodreads blog only for the near future @ https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Beyond the change in where to find the updates, there is an update this week. I finally published Alice: Khoza's Story. I will post the synopsis down below.
Before stumbling into Wonderland, Alice Khoza was a brilliant scientist. Now she's an outcast trying to find a way back home and to her loving husband. But after spending so long tinkering and inventing in this new world of non sense, she thinks she has found a way home. It won't be easy though. Alice will have to steal a trident from a notorious evil clan of Hatters and use it to channel magic in the far north to rip a hole in between the worlds of Wonderland and Earth. The probability of making it back home is low, but Alice is going to give it her best go.
It is only $.99 for purchase or FREE on Kindle Unlimited @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QM5SG5M
From here on out, I still plan to get the June Bug vs the Dragonflies and the Somewhere Beyond the Sea expansion revised. But unlike my initial plan I don't think that will be done by the end of the year. I want to. I feel should try to get these things all on Kindle Unlimited so I could have more income options being unemployed and all.
But it's been a long year and I'm tired. Before being laid off, my job was slowly killing me with long hours and I was never home. After being laid off, I have been job hunting, taking GIS online classes, or working on all of this. As I was stuck at home I went all in on these revisions and got nearly all my short stories on Kindle Unlimited in the process. Though I think working on these things kept me from going insane from pandemic cabin fever and I really need to organize this mess, I do not really enjoy editing and revisions nearly as much as I do writing. And its the holidays. Though there's a voice in the back of my head saying I could set up some holiday sales, I really don't want to think about marketing, KDP, or editing. I just wanna take these next couple weeks off to curl up on the couch with cocoa, watch a bunch of Christmas movies, and celebrate Christmas the best I can in these weird times.
Once the beginning of the year rolls around, I'll be right back at it. After June Bug and Beyond the Sea, I will only have a couple more short stories and then its onto the book revisions. I really need to get this all stuff cleaned up. Sometimes I wish I could time travel and tell my younger stuff, it was a bad idea to self publish the second I turned eighteen, but I know that I wouldn't listen.
With that said, in these strange times I hope you can make the most of this season and are doing so safely. And if things seem too bleak or you're alone this Christmas please try to find hope. Things will get better. I know they will. But now we have to make sacrifices to save those we love, and those who were lost would want us all to fight through this. I know sometimes its hard to get up in the morning these days, but we have to keep going. I firmly believe there are still a lot of things to be thankful for to keep the holidays a little bright. Happy holidays everyone.
I will be blogging again in the new year from Goodreads.
Beyond the change in where to find the updates, there is an update this week. I finally published Alice: Khoza's Story. I will post the synopsis down below.
Before stumbling into Wonderland, Alice Khoza was a brilliant scientist. Now she's an outcast trying to find a way back home and to her loving husband. But after spending so long tinkering and inventing in this new world of non sense, she thinks she has found a way home. It won't be easy though. Alice will have to steal a trident from a notorious evil clan of Hatters and use it to channel magic in the far north to rip a hole in between the worlds of Wonderland and Earth. The probability of making it back home is low, but Alice is going to give it her best go.
It is only $.99 for purchase or FREE on Kindle Unlimited @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QM5SG5M
From here on out, I still plan to get the June Bug vs the Dragonflies and the Somewhere Beyond the Sea expansion revised. But unlike my initial plan I don't think that will be done by the end of the year. I want to. I feel should try to get these things all on Kindle Unlimited so I could have more income options being unemployed and all.
But it's been a long year and I'm tired. Before being laid off, my job was slowly killing me with long hours and I was never home. After being laid off, I have been job hunting, taking GIS online classes, or working on all of this. As I was stuck at home I went all in on these revisions and got nearly all my short stories on Kindle Unlimited in the process. Though I think working on these things kept me from going insane from pandemic cabin fever and I really need to organize this mess, I do not really enjoy editing and revisions nearly as much as I do writing. And its the holidays. Though there's a voice in the back of my head saying I could set up some holiday sales, I really don't want to think about marketing, KDP, or editing. I just wanna take these next couple weeks off to curl up on the couch with cocoa, watch a bunch of Christmas movies, and celebrate Christmas the best I can in these weird times.
Once the beginning of the year rolls around, I'll be right back at it. After June Bug and Beyond the Sea, I will only have a couple more short stories and then its onto the book revisions. I really need to get this all stuff cleaned up. Sometimes I wish I could time travel and tell my younger stuff, it was a bad idea to self publish the second I turned eighteen, but I know that I wouldn't listen.
With that said, in these strange times I hope you can make the most of this season and are doing so safely. And if things seem too bleak or you're alone this Christmas please try to find hope. Things will get better. I know they will. But now we have to make sacrifices to save those we love, and those who were lost would want us all to fight through this. I know sometimes its hard to get up in the morning these days, but we have to keep going. I firmly believe there are still a lot of things to be thankful for to keep the holidays a little bright. Happy holidays everyone.
I will be blogging again in the new year from Goodreads.
December 6, 2020
What's Coming Up and a Couple Short Story Casualties
Hey there. Its been a couple weeks from the last update. There's nothing new that's released this week. I just wanted to let everyone know what's in the works and some other news.
First of all, the last two weeks, a lot revising has been happening in the last couple weeks. I have been working on three stories at once. Alice: Khoza's Story, June Bug vs The Dragonflies, and the expansion on Somewhere Beyond the Sea are being revised at the moment. Once done with June Bug and Alice, I will have enough stories for a third short story collection which I'm hoping to call Nightmares & Dragonflies. They also will be released as a individual short stories as well. And as said in the previous post Somewhere Beyond the Sea expansion will just be part of a re release and as a free update of owners of Flying Pigs & Witches and the solo short story.
Once done with this, I hope to plan some giveaways of paperback copies of the short story collections. I have to calculate how much that will cost and hopefully book stores will survive til then. In this crazy world, I'm taking things day by day hoping for the best, but am completely prepared for things to turn for the even worse if it does.
And then there's a little bit of bad news, or I should say mediocre news because I don't know how many care. The Daily Chronicle e short series is no more. I unpublished the first couple stories in the series and removed it from the market. My stats sales say only couple people read them and that was back in 2010 ish. So I don't think anyone is going to miss it.
Why was it unpublished? Well its because, its an unfinished product. The Daily Chronicle was a very X Files like series of short tales, about a journalist who runs into spooky stuff and it had this TV show approach with an over arching story tying them all together. But the issue is, I began writing them as teenager. There are about twenty tales, and I had a plan for it to go to thirty with a definite conclusion. But then I had to get a job, then went to college, life in general changed and as I got so busy that this project got left behind for years. Then after college when I worked to get my writing mojo back I was focused on newer work and found my tastes and writing style has changed. So when I sat down and revisited this project a couple months ago (which is decade later), I realized my spark for this project is gone and I don't remember what the final third of the story was supposed to play out because its been so long. So it I decided to remove it from the market.
After college, my rule of thumb has been to only publish series that can stand alone within a series anthology style or as an connected series with a definite ending. The Midnight Special, Alice, and The Last Witch all work. But The Daily Chronicle doesn't. And it won't return until I have managed to finish it; that is, if I can finish it.
Beyond that I want to share more audio stories. Which I haven't done in a couple weeks. Despite Thanksgiving being so small this year, it somehow kept me too busy to render the audio stories lately. This week it ill be on the next chunk of Alice: Stone's Tale. Check it out at https://youtu.be/h-5cNQjHOg0
And if you decide to check this out and you do like it, there are a few ways to support:
1) By making a small donation thru Patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921
2) By purchasing the ebook version @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0776MR6CC
3) Or if you are a Unlimited Member, download the title and flip through the pages. There is pay for every page read according to Amazon's algorithm and every little bit helps.
4) And also, Alice: Stone's Story is in the Meteors & Monsters collection, so you can support by just checking that out as well.
With that said, that is all I have. Its going to be a while to get all this stuff revised. So news might be slow for a while. I hope all of you are doing well and have a great holiday season!
First of all, the last two weeks, a lot revising has been happening in the last couple weeks. I have been working on three stories at once. Alice: Khoza's Story, June Bug vs The Dragonflies, and the expansion on Somewhere Beyond the Sea are being revised at the moment. Once done with June Bug and Alice, I will have enough stories for a third short story collection which I'm hoping to call Nightmares & Dragonflies. They also will be released as a individual short stories as well. And as said in the previous post Somewhere Beyond the Sea expansion will just be part of a re release and as a free update of owners of Flying Pigs & Witches and the solo short story.
Once done with this, I hope to plan some giveaways of paperback copies of the short story collections. I have to calculate how much that will cost and hopefully book stores will survive til then. In this crazy world, I'm taking things day by day hoping for the best, but am completely prepared for things to turn for the even worse if it does.
And then there's a little bit of bad news, or I should say mediocre news because I don't know how many care. The Daily Chronicle e short series is no more. I unpublished the first couple stories in the series and removed it from the market. My stats sales say only couple people read them and that was back in 2010 ish. So I don't think anyone is going to miss it.
Why was it unpublished? Well its because, its an unfinished product. The Daily Chronicle was a very X Files like series of short tales, about a journalist who runs into spooky stuff and it had this TV show approach with an over arching story tying them all together. But the issue is, I began writing them as teenager. There are about twenty tales, and I had a plan for it to go to thirty with a definite conclusion. But then I had to get a job, then went to college, life in general changed and as I got so busy that this project got left behind for years. Then after college when I worked to get my writing mojo back I was focused on newer work and found my tastes and writing style has changed. So when I sat down and revisited this project a couple months ago (which is decade later), I realized my spark for this project is gone and I don't remember what the final third of the story was supposed to play out because its been so long. So it I decided to remove it from the market.
After college, my rule of thumb has been to only publish series that can stand alone within a series anthology style or as an connected series with a definite ending. The Midnight Special, Alice, and The Last Witch all work. But The Daily Chronicle doesn't. And it won't return until I have managed to finish it; that is, if I can finish it.
Beyond that I want to share more audio stories. Which I haven't done in a couple weeks. Despite Thanksgiving being so small this year, it somehow kept me too busy to render the audio stories lately. This week it ill be on the next chunk of Alice: Stone's Tale. Check it out at https://youtu.be/h-5cNQjHOg0
And if you decide to check this out and you do like it, there are a few ways to support:
1) By making a small donation thru Patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921
2) By purchasing the ebook version @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0776MR6CC
3) Or if you are a Unlimited Member, download the title and flip through the pages. There is pay for every page read according to Amazon's algorithm and every little bit helps.
4) And also, Alice: Stone's Story is in the Meteors & Monsters collection, so you can support by just checking that out as well.
With that said, that is all I have. Its going to be a while to get all this stuff revised. So news might be slow for a while. I hope all of you are doing well and have a great holiday season!
November 22, 2020
The Dark West is Now on Kindle Unlimited
Hello everyone! I wanted to share some more updates with you about what's in progress. First of all I completed the revision of an short story The Dark West. It has been given a new cover and is part of Kindle Unlimited. So if you have a Kindle Unlimited membership, you can read it for free. I'll post the synopsis down below.
For Abby and Caleb, it started as a day of book hunting. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, but when Caleb finds a battered paper back book called 'The Dark West,' things becomes rather odd. Without warning the two of them are sucked into the book. After the incident Caleb is nowhere in sight, and Abby must rely on her bookworm skills to find him in this world of fiction.
Free on Kindle Unlimited.
$.99 for Purchase.
This ebook is available @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VV73FI
Beyond that, I have been working hard on the final draft of Alice: Khoza's Story. After so much work on the previous drafts, the reception from reviewers are much more positive this time around. So the story is a big step closer to publication. Also I have been editing the expansion of Somewhere Beyond The Sea. Again, once I finish it, it will be a re release of the original story at the same price. And if someone already owns the E-story or the anthology that includes it, the owner will automatically get a free upgrade. And those two things are my main focus right now. But also Warped is still being revised off and on as well during all of this. Four chapters so far have been revised.
As far as audio stories go, I didn't have time to render and format the newest part of the current audio tale for this week and they will be back next week; which isn't the worst thing. My YouTube statistics show that only one person listened to a story all the way through. So these are more for me than anyone else because creating these help me revise my work. I'm thinking about doing something else with them. I'm planning to experiment with The Dark West audio tale by adding music and sound effects, and plan try to get it on audible as a free short story. I'm very curious about what that may lead to.
Also there's one last note. I post this blog on both my website and Goodreads account. But because unemployment and the horribleness of 2020, I am not going to be able to renew my website domain at the end of this year. So unless I get an amazing job in the next couple of months or my writing become a massive hit, Project-Stories may be going off line for a little while. So in early 2021 all my updates may be at Goodreads only, until I get some stable income again.
With that said, I hope all of you have a good week. I hope you all safe, well, and doing okay in these troubling times. And if you are in the United State I hope you safely enjoy thanksgiving, because despite how bad things are, I think we all have something to be thankful for (no matter how small) after such a difficult year.
For Abby and Caleb, it started as a day of book hunting. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, but when Caleb finds a battered paper back book called 'The Dark West,' things becomes rather odd. Without warning the two of them are sucked into the book. After the incident Caleb is nowhere in sight, and Abby must rely on her bookworm skills to find him in this world of fiction.
Free on Kindle Unlimited.
$.99 for Purchase.
This ebook is available @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VV73FI
Beyond that, I have been working hard on the final draft of Alice: Khoza's Story. After so much work on the previous drafts, the reception from reviewers are much more positive this time around. So the story is a big step closer to publication. Also I have been editing the expansion of Somewhere Beyond The Sea. Again, once I finish it, it will be a re release of the original story at the same price. And if someone already owns the E-story or the anthology that includes it, the owner will automatically get a free upgrade. And those two things are my main focus right now. But also Warped is still being revised off and on as well during all of this. Four chapters so far have been revised.
As far as audio stories go, I didn't have time to render and format the newest part of the current audio tale for this week and they will be back next week; which isn't the worst thing. My YouTube statistics show that only one person listened to a story all the way through. So these are more for me than anyone else because creating these help me revise my work. I'm thinking about doing something else with them. I'm planning to experiment with The Dark West audio tale by adding music and sound effects, and plan try to get it on audible as a free short story. I'm very curious about what that may lead to.
Also there's one last note. I post this blog on both my website and Goodreads account. But because unemployment and the horribleness of 2020, I am not going to be able to renew my website domain at the end of this year. So unless I get an amazing job in the next couple of months or my writing become a massive hit, Project-Stories may be going off line for a little while. So in early 2021 all my updates may be at Goodreads only, until I get some stable income again.
With that said, I hope all of you have a good week. I hope you all safe, well, and doing okay in these troubling times. And if you are in the United State I hope you safely enjoy thanksgiving, because despite how bad things are, I think we all have something to be thankful for (no matter how small) after such a difficult year.
November 8, 2020
An Update on Works in Progress
Hey everyone! I hope you are doing well, and if you're in the United States I hope you managed to survive the election because phew! That was a rough one. In a lot of ways, my field of work was dependent on this election and I can sigh in relief in the fact that it somehow turned toward the better. Not just for me, but I believe for a lot of others as well. But because of this, and some other issues, I got very little done book wise. I did come up with a plan on what to focus on next though.
So right now there are three main things that I am focusing on. I am going to revise the older short story, The Dark West. Which should not take long if I don't get distracted by life and massive elections that will shift the course of American history. Then the final critiques have came in for Alice: Khoza's Tale. So I will be editing that into a third draft, and then heading into the polishing phase. That will be the next new short story to be published. Then lastly, I wrote an expansion for the old short story Somewhere Beyond the Sea I decided to make that a priority to get that polished up and re release the story as a much longer tale. I am not releasing it as a new title, but as the same title. This way people who already own it or the Flying Pigs and Witches short collection in digital (which is the only format they exist in now) will get the expansion as a free update. Also I have been considering releasing paper back versions of the anthologies and creating local giveaways. So I really want Flying Pigs and Witches to be the best version it can be before I do that.
Beyond that, I am also working on revising an older title Warped. It is a goal that I have been moving slowly toward. I promise to complete it one day. Also after Alice: Khoza'a Tale is done, the next new short will be All The Good Times In Boston (A working tittle). Its an dark fantasy apocalypse tale that I wanted to edit and release earlier this year. But this has been such a bad year, that after working so hard on the horror tale Meteor City, I had to work on something more light hearted. But now its back to dark fantasy with this this one. And once all The Good Times in Boston is finished, I will have enough revised shorts for a third volume of short stories. I have no idea what it will be called. I will figure that out when I get there.
And of course, the audio project is still going for the time being.
This week it its the first part of Alice: Stone's Story. It can be found at @ https://youtu.be/vn1r6j5ofOU
And if you decide to check this out and you do like it, there are a few ways to support:
1) By making a small donation thru Patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921
2) By purchasing the ebook version @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0776MR6CC
3) Or if you are a Unlimited Member, download the title and flip through the pages. There is pay for every page read according to Amazon's algorithm and every little bit helps.
4) And also, Alice: Stone's Story is in the Meteors & Monsters collection, so you can support by just checking that out as well.
Overall, that is my plan for now. I know that is not all that exciting. There's no free stuff or sales this week. No new exciting releases. But I hope to have more fun stuff in the future.
So right now there are three main things that I am focusing on. I am going to revise the older short story, The Dark West. Which should not take long if I don't get distracted by life and massive elections that will shift the course of American history. Then the final critiques have came in for Alice: Khoza's Tale. So I will be editing that into a third draft, and then heading into the polishing phase. That will be the next new short story to be published. Then lastly, I wrote an expansion for the old short story Somewhere Beyond the Sea I decided to make that a priority to get that polished up and re release the story as a much longer tale. I am not releasing it as a new title, but as the same title. This way people who already own it or the Flying Pigs and Witches short collection in digital (which is the only format they exist in now) will get the expansion as a free update. Also I have been considering releasing paper back versions of the anthologies and creating local giveaways. So I really want Flying Pigs and Witches to be the best version it can be before I do that.
Beyond that, I am also working on revising an older title Warped. It is a goal that I have been moving slowly toward. I promise to complete it one day. Also after Alice: Khoza'a Tale is done, the next new short will be All The Good Times In Boston (A working tittle). Its an dark fantasy apocalypse tale that I wanted to edit and release earlier this year. But this has been such a bad year, that after working so hard on the horror tale Meteor City, I had to work on something more light hearted. But now its back to dark fantasy with this this one. And once all The Good Times in Boston is finished, I will have enough revised shorts for a third volume of short stories. I have no idea what it will be called. I will figure that out when I get there.
And of course, the audio project is still going for the time being.
This week it its the first part of Alice: Stone's Story. It can be found at @ https://youtu.be/vn1r6j5ofOU
And if you decide to check this out and you do like it, there are a few ways to support:
1) By making a small donation thru Patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921
2) By purchasing the ebook version @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0776MR6CC
3) Or if you are a Unlimited Member, download the title and flip through the pages. There is pay for every page read according to Amazon's algorithm and every little bit helps.
4) And also, Alice: Stone's Story is in the Meteors & Monsters collection, so you can support by just checking that out as well.
Overall, that is my plan for now. I know that is not all that exciting. There's no free stuff or sales this week. No new exciting releases. But I hope to have more fun stuff in the future.
November 1, 2020
The Midnight Special: To Hell & Back is Now on Kindle Unlimited
Hey there everyone. I hope you all had a happy Halloween and managed to be able to celebrate safely in the crazy world of ours.
This week, the updates are pretty light. The Midnight Special: To Hell and Back is finally shuffled onto Kindle Unlimited. So if you're a member, you can read it for free if your a member. I post the synopsis down below.
Life is never dull for the members of "The Midnight Special," the traveling sideshow. Stuck in the desert with no gas, the crew must hike to the closest rest stop to get supplies. But on arrival, they run into trouble. Devil worshiping crazies led by a fire wielding ex boyfriend of the least liked crew member, Ada, comes in and kidnaps her. The crew of misfits find they must track down cult and get her back. Not only to save her life, but to keep the crazies from using her powers to open up the gates of hell and ending the world.
It's 99 cents for purchase and FREE for Kindle Unlimited.
Its available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01L51JE86
Beyond that, I have been working on a new book cover for one of earlier shorts The Dark West and I intend to start revising that soon for a Kindle Unlimited release. So that should be the next thing in the great Kindle Unlimited shuffle. Also Alice: Khoza's Tale is still getting reviewed on over at Scribophile. When the final critiques come in this week I will be finalizing that as well. And are the main focus of everything right now.
I hope you all have a good week. I'll sharing again when I got some more news to share.
This week, the updates are pretty light. The Midnight Special: To Hell and Back is finally shuffled onto Kindle Unlimited. So if you're a member, you can read it for free if your a member. I post the synopsis down below.
Life is never dull for the members of "The Midnight Special," the traveling sideshow. Stuck in the desert with no gas, the crew must hike to the closest rest stop to get supplies. But on arrival, they run into trouble. Devil worshiping crazies led by a fire wielding ex boyfriend of the least liked crew member, Ada, comes in and kidnaps her. The crew of misfits find they must track down cult and get her back. Not only to save her life, but to keep the crazies from using her powers to open up the gates of hell and ending the world.
It's 99 cents for purchase and FREE for Kindle Unlimited.
Its available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01L51JE86
Beyond that, I have been working on a new book cover for one of earlier shorts The Dark West and I intend to start revising that soon for a Kindle Unlimited release. So that should be the next thing in the great Kindle Unlimited shuffle. Also Alice: Khoza's Tale is still getting reviewed on over at Scribophile. When the final critiques come in this week I will be finalizing that as well. And are the main focus of everything right now.
I hope you all have a good week. I'll sharing again when I got some more news to share.
October 25, 2020
The Final Halloween Deal: Hollows is Only 99 Cents!
Hey there everyone, I have a new round of updates and fun news. First of all, the Midnight Special story To Hell and Back is finally done with its revision. It will soon be shuffled over to Kindle Unlimited. Right now I am waiting for the tittle to be removed from other storefronts, so I can be able to do so. It has to be a Kindle exclusive to be part of Kindle Unlimited. So it will probably be available on Kindle Unlimited midweek at the earliest.
Beyond that, the Halloween promotions are continuing. For the final week, its a sale instead of a giveaway and this time around its not a short story but a much longer project. Its a horror book (or novella possibly.) There seems to be no clear consensus between what qualifies as a novel versus novella. But it will be heavily discounted for a dollar this upcoming week. I will post the synopsis and how to get it down below.
After a nasty divorce, the Kerrington family moves to an old family plot land in the town of Hollows. Hollows, they soon find is an odd place where the sun doesn't shine, the buildings are rotten, and strict rules dictate the lives of the children. Brothers, Rodney and Miles, are children who learn about these rules and the consequences. Because in this town, only children can see the tortured souls, the monsters who broke them, and the demonic ghost of Old Man Hollows who watches over the children of the town. Rodney and Miles do their best to follow the rules to not fall victims to this evil, but that is not as easy as they thought.
This will be $.99 from October 28th to October 31st. You can get your copy at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C7VEZAK
And of course I am still doing the audio story thing for what its worth. And part 3 of The Midnight Special: Murder at Blue Bayou is up.
The Midnight Special: Murder at Blue Bayou Part 3 is @ https://youtu.be/H3V4wX-QIHM
And if you decide to check this out and you do like it, there are a few ways to support:
1) By making a small donation thru Patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921
2) By purchasing the ebook version @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C7WQAM0
3) Or if you are a Unlimited Member, download the title and flip through the pages. There is pay for every page read according to Amazon's algorithm and every little bit helps.
4) And also, Murder at Blue Bayou is in the Meteors & Monsters collection, so you can support by just checking that out as well.
And that is all I have to share this week. I hope you all have a great week and a great Halloween. I'll be back with fun news hopefully soon.
Beyond that, the Halloween promotions are continuing. For the final week, its a sale instead of a giveaway and this time around its not a short story but a much longer project. Its a horror book (or novella possibly.) There seems to be no clear consensus between what qualifies as a novel versus novella. But it will be heavily discounted for a dollar this upcoming week. I will post the synopsis and how to get it down below.
After a nasty divorce, the Kerrington family moves to an old family plot land in the town of Hollows. Hollows, they soon find is an odd place where the sun doesn't shine, the buildings are rotten, and strict rules dictate the lives of the children. Brothers, Rodney and Miles, are children who learn about these rules and the consequences. Because in this town, only children can see the tortured souls, the monsters who broke them, and the demonic ghost of Old Man Hollows who watches over the children of the town. Rodney and Miles do their best to follow the rules to not fall victims to this evil, but that is not as easy as they thought.
This will be $.99 from October 28th to October 31st. You can get your copy at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C7VEZAK
And of course I am still doing the audio story thing for what its worth. And part 3 of The Midnight Special: Murder at Blue Bayou is up.
The Midnight Special: Murder at Blue Bayou Part 3 is @ https://youtu.be/H3V4wX-QIHM
And if you decide to check this out and you do like it, there are a few ways to support:
1) By making a small donation thru Patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921
2) By purchasing the ebook version @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C7WQAM0
3) Or if you are a Unlimited Member, download the title and flip through the pages. There is pay for every page read according to Amazon's algorithm and every little bit helps.
4) And also, Murder at Blue Bayou is in the Meteors & Monsters collection, so you can support by just checking that out as well.
And that is all I have to share this week. I hope you all have a great week and a great Halloween. I'll be back with fun news hopefully soon.
