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Shattered Teaser #7

Here’s Teaser #7 for Shattered. A big thanks to Mei again for helping out! The quote on this one is from a scene that sets the stage for the next big set of developments in the series. It includes the introduction of a new character whose been a long time coming, one who’s incredibly important to the storyline!

Shattered Teaser #6

Here’s Teaser #6. As always, big thanks to Mei for doing these. We’re now just 8 days from Shattered going live and 11 days from Marked releasing.

Shattered Teaser #5

Here’s the fifth teaser–also by Mei.

Thanks, Mei!

Shattered Teaser #4

I’ve totally dropped the ball over the last few days and failed to get any teasers up This is actually one of my favorites–Mei has a real gift for putting pictures together!

The quote is from Adri’s fight with Kaleb….

Shattered Teaser #3

Another great teaser from Mei! I see all of these a while before everyone else does, but by the time I post them, I’ve often forgotten just how much I liked them. Mei picked out a really gorgeous background for this one!

To give things a little context, this is a quote from Cindi talking to Adri

Thanks, Mei!

–Dean

Shattered Teaser #2

Another great teaser from Mei! Don’t forget that Shattered is available for pre-order at most of the main retailers–you can see links on the Shattered Product Page.

I’m extra excited about this one–it’s going to blow a lot of people’s minds

Dean

Shattered Teaser

Big thanks to Mei for this teaser!

 

November Rewards

Hello, Everyone.

I once again lost track of the day, so I just got to the November rewards drawing.

I’m happy to announce that Anthony M was the winner for November. I’ve sent Anthony his advance reader copies of both Marked and Shattered, and will be sending off his signed copy of Riven shortly.

The Rabid Rewards program hasn’t generated much excitement, so I’ve gone ahead and shut down the program and awarded the rest of the people who took the time to fill out the form advance reader copies of both Shattered and Marked as a thanks for all of their efforts.

All the best,

Dean

Price Increase for the Touched by Love Bundle

For various reasons that are too complex to be worth getting into here, the Touched by Love bundle will be increasing in price to $1.99 sometime very soon. If you were on the fence about it, now’s your chance to grab it before the price goes up!

Thanks,

Dean

November 2014 Status Update

I can’t remember a time when I was more excited about the lineup of books that was headed your way!

Shattered and Marked are both available for pre-order, and they are both going to catch everyone by surprise. My advance readers continue to get more excited about the Reflections Universe with each book, and these two have been no exception to that rule.

My decision to re-arrange my work flow has seemed to yield all of the dividends I was hoping for. In July I wrote the first book in my new series (The Awakening–more on that in days to come). Then in Sept. and Oct. I wrote books #2 & #3 in that series.

At this point only Katie and my editors have had a chance to read any of this new world, but it’s going to take you all by surprise. The ‘magic’ is unique, and there is an incredible back story that each book reveals another layer of.

Today I finished writing Dark Reflections #5 (I’m playing around with the title of Burned, but not sure if I’ll stay with that one–what do you all think?)

I feel like each and every Dark Reflections book is better than the last, and DR #5 is no exception to that rule. There are several massive reveals in DR #5 and the ending is something that is going to take everyone by surprise.

Last year I wrote just over 581,000 words. This year I’ve written 722,000 words already and hope to knock out another 80,000-100,000 before December rolls around. Next year it is entirely possible I could hit 1 million words.

The current plan is for December, January & Feb will be spent writing a new series (probably a YA dystopian novel), then March will feature another book from the Reflections Universe, and April, May, & June will be another new series (hopefully a YA Space Opera).

July, August, and September will probably be another series altogether, and then I’ll write the next chapter of the Reflections Universe starting in October. Beyond that the crystal ball gets really cloudy, but even the plans I detailed out here are a little nebulous, so please don’t be too disappointed if things end up heading another direction.

So far over the course of my writing career I’ve written more than 2.2 million words (roughly double the size of the complete Harry Potter series). Of that 2.2 million words, 1.5 million has already been published, another 230k will be published in December, and  an additional 294k will be published in roughly the first half of next year.

If I’m able to keep up my more recent book per month pace, there’s a possibility that the last half of next year could see a book per month released, which is more than a little intimidating for me to write.

Still, a goal that hasn’t been written down is less likely to be achieved, and I’d really like to make 2015 a banner production and release year. Katie and I have committed to one more year of full-time writing, so I’m going to do everything I can to get as many books out as possible between now and Dec 2015 so that I can continue to do this for many more years to come!

A big thanks to all of you for everything you do!

Dean