Richard Raley's Blog, page 43

Sharing is Good

Working on the 4th-but-going-to-be-published-3rd King Henry Short and I thought I'd share a line for a chuckle:

“This? This is very well behaved for King Henry. He hasn't even called anyone a fucktard yet.”

Amazon Japan

Now up in Amazon Japan:  http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B005JX356O

Excuse me as I go watch some Naruto and play some Pokemon Black to celebrate the new foreign market for people to not buy my books in!

Finally On Kobo

All my The King Henry Tapes books have finally been uploaded for sale on Kobo.  Here's some direct links.

FANGED LADY (FREE):  The Foul Mouth #1
CAT KILLING COYOTES:  The Foul Mouth #2
LITTLE KING HENRY:  King Henry Short #1
CONQUERING HERO:  King Henry Short #2

Enjoy!

September Writing Update

There's not a whole lot to say about the last six or so months.  After the publishing of FM2 and KH Short 2 by April I was completely worn out.  3 books, 3 shorts, and a fan fiction serial published within one year, totaling about 500k words of work in all...the tank was empty.

I've been resting up and taking a well deserved break through August.  There's been some writing because I'm a writer and it's just what I do sometimes.  Think 5k to 10k a month instead of the usual 15k-20k+.  And none of the chaos or the crazy...no editing or formatting or all the extra it takes to be an Indie.

I've also spent that writing time away from King Henry for a bit, on a pair of writing experiments that might turn into stand alone novels.  "Foliage" and "Rockets", codenames, not titles.  "Foliage" is New Weird, no human characters...and it's crazy and violent and I promise I don't do LSD.  Way crazy even for me.  I'm really doubtful it will ever see the light of day given the weight of needed world-building exposition but...how are you going to know if a main character can be a Tree until you've tried it?  "Rockets" I'm more hopeful for, it would be a fantasy novel set to WWI tech, a mix of Steampunk and Space Opera....so Steam Opera.

As for King Henry, I have written half of the School Story for FM3 so far and started one of the two shorts that will be releasing leading up to that book.  One is from Tyson's POV about the first time he met King Henry in Fresno and the second is from Welf's POV the first day of second year.  New teachers, new classes, etc.

So far, so good.  I'm really excited about FM3, it's going to be longer, it's going to raise the stakes.

These are the five projects I plan to work on over the next year.  Mostly King Henry, with some "Rockets", and maybe taking another crack at "Foliage" to see if I can fix the exposition problem.  After that...don't make me think that long term please...

The Foul Mouth Spreads

More FANGED LADY freeness!
Blio:  NEVER HEARD OF IT BUT I'M SELLING ON ITAmazon.co.UK:  OLYMPICS SMOLYMPICS

Free the Foul Mouth

Just to say it one more time:  FOUL MOUTH AND THE FANGED LADY IS FREE!

This is free...just FYI...ehm...

Amazon.com:  ON THE KINDLE
Apple:  ON THE iPAD AND iPHONE AND iMANCYKNOWSWHATELSE
Barnes and Noble:  ON THE NOOK
Smashwords:  ON THE...WHATEVER IT IS THEY SELL TO, I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE...

Spread the word, yee disciples of the Foul Mouthed Price...

Back Up on Barnes and Noble!

Here's the links!

The Fanged Lady:  Barnes and Noble Nook (FREE)
Cat Killing Coyotes:  Barnes and Noble Nook (for the first time ever)
Little King Henry:  Barnes and Noble Nook 
Prime Pickings: Barnes and Noble Nook 
The Betrothal:  Barnes and Noble Nook

Try not to have too much fun.

Back Up on Apple iTunes

Here's the links!

The Fanged Lady:  Apple iTunes
Cat Killing Coyotes:  Apple iTunes (for the first time ever)
Little King Henry:  Apple iTunes
Prime Pickings:  Apple iTunes
The Betrothal:  Apple iTunes

Still waiting on B&N, Kobo, and Sony, will let you lot know when they're all the way up.

Back Up on Smashwords

Here's the links!

The Fanged Lady:  Smashwords
Cat Killing Coyotes:  Smashwords (for the first time ever)
Little King Henry:  Smashwords
Prime Pickings:  Smashwords
The Betrothal:  Smashwords

Of course the big news is that THE FOUL MOUTH AND THE FANGED LADY is free and will be free at least for the rest of the year, maybe all the way through 2013 as well.  I'm doing the whole "free sample and get them addicted" trick for the series.  This isn't just a Smashwords thing and will also be true for their distribution network (Nook, iTunes, Sony, Kobo, etc).  After it's up on those hopefully Amazon will price match and you King Henry fans that already exist can have some serious company.

Also, you might have noticed that the Conquering Hero short story is missing, it won't be cleared from Kindle Select until July 18, I'll post it then.

Transitions

Thought I'd let you lot know that I'll be moving away from Kindle Select and putting my books back out through Smashwords, Kobo, Nook, itunes, etc. over the next month or so.  I've had some limited success with Select's free day system, but not nearly enough to keep myself tied to one source.  Plus, not really fair to people with Kobos, Nooks, iPads, and the million other types of ereaders out there now.  You all deserve to have King Henry Price curse at you too!

I'll throw up more posts as each site gets updated.

Oh, writing wise...still working on FM 3.  Not so much with the typing as with the thinking.  A lot of my process comes from me running scenes through my head over and over and the typing is a small part after the hard work is already done.  This means I get to claim I'm "working" even if I'm playing Magic Duel of the Planeswalker 2013.

Now if they'd just release an update with a Blue/Black ultimate "you're a dick for discarding my hand and then my whole library" deck...