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It's been an amazing yet time-consuming process getting toward our first novel's launch. The best thing that we've been able to see as of yet is the number of users who have marked us as to-read.
I am hopeful that most of you are simply waiting for the end of our giveaway.
However, for those of you who are interested in getting the book now, we have a preorder on Amazon Kindle until May 25th, where you can buy the book for $.99
You can also find us on the Podcast app for iOS and Stitcher for Android.
Please click through and enjoy the book now.
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Thank you for your support!
Bob
It's been an amazing yet time-consuming process getting toward our first novel's launch. The best thing that we've been able to see as of yet is the number of users who have marked us as to-read.
I am hopeful that most of you are simply waiting for the end of our giveaway.
However, for those of you who are interested in getting the book now, we have a preorder on Amazon Kindle until May 25th, where you can buy the book for $.99
You can also find us on the Podcast app for iOS and Stitcher for Android.
Please click through and enjoy the book now.
http://a.co/6dYCFmP
Link: https://www.blubrry.com/expeditionhol...
Thank you for your support!
Bob
February 5, 2013
Hello True Believers!
Hello friends. Welcome to my blog. This shall be a place where we will be able to embark on a journey of discovery together. All of the frustrations, tribulations, and accomplishments that are involved in writing and publishing a novel shall be ours to share. This first novel of mine, "The Malef Chronicles," has already been an interesting portion of my life, and I aim to share all of my experiences with it, with you.
So let me begin at the beginning. I have always loved writing, drawing, and creating. From my earliest memories I remember having a pad in hand, drawing characters or writing little stories for them while on family trips. I remember trips to the comic book store in my elementary years. The building seemed enormous in my then youthful perspective, and I wish the store still was around to see just how big its actual size was. I loved seeing the covers of bagged comics on the wall, Batman: A Death In The Family stands out in my mind to this day. The image of a bloodied Robin captured my young mind, intrigued by what the story within could be about. There was always a certain magic to the comic store, so many stories to consume, such beautiful art to view, and hidden treasures within back issues.
I remember as an even younger child my introduction to cinema. I was about four years old, possibly three. My parent's had obtained a bootlegged copy of Empire Strike's Back, and my mother was bringing the copy of the tape to my brother's elementary school. I remember helping her carry a large plastic bag of homemade popcorn, the smell of butter waft out of its opening. I was hooked from the opening scrawl, my young mind lost in a sea of buttery popcorn, dreaming of being a Jedi like Luke Skywalker, flying through space, saving the galaxy from evil.
Comics, film, and television dominated a good portion of my time. My family moved out to Oahu, Hawaii just before I was due to enter kindergarten. We stayed on the island, hoping around from city to city, until I was done with sixth grade. Hawaii is a great place to vacation, tourism is their main source of income, but as a young white kid it was not the best place to grow up. Outside of the military bases, there is not a large white population, and more so white are generally despised. Racism is not limited to any one nationality, nor is it limited to any age. I found that it was safer to spend my time indoors, lost to the wiles of my imagination and my toys.
Before seventh grade, my family moved off the island, back to the mainland, more specifically Scottsdale, Arizona. It was through school in Arizona that I was more exposed to my love for literature. Book reports brought such titles as 'Where the Red Fern Grows,' 'The Indian and the Cupboard,' 'Of Mice and Men,' and most importantly 'Dune' into my life. 'Dune' was THE book that made me want to write. Prior to moving I had started writing my first "novel". I use the quotes because as a ten year old, a cohesion of thoughts was not as important to me as just getting my ideas down into a tangible form. Unfortunately our move back to the mainland halted my progress on that writing, but it did not extinguish my need to create.
In eighth grade I met a new group of kids, a group of friends that I still am in contact with to this day. We all shared similar interests and would hang out in our free time, playing basketball, going to the arcade, playing dungeons and dragons, and riding our bikes down to the comic shop. It is through these friends that I started further pursuing my creative side. In the summertime during our high school years, and really during any point that we would have any free time, we would go out and shoot our own small films. Locales varied from barren desert hills near, to the opening to the sewer lines, or just simply at one of our homes. The movies we shot were for nothing more than to entertain ourselves.
Later after college, we reconnected, though mainly my best friend Jon and I, and concocted a plan to shoot a feature length film. We had dabbled with film school, but with the advent of digital video, we were confident that we could learn on the fly and create an amazing product. With a few thousand dollars from our parents, we cast a group of new actors, embarked out to Arkansas to Jon's grandparents parcel of forested land, and shot our film over three weeks. Heat exhaustion and poor planning did not halt us, and what we were able to put together ultimately was quite entertaining. Though at first we had hoped to make a more serious film, what we ended up with was a quality satire of the horror genre, much in the vein of what an Ed Wood film is. This film is still free to view on YouTube. .
Unfortunately after the film was finished, egos and personalities clashed. Ultimately a riff developed between Jon and I, though that is a story for a different blog. The momentum we were developing with the film was derailed, and I was left picking up the pieces. Luckily this conundrum was exactly what I needed in my life at the time. While writing and shooting the film, another idea had planted itself in my head. An epic science fiction/fantasy story that would span the course of nine novels. I put the skeletal framework of the story down on paper, and then began the arduous task of writing my first novel. Years later, with 'The Malef Chronicles,' now self published, I have been working tirelessly to try and market the book, and find it an audience.
Part of that marketing will be this blog. I will share of myself unto you, and if what I have to say engages you or even challenges you, then I hope you will give my story a chance.
Regards,
Bob
The Malef Chronicles
So let me begin at the beginning. I have always loved writing, drawing, and creating. From my earliest memories I remember having a pad in hand, drawing characters or writing little stories for them while on family trips. I remember trips to the comic book store in my elementary years. The building seemed enormous in my then youthful perspective, and I wish the store still was around to see just how big its actual size was. I loved seeing the covers of bagged comics on the wall, Batman: A Death In The Family stands out in my mind to this day. The image of a bloodied Robin captured my young mind, intrigued by what the story within could be about. There was always a certain magic to the comic store, so many stories to consume, such beautiful art to view, and hidden treasures within back issues.
I remember as an even younger child my introduction to cinema. I was about four years old, possibly three. My parent's had obtained a bootlegged copy of Empire Strike's Back, and my mother was bringing the copy of the tape to my brother's elementary school. I remember helping her carry a large plastic bag of homemade popcorn, the smell of butter waft out of its opening. I was hooked from the opening scrawl, my young mind lost in a sea of buttery popcorn, dreaming of being a Jedi like Luke Skywalker, flying through space, saving the galaxy from evil.
Comics, film, and television dominated a good portion of my time. My family moved out to Oahu, Hawaii just before I was due to enter kindergarten. We stayed on the island, hoping around from city to city, until I was done with sixth grade. Hawaii is a great place to vacation, tourism is their main source of income, but as a young white kid it was not the best place to grow up. Outside of the military bases, there is not a large white population, and more so white are generally despised. Racism is not limited to any one nationality, nor is it limited to any age. I found that it was safer to spend my time indoors, lost to the wiles of my imagination and my toys.
Before seventh grade, my family moved off the island, back to the mainland, more specifically Scottsdale, Arizona. It was through school in Arizona that I was more exposed to my love for literature. Book reports brought such titles as 'Where the Red Fern Grows,' 'The Indian and the Cupboard,' 'Of Mice and Men,' and most importantly 'Dune' into my life. 'Dune' was THE book that made me want to write. Prior to moving I had started writing my first "novel". I use the quotes because as a ten year old, a cohesion of thoughts was not as important to me as just getting my ideas down into a tangible form. Unfortunately our move back to the mainland halted my progress on that writing, but it did not extinguish my need to create.
In eighth grade I met a new group of kids, a group of friends that I still am in contact with to this day. We all shared similar interests and would hang out in our free time, playing basketball, going to the arcade, playing dungeons and dragons, and riding our bikes down to the comic shop. It is through these friends that I started further pursuing my creative side. In the summertime during our high school years, and really during any point that we would have any free time, we would go out and shoot our own small films. Locales varied from barren desert hills near, to the opening to the sewer lines, or just simply at one of our homes. The movies we shot were for nothing more than to entertain ourselves.
Later after college, we reconnected, though mainly my best friend Jon and I, and concocted a plan to shoot a feature length film. We had dabbled with film school, but with the advent of digital video, we were confident that we could learn on the fly and create an amazing product. With a few thousand dollars from our parents, we cast a group of new actors, embarked out to Arkansas to Jon's grandparents parcel of forested land, and shot our film over three weeks. Heat exhaustion and poor planning did not halt us, and what we were able to put together ultimately was quite entertaining. Though at first we had hoped to make a more serious film, what we ended up with was a quality satire of the horror genre, much in the vein of what an Ed Wood film is. This film is still free to view on YouTube. .
Unfortunately after the film was finished, egos and personalities clashed. Ultimately a riff developed between Jon and I, though that is a story for a different blog. The momentum we were developing with the film was derailed, and I was left picking up the pieces. Luckily this conundrum was exactly what I needed in my life at the time. While writing and shooting the film, another idea had planted itself in my head. An epic science fiction/fantasy story that would span the course of nine novels. I put the skeletal framework of the story down on paper, and then began the arduous task of writing my first novel. Years later, with 'The Malef Chronicles,' now self published, I have been working tirelessly to try and market the book, and find it an audience.
Part of that marketing will be this blog. I will share of myself unto you, and if what I have to say engages you or even challenges you, then I hope you will give my story a chance.
Regards,
Bob
The Malef Chronicles
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