Michael R. Wilson's Blog, page 9

The Battle Rages On…

Just wanted to take a moment to thank my wife and daughter for all their help in the past few weeks. The process to e-publish a book is daunting for a first-timer.

Lea has been a 100% involved throughout. She has read and re-read the manuscript until all hours of the night in order to help make Huntsman as error-free as we can get it. We drank lots of coffee, snarled at each other, apologized and kept plugging away at it.

And Little-Girl…oh, she was a trooper! There is nothing…not one thing… ab...

An Excerpt From Chapter Eight of Huntsman

From Chapter 8

The manse fairly sparkled in the torchlight. Aila puffed a stray lock of wheat-brown hair from her face and lowered herself to the bench by the hearth.

For but a moment, she told herself. It had been a busy day and for just a breath or two, she allowed herself the luxury of sitting. There was time before the guests began to arrive and if she did not admire the work of her labors now, she knew she would not.

Armed with her mother’s exacting lists, and her small army of servants beh...

Pure Magic!

I hold in my hands…and believe me it makes it very hard to type, yet I cannot bear to put it down…a paperback copy of my book.

I love those words. I have been grinning like an idiot since the UPS guy dropped it on our back porch. It’s REAL. There’s paper and ink with a spine and back cover blurb with our picture beneath. (No…I have NOT begun referring to myself in the third person tense. I put a family photo.)

It’s got page numbers! And a table of contents. And all my words printed right there...

In other news…Huntsman: in Paperback?

While the e-book versions of Huntsman have uploaded and become available for Createspace.

I am a little nervous and a lot excited about the idea of having my book in my hands instead of on a sc...

HUNTSMAN for Nook available now!

Here is the link for Barnes & Noble Nook version of HUNTSMAN.

HUNTSMAN for Nook!

Anyone can buy the Nook version even if you don’t own a Nook. There are free apps for PC, Mac, iPhones, Androids, iPads & Tablets.

Free Nook Reader Apps.

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HUNTSMAN for Kindle available now!

Here is the link for Amazon for the Kindle version of HUNTSMAN.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008GHJLH2

Anyone can buy the Kindle version even if you don’t own a Kindle. There are free apps for PC, Mac, iPhones, Blackberrys,Androids, iPads & Tablets.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_361458882_3?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-9&pf_rd_r=0WKVWNNC2RPCWA3JW9S2&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=1354791522&pf_rd_i=1000426311

HUNTSMAN for e-readers available now!

Here is the link for Smashwords.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/177807

It will ask you to register to use the sight, but it is a free account and only takes a minute. Anyone who does not own a Kindle or Nook can choose from multiple styles of HUNTSMAN as downloadable e-books or read it from their web-browser. Sample segment available.

Huntsman Launch Day Eve Video!

For my Launch Day Eve Festivities I prepared a video exposing the grueling process of writing a book, editing, formatting etc…

The checklist from Hell…

I am on the brink of self-publishing…

WHAT WAS I THINKING?

Here are some things I never knew before:

No program on the planet will stay at 300 dots per inch when I set it there.They must all revert back to 72 dpi when the hour strikes!

Margins, headers and footers will all stand up, stretch and shuffle aimlessly around my document as soon as my back is turned. They are like a band of Settings Zombies whose source of nourishment consists of the screams of Outrage and tufts of hair I hurl at them w...

Back Cover Synopsis for HUNTSMAN: Book One of the Hunted Mage Trilogy

~AD 1011 Ancient Finland ~

Once upon a time…Words held more Power and dragons roamed the world.

For Eyulf, the youngest son of a minor lord, the opportunity to train with a Rune-Singer Mage was the chance of a lifetime. He is content…until he discovers a volume of Lost Words, powerful Runes forgotten through the ages. As he tampers with Magic he cannot control, things go wrong quickly.

Jaakko, a simple huntsman, returns to his home late one night to find his village destroyed by a creature out o...