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Get your hands on the new novel early

Hey hey!

Quick update on the Exclusion Zone crowdfunding.

The campaign was fully funded in just four hours! Which means the special edition will go ahead before the Amazon edition hits the store very late May.

There are plenty of rewards still on offer, including signed paperbacks and a short writing critique from Yours Truly. Limited numbers on these, though.

If you've never participated in crowdfunding or Kickstarter before, it's easy: you sign up, you make a pledge at whatever level you're comfy with, when the campaign is over they ask you for the funds you pledged. Then the creator starts sending those rewards out.

Be among the first in the world to receive the new ENVOYS Universe novel with bonus content that will never appear in the eventual Amazon version.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

Take care!

Pete

Kickstarter for new Envoys Universe novel!

Hola,

Have you ever said you’re going to get around to something so often and for so long that people stopped listening to you. And stopped expecting you to actually do it.

I’ve been promising a new Envoys Universe novel for a year now. I started writing the darn thing back then.

Then life happened. COVID and months of health problems, a bevy of house moves, my father passing away…

(Good things happened too. I co-wrote another space opera novel with a buddy of mine. Looking forward t...

Sales Pitch Loaded…and…GO!

You know what someone you care about needs for Xmas? A [post-apocalyptic/space marines/werewolf] book [choose whichever genre fits their tastes].

If you’re in Australia and think it’d be cool to give something a little different to a friend or family member who’s a reader, why not consider one of Yours Truly’s paperbacks? It would come signed by “the author”.

I can only offer this for residents of Australia unfortunately because shipping costs overseas from here are ridiculous. The price of a si...

Interview with Pete (more a chat between Pete and Edwin)

I was rather chuffed to be a guest on Episode 30 of Alternate Futures last month. Highly recommend Edwin’s series of author chats. He chooses interesting topics and a terrific creative exercise at the end of each episode. Link below.

ALTERNATE FUTURES interview on mental health in fiction and religion in scifi.

Still a Handful of BM Paperbacks Left If You’d Like One (or two!)

Success is the funding of a new edition of an established novel

After our successful Kickstarter, I have a small number of paperbacks at my home unsold during the campaign. If you’d like one (signed!), best to email me at pete @ petealdin.com

Prices will be:

1 book delivered to any Australian address: $AUD30

1 book delivered to EU, Canada, US, UK: $AUD65

With either of these options, I’ll throw in an ebook of your choice.

Not too many left. And I’ll be closing this option off ...

And so begins a personal endeavour.

I think I have a “problem”. It’s not a rare one, by any means. Because I keep meeting people with the very same one.

You see, I buy books. I mean to read them. Honest. Then I don’t. Meanwhile I buy more books.

Not my real house. But it will be soon

I’ve stopped counting the books I own that I haven’t read (ebooks and paper), and the count stopped at 200. This is after we gave away a LOT of books when we moved house. Like probably, again, 200.

And so I commence an endeavour. A per...

Still Some Rare Rewards Available

Some AI-generated werewolf pictures I’ve been tooling around with.

We’re almost at the end of the BLACK MARKS Kickstarter campaign. But there are some rare and unusual rewards still available:

if you’re a writer or you know a writer, there’s one manuscript critique available A single copy of the editor’s mark up of the 2016 draft – an exclusive pdf copy of the book’s original draft with all the editor’s comments and corrections throughout it (one only) Personal QnA session with the author...

Fully Funded and Still Going On

We crushed it. The BLACK MARKS special edition Kickstarter hit its financial target in 36 hours from launch. On Kickstarter, if a project doesn’t get enough backers to hit that target, it doesn’t go ahead. To do it so quickly was amazing.

A few days later, we have 183% of that target in backing… with new backers coming on every day. There are plenty more rewards and reward levels on offer, so there’s room for even more backers! This is the ONLY way you get this version of this book.

Ou...

Black Marks Version 2: How You Can Help Make It Happen!

Can you believe it’s five years since BLACK MARKS was launched?!

To celebrate, we want to create a fifth anniversary edition with two new scenes (one from the wolf’s perspective) and a fresh editor’s polish.

New cover art too, as you can see here…

We’ve chosen Kickstarter as a way of getting this project over the line — and keeping it exclusive and special. (ie., no one is getting this edition on Amazon or Booktopia etc — only on Kickstarter).

There’s two ways you can support: ...

You moved house how many times??

The answers to that question are:

four times in two weeks, five times overall (since early May).

This has been partly because our new house was only finished 10 months after it was supposed to be completed.

We sold our family home of 12 years in May and had to vacate. For the next five months, we had to find short term rentals, with no real idea of how long we’d be there.

Because the three of us my wife, our adult son and I have actual lives, we could only put so much of our stuff i...