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February 21, 2015
LIVE!
Asylum is live on Amazon Kindle! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TVF0S8E Whoo hoo! (Time to do the happy dance!) And because we are doing the Happy Dance, both Alecto and The Morning which Breaks are on sale for a week! Get Alecto for only $0.99 and The Morning which Breaks for $1.99! Okay, now we’ll get back to work…… Continue reading...
February 20, 2015
Submitted!
Asylum has been submitted for publication! If all goes well, it should be live on Amazon KDP in the 12 hours or so. We will update here with a link as soon as it goes live! For those interested in such things, the print edition (with should be live on Createspace early next week) came… Continue reading...
January 29, 2015
We have a date!
We have a release date for Asylum (good lord willing and the creek don’t rise): February 20th. If there are no hiccups with Amazon, the Kindle edition should be available that weekend (February 21st-22nd). The paperback version will follow within 2 or 3 weeks. (The paperback version always seems to take a while to get… Continue reading...
January 21, 2015
To preorder or . . .
We are a little curious how our faithful readers feel about preordering books. In the larger publishing universe, preorders are used to drive a lot of marketing decisions. In the itsy-bitsy space we inhabit, there doesn’t seem to be much point to it. (I’ll admit I don’t really understand how preorders affect Amazon rankings and… Continue reading...
December 24, 2014
Happy Holidays! (and a draft)
Happy Holidays! We hope everyone is enjoying the season! For our part, we’d like to announce that the draft of Asylum is complete and will be sent out for review very shortly. With all the vagaries of final editing and proofreading and all that sort of nice thing, we anticipate releasing the book by the… Continue reading...
November 29, 2014
Third time’s a charm
. . . instead of three strikes, we hope. We just completed another major revision and reorganization of Wogan’s Reef, with additional material added to expand Part 1. We believe we now have a stable ‘configuration’ (if we can use such a term) that will allow us to complete the rest of the story without… Continue reading...
October 29, 2014
An Extraordinary Anniversary
Last Saturday, there passed a most notable anniversary, and I’m sorry I was traveling and thus unable to post this when it was due, for it was the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Samar. The Battle of Samar, fought on the morning 25 October 1944, as part of the larger Battle of Leyte Gulf,… Continue reading...
October 27, 2014
Progress Report #2
Just when you think you’re done with something . . . We decided Wogan’s Reef, Part 1 needed more work, and so we expanded it with two additional chapters. Work on Wogan’s Reef, Part 2 is progressing, and we’ll post a more detailed breakdown around the end of this week. Many thanks to everyone who… Continue reading...
October 12, 2014
Progress Report
This is where we are on the next book: Wogan’s Reef, Part 1 is 133 pages long. It has undergone alpha review and we are getting it to into beta shape now. Wogan’s Reef, Part 2 is at 107 pages. We are still working on the first draft, and we estimate it to be ~66%… Continue reading...
October 5, 2014
The Alpha Blues [Not!]
We’ve gotten a lot of great feedback from our awesome readers on the alpha chapters we’ve released thus far. So we are far from blue! (Tickled pink is more like it!) As a result, we are reorganizing Part 1, restructuring some chapters, and adding some new chapters. For this reason, we will not be releasing… Continue reading...
