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March 15, 2014
Starship’s Mage: Episode Two is Out now!
Starship’s Mage Episode Two is out!
Buy it at any of the links below:
Amazon.com (Kindle)
Amazon.ca (Kindle)
Amazon.co.uk (Kindle)
Other Amazon Stores (Kindle)
Smashwords (Any Device)
Google Play Books (Android devices)
Kobo Books (Kobo)
Barnes & Noble Nook (Nook)
Starship’s Mage is set in a future we would never have predicted: where humanity’s far flung interstellar colonies are tied together by the Protectorate of the Mage King of Mars and the magic of the Jump Mages.
Damien Montgomery, Ship’s Mage on an interstellar freighter, broke the rules to save his ship from pirates.
Now he and his crew must repair the damage and find a cargo – without anyone learning how they survived!
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March 11, 2014
Starship’s Mage Episode 2 out this Saturday
Starship’s Mage Episode 2 is now in all respects complete and has begun the process of being uploaded, converted, uploaded to another site, vetted, etc.
It is available for pre-order on Smashwords and Kobo
It will be available on Saturday, March 15 on: Amazon, Google, Kobo and Smashwords. It should be available shortly afterwards on Nook and Apple.
We’ll have a landing page up on Saturday with the links for each site.
Looking forward to seeing what everyone thinks.
Glynn Stewart
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March 2, 2014
Starship’s Mage Episode 2 – Coming Soon!
Starship’s Mage Episode 2 is complete, has had its run-ins with the beta readers, and is waiting on a cover.
I’m targeting release on Amazon, Kobo, Google, Smashwords and iBooks for March 15, 2014.
If you want to be notified when the Episode releases, please join the new mailing list at the top left, or watch this space!
Hope you’re all warmer than we are here!
Glynn Stewart
(our wind chill number has been bouncing at -40 for the last two days. Curiosity is warmer than we are ;))
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February 1, 2014
Ebooks and channels and glitches, oh my!
Firstly, Starship’s Mage Episode 1 is now up on Barnes & Noble Nook.
It’s up on Barnes & Noble without the backcover text, which isn’t an issue if you find it from here. According to my distributor, this will sort itself out… soon.
There’s been a few glitches along the way with the distribution process. Where I directly control the release dates and text content, there’s been no issues. Unfortunately, the middle of December was apparently a bad time to try and insert an ebook into the digital supply chain, as it seems to have slipped through the cracks at a few places.
Lessons learned? Episode 2 will be given to the distributor in advance. All of my ‘final draft’ targets for Starship’s Mage have been moved up a couple of weeks to allow time for it to trickle through. This does not chance the targeted release, and Episode 2 will still be out in March.
In the main, the whole e-book distribution process has been extremely user friendly and flowed smoothly. Most of the glitches seem to have arisen from my own timing.
Now, a fellow-traveller in the authorial space of mine (who has traveled a bit further than me, with two books being published soon that you should check out!), Marshall Maresca has been laying out his experiences in getting published, and commenting why if he had self-published at various points, he would have shot himself in the foot by not being ready.
Surprisingly, I agree with him completely! I have three or four novels (depending on the day) and a lot of novel starts that will never be seen and that, trust me, most people don’t want to see. It’s only in the last four years that I would really regard the work I’ve produced as publishable. My agent has two novels that he is shopping around, and I am working on a third.
Starship’s Mage is in many senses an experiment. It’s experimenting with a modified form, dividing the longer story into distinct shorter arcs, and experimenting with self-publishing and marketing. So far, the experiment is being moderately successful, but I have no intentions of not continuing to seek traditional publication.
So, for those of you considering self-publishing, I have good news and bad news for you. The good news: self-publishing really is straightforward and simple. The bad news: if your work isn’t truly ready for the wider world, you are only setting yourself up for disappointment. Even if it is ready, which I think Starship’s Mage is proving itself to be, going from ‘being self-published’ to ‘being a successful self-published author’ is a longer journey than you think it is.
Think it through. Look at your work with as hard and critical an eye as you can manage. And if you take the plunge, good luck!
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January 17, 2014
Project Wonderful
The odds are that if you’re reading this, you followed a Project Wonderful ad-link to this site.
Project Wonderful ads for Starship’s Mage: Episode 1 have been running across the internet for about 24 hours so far, and I’m watching the results carefully XD
So far, quite impressed with the tools available with Project Wonderful and would recommend them to anyone looking to advertise in the more geek-focused corners of the internet.
In other news, Starship’s Mage is now up on Google Play Books, as a gentleman who enjoyed the book enough to leave a five star review on Amazon suggested it. They weren’t a vendor I’d looked at before, but they’ll be a day one launch vendor for Episode 2.
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January 13, 2014
New Retailers for Starship’s Mage
Just a heads up that Starship’s Mage is now available on Inktera and Diesel.
Diesel (Any Device)
Inktera (Any Device)
Both are e-pub distributors if you were looking for a non-mainline source for one 
Also, awesome AWESOME five star review on Amazon.
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January 1, 2014
Starship’s Mage up on iBooks
Just a quick announcement to let any iBooks users in the audience know that Starship’s Mage: Episode 1 is now available on iBooks!
iBooks (iPhone and other Apple Devices)
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December 22, 2013
Stats & Thoughts – Starship’s Mage One Week In
So, Starship’s Mage: Episode 1 has been out in the wild for a whole week!
It’s done better than I was afraid it would, and not as well as I hoped, but that’s the nature of the experiment. We’ll be testing a few marketing techniques along the way to March 15th and the launch of Episode 2.
A week out though, I figured it was time for a bit of retrospective. First off, that wonderful toy of all accountants: statistics!
The split between the different sales channels was interesting – especially the dominance of Amazon.com, as almost all of my direct marketing was focused on my Canadian friends and colleagues (it seems either some Canadian sales show up as Amazon.com, or my Facebook and Twitter are not as Canuckistan focused as I think!)
I’ve also had enough ‘I’ll buy it once its on Kobo’ comments to be very glad I did not choose to go with KDP Select. While Amazon is my predominant source of sales, I have to wonder if that will hold up once the ebook hits Kobo, iBooks, and Barnes and Noble come January (the ‘Books’ page above will be updated with the relevant links once I see the ebook go up). Smashwords itself has been popular among the people I’ve talked to, as it provides a wider variety of reading options as well – if you buy it on Kindle, its not easy to read it on anything except Kindle.
Overall, it’s been an intimidating experience that we’re learning from, and I’m looking forward to seeing where it goes in the new year.
Merry Christmas, Blessed Solstice, Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Year and Happy Holidays to all.
I’ll see you in the New Year.
Glynn Stewart
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