"Don't worry about getting published everywhere, worry about publishing WELL..."

Permuted Pressreleased their *tentative* release schedule for 2013 today - 

January
Among the Dead by Timothy Long
Dead Living by Glenn Bullion


February
Comes the Dark by Patrick D'Orazio
Ammon's Horn by Stan Timmons


March
Into the Dark by Patrick D'Orazio
Dead Earth: Sanctuary by Mark Justice & David Wilbanks


April
Beyond the Dark by Patrick D'Orazio


May
The Becoming 3 by Jessica Meigs


June
Roads Less Traveled 3 byC. Dulaney
Eden: Moriah by Tony Monchinski


July
Omega Dog by D.L. Snell& Thom Brannan


August
Brew by Bill Braddock


September
The Pen Name by D.L. Snell & Jacob Kier


October

Pale Gods by Kim Paffenroth


November

The Vampire Count of Monte Cristo by Matthew Baugh


December
The Undead Situation 2 by Eloise J. Knapp


As you can see, there are a few months in there where there's a potential spot for the third Gibson Blount novel. Here's the thing: that can only happen IF our current novel, IF GOD DOESN'T SHOW (published by Permuted Press in July) establishes a great-to- awesome sales record. In this business, you're only as good as your last novel sales.  
I've learned a lot over the past 13 or so years of publishing and writing. I've made a few missteps and I've had some minor successes. About 2 years ago, author Brian Keenesaid something to me that really stuck with me. He said, "Don't worry about getting published everywhere, worry about publishing WELL..." Up to that point, I'd be basically shotgunning my submissions to anywhere I could think of. I wasn't concentrating on writing well, I was concentrating on writing a lot. Naturally, I saw nothing but rejections. I sat back and evaluated my career, such as it was back then, and realized most of my work wasn't even being read, sure, I was getting published, but I wasn't growing my readership. The same small group was reading my work, sure, but there were no new readers discovering my work. That's a major issue with the small press pond. Don't get me wrong, some do quite well in that pond and I enjoy their work, but it's unsustainable in the long run. I want to last as a writer, I want to keep writing and I want to have new readers discover my work. 
I realized after that conversation with Brian that I was approaching my career all wrong. I buckled down and stepped back from submitting my work and worked on getting better as an author. I subbed to select markets, nearly all pro-paying, high readership and the like. The rejections were enormous and crushing. I started to concentrate on creating something sustainable, sure I still wrote the occasional short story, but I focused on novel/novella length projects. I zeroed in on writing stories I knew would sell, I stopped writing story after story unless I had a specific market in mind. 
I queried Permuted a number of times, and got rejected. Eventually, John and I managed to perk their interest with the Gibson Blount series. At the time, I thought we were set, I had my career planned out for the next 10 years in that moment. Permuted was easily the biggest platform either I or John had had to date. The readers would come, we'd have visibility. All my fellow author friends would share the crap out of the new release and the sales would come. 
Please consider picking up IF GOD DOESN'T SHOW  from Permuted. Please consider passing the link along to your followers, your own readers, your own friends. Let me know and I'll do my best to pass on your links, your work to my own small group. I'd like to keep writing about Gibson Blount, I'd like to keep writing period, but there's no point if there's no market for the work. I believe in the series, I love this series of novellas, novels, and short stories centered around Blount. Novel #3 is finished and novels 4-6 are outlined, plotted, and ready to be written. The first novella THE FLESH OF FALLEN ANGELS is available from Grand Mal Press. There's a potential comic series, even. But none of that can happen unless we sale copies and none of that can happen unless readers know this series exists and none of this can happen without YOUR help. 
Support Permuted Press in general, there one of the best publishers I've worked with to date, support all these authors in the above release schedule next year, I've read most of them and they're damn good. 

Thomas