One year, three novels. Help me do it!

Making a living as a writer is a tough gig. Sometimes it turns out to be impossible. For me, now having returned to full-time study so I can become a high-school teacher, it’s the latter. Essentially, after almost two years of living off the proceeds of my book sales, things have kinda… collapsed. That’s the market, man. I could blame any number of factors but the simple truth is that not everyone gets to have a mega-hit, or even a sorta-hit. What most people would do in this situation is to throw up their hands and say, “Oh, well. Guess I’ll give up this book stuff and start a new-wave punk band called The Mother England Baby Cannon” or something along those lines. Not me. The way I see it, I’ve got two options. One: I tell my readers and fans to cool their jets and put all my projects on hold for the next two years, until I have a full-time job and enough security to resume writing, and flip burgers at McDonalds to pay the bills. Two: I ask you for help. I really, really don’t like disappointing people. With your support, I’d like to write and publish three novels in 2014: Century of Sand 2, Rust: Season 2, and Olesia Anderson 7. One fantasy novel, one horror novel, and one espionage thriller. To do that, I need enough cash to keep a roof over my head and Mi-Goreng in my belly to pump out just under 400,000 […]