#CyborgFriday – Announcement regarding Cybrosis

So, once again, I find myself coming here and apologizing for the length of time between my latest posts.  My friend, Doc Coleman, rightly pointed out, I need to work on my posting frequency.  And yet despite that… It’s been quiet here on the blog.  However, things have been very very busy in the past month or so.

It is fitting that this post is live today, a day when I am in Des Moines, Iowa attending DemiCon 25, where Tee Morris is the guest of honor.

Many of you are aware that Cybrosis started as a college project.  An extremely early (and extremely rough) version of it’s first chapter was turned in as a story for a short story composition class I was taking as an elective.  An early version of Chapter 2 was the second short story turned in for that class and over the course of a year, I wrote the earliest draft of Cybrosis.  What many of you do not know is that I attended College in Des Moines, Iowa.

It is fitting that today, I am celebrating with Tee Morris and doing so at DemiCon.  For all of the amazing people I have met in my writing and podcasting career, Tee was my first.  He was the first podcast novelist I listened to.  He was my first real colleague, and later my first real friend in this amazing community.  My first face to face meeting with Tee was picking him up at the Des Moines Airport ahead of Demicon 18. He was a guest of the convention, and staying at my place for the weekend.  I have fond memories sitting on my apartment balcony that weekend.  He had read the first three chapters of Cybrosis, and we were talking about how to make it better and how to turn it into something more than just a spare time hobby.

And Make it better I did… and Cybrosis became something more indeed.

On 01/01/10 Cybrosis began it’s journey when  I released the free weekly full cast  podcast.  Ten months later on 10/08/10, the podcast went live at Podiobooks.  Thanks to the toolkit available via the Amazon KDP and the Barnes and Noble PubIt! (now Nook Press) programs, Cybrosis saw an E-book publication on December 12, 2011.

But something was missing… until now.

I am extremely excited and happy to announce that Cybrosis: A Codename CIRIS Conspiracy is now available in print!

It has been a long time coming and I’m very happy to see it in paperback version.  It feels as though the novel has finally completed it’s journey and it seems only fitting that this book complete it’s journey in the same place, and among the same company where it truly got started.  I can not be happier with the final product.

As with all the previous versions, the front cover art comes from the amazing talents of JR Blackwell and Jared Axelrod.  However the print required some additional elements – The back cover, spine, interior layout, and E-book re-design were all performed by the very talented Tee Morris and Philippa Ballantine of the One Stop Writers Shop.

For those of you who have been around since the original Podcast, you may have noticed a change in both the cover art work and in my referencing this title  Specifically, I’ve added in the subtitle of “A Codename CIRIS Conspiracy.”  Welcome to the new branding for the series.

After working the first draft to the sequel of Cybrosis (more on that in a later post) and the related world building needs, I came to the new branding of “Codename Ciris”  As such, the E-books which have been been out for a few years now have been since updated with the new layout and design to coincide and unify with the print book copy.

Cybrosis: A Codename CIRIS Conspiracy is now available as a $11.99 paperback from .  The E-book remains available on , as well as from Barnes And Noble and is now available from Smashwords.  All of these E-formats are available for $2.99. The podcast also remains available at Podiobooks and all formats are published by Off The Deep End Multimedia LLC

I am very excited to hold a copy of this title in my hands and I hope you all are too.  Thank you all for your continued support both in enjoying this title for yourself and helping to spread the word.  Reviews are always welcome as they help provide visibility on the larger markets.  I’ll have more to discuss about the marketing and will be asking your help with that.  Don’t worry it won’t be too painful, I promise.

So that’s it for me for now.  I will have more coming in the coming days and weeks as more news comes down.

Until next time!