He came home from school commenting he needed to push a 1,000 words today to stay on track. However, with the time zones and school and stuff, I think he did his homework and crashed. Since he got up his blog website yesterday and put out his first snippet, I guess I can’t complain too much.
But you just KNOW I’ll be laughing at him tomorrow. (I mean, c’mon… He’s 17, I’m almost 50… He has the energy of a pack of kittens and I’m lucky to be able to climb up a flight of stairs…totally different.)
So, enough of that malcontent! :-)
You will notice I didn’t provide his name, nor a link to his book. I’ve helped that kid enough in the last couple of days and so has TS Paul…He needs to dig a little deeper and not fall asleep… Hmmmm…
(The Author is looking over his shoulder upstairs wondering if ‘that kid’ is awake or asleep… Oh… Shit, he’s awake.)
Well… crap. Now that he has come downstairs and confirmed he was awake, so much for my bashing him the last couple of paragraphs. Oh well, it’s good copy, no use wasting it.
Bwuhahahahaha.
So, since I can’t talk about him anymore, let me talk about THIS book! I had to laugh out loud when Paul mentioned the comment: “I lost November somewhere and can’t find it” in his Author Notes.
First, because that is just funny as hell. Second, (I pinged Paul — who lives in Australia — and he told me he was going through a bout of insomnia when he wrote that last line) I remember November for him. He was having a tough time all around.
Life was using him as the poster-child for ‘I’m not fair, suck it up, Buttercup!’
Then December hit, and all of my collaborators (Justin Sloan, Craig Martelle, Natalie Grey, TS Paul and Paul C. Middleton) all got their books dropping like grades of seniors suffering from senioritis. (I’ve got two seniors myself right now — the aforementioned author son and his older twin brother at home still.)
Life quit being easy-breasy street and turned into…
WHATTHEFUCKWASITHINKING BLVD.
DAAAAMN, I have been in some state of writing, editing, talking, art, covers for what seems like forever, and I don’t think it’s going to let up for a couple of months. It’s ok, as far as this stuff being work, it can be some of the best work I’ve ever been blessed to do, but me thinks I was just a wee bit cocky on how easy I thought it would be to accomplish.
However, with you fans being so damned fantastic, you are changing additional Indie Author’s lives and careers and it makes this so totally worthwhile.
How?
Because you are trying the spin-off’s, liking them, and often many of you are going to go check out the collaborators backlists which is one of the main reasons the author’s are asking to do this with me.
Now, I love hacking the system, and I have to tell you without the new collaborations I would have REALLY had a crushing author ranking in December.
Not a crushing in a good way, but crushing in a bad way.
I didn’t know it last year (too prawny — meaning too small) to know it, but December is a HUGE month for Traditional Publishers to push their big authors like crazy. That pushes a lot of us Indie’s down the ranking list even if we have been making good money. Of course, a lot of the reading money is gone just like the reading time is gone during December.
Cause… Presents! (Asking about them, finding them, buying them, wrapping them, shipping them… you get the idea.)
So, I was going UP in daily sales due to the collaborations, but going DOWN in the rankings causing me to scratch my (thankfully) full-head-of-hair head in confusion.
Once I looked to see which authors were kicking me down, I became less clueless.
Damn, I just realized I still haven’t talked that much about… this book! So, enough about that.
Let’s talk some more about Paul.
There have been a few rather loud fans asking Paul (since… uh… October?) when this book was coming and he was thinking soon… Until November used his ass for a punching bag. Then mid-December… Christmas… New Year… NOW!
I’m happy to say, my very first collaborator Paul C. Middleton has done a great job and we rarely disagreed on stuff for this book.
Except the Akio comment. Akio was replaced by Barnabas who made so much more sense (thanks D’s!)
Sometime, I’ll have to record a conversation between Paul and myself talking story, because… why not? Who doesn’t want an American and an Australian talking Russian Politics and how that would affect a fictional WereBear named Boris and the Queen Bitch?
That would be good TV right there, yes… I think it would ;-)
Peace to All, and may 2017 provide for a better, more fantastical year for each of you!
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Other Books by the Authors
Series Titles Include:
TBC 01 — Evacuation
TBC 02 — Retaliation
TBC 03 — Revelations
TBC 04 — Restitution 2017
(A side story happening during Books 10-21 of The Kurtherian Gambit Series)
Paladin Book 01
A-Viking Book 02
Myrmidon Book 03 (2017)
A Mongrel’s Curse Book 01
Mongrel’s Tooth and Consequences Book 02
Mongrelverse Tales #1 — Mother of Monsters
The Expanding Universe — An Exploration of the Science Fiction Genre (Science Fiction Anthology Book 1)
Inanna’s Circle: Flight of Imagination — Transformation (Inanna’s Circle Game Book 4)
Inanna’s Circle: Flight of Imagination — Omnibus
Kurtherian Gambit Series Titles Include:
Death Becomes Her (01) — Queen Bitch (02) — Love Lost (03) — Bite This (04)
Never Forsaken (05) — Under My Heel (06) Kneel Or Die (07)
We Will Build (08) — It’s Hell To Choose (09) — Release The Dogs of War (10)
Sued For Peace (11) — We Have Contact (12) — My Ride is a Bitch (13)
Don’t Cross This Line (14)
Never Submit (15) — Never Surrender (16) — Forever Defend (17)
Might Makes Right (18) — Ahead Full (19) — Capture Death (20)
Life Goes On (21)
The Dark Messiah (01)