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It's been a bit of a journey, but Bound is ready to be read.
Get it here: http://amzn.to/1iuM9KO
Thank you all for your continued support.
Balance: 10,000 Sales Celebration!
I did a Kindle Countdown deal in December, offering Balance for $0.99 for a week. The results of that offer were UNBELIEVABLE, pushing Balance to a high of #253 in the Amazon store, and #5 overall in Paranormal / Urban Fantasy and #7 overall in Epic Fantasy. All told, I sold over 3000 copies of Balance in December (and ~7500 books total), pushing it's sales count well past 10,000 copies, to ~11,600. As I had mentioned previously, I'm celebrating the achievement by giving away money, in the form of Amazon gift cards.
You need to do two things to enter:
1. Have found this link - congratulations, you've already done this! 2. Click the 'enter' button.
Oh, and if you aren't already on my mailing list - I recommend signing up. There will be more giveaways in the future, and I know you don't want to miss the chance to win stuff (and maybe learn about my new realeases?). Just click the 'mailing list' link in the menu, and put in your e-mail address. I promise not to spam.
Good luck!
UPDATE: The winners have been notified! Congratulations to Christopher, Yannick, and Caleb. Thanks to everyone who participated.
When are 40,000 words NOT 40,000 words
I was all set to announce that I had reached the 40k word milestone on book four of the Divine Series, Bound. I was pleased with myself for reaching the ALMOST halfway point in the novel.
Then I went back and read some of it.
It wasn't that it was bad, per se. If I gave it out to some of you, you probably would have told me I was an idiot for thinking it needed to go. Except... it was the story I was telling, but not the story I wanted to tell. It felt repetitive, vanilla, and most importantly - it didn't excite me. If I couldn't enjoy writing it, how could you enjoy reading it? Again, maybe you could have. Or maybe you would have felt the same ambivalence I was feeling. Who wants to read a book like that?
I've written three books in the Divine series, and one other besides. I always end up cutting pages, adding pages, etc. I re-wrote an entire chapter in Betrayal, and I rewrote another chapter in Broken four times (I really struggled with that one).
This was the first time I changed direction... completely, and in doing so had to drop nearly 15,000 words. That's two-three weeks of work, and almost half of the total.
Gone. Dead. Buried.
It's hard to massacre your work like that. Yet sometimes it needs to be done. Will it lead to a better book? I sure hope so. I'm certainly enjoying writing it more, so that has to count for something.
The point is, it isn't about the word counts or the release schedule. It's about producing something that you're proud of, and putting every ounce of effort into reaching the level of quality you feel the reader deserves.
Even if it hurts.
Betrayal - The Divine Series Book Two - Now Available!
It's time! Get it here. Book Two was released early yesterday morning, and has already garnered a 5-star review:
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A Great Addition To The Series June 2, 2013
By Andrew
Format:Kindle Edition
This book was pretty awesome, while it was a little short, it resolved several of the cliffhangers from the previous books. It lets us learn more about the characters from book 1 and their past while also providing a great plot. Hope the next book comes out soon!
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Thanks to my wife for working tirelessly to help me edit, revise, and get this thing ready well ahead of my initial schedule. Like most things, I couldn't have done it without her!