The Smashwords edition of “Ravensdaughter’s Tale” is complete and now up on the site. Even if you weren’t a backer of the Kickstarter campaign, now’s your chance to get a copy. It’s only 99 cents.
And check out the lovely cover art that Kelsey has made for it. She’s awesome.
First of all, the surviving lettuces on my balcony have set flower:
Secondly, my Kickstarter for “Ravensdaughter’s Tale” finished the other day, not only fully funded, but also having made its first reach goal of $300! This means that I’ll be able to post “Ravensdaughter’s Tale” up on Smashwords as well as a new edition of Grizelda. I’ll send links when there’s stuff to see.
Hi, all. Just thought you might like to know that I’m guest-posting over on The Mad Reviewer today on Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast books. Check it out!
I’ve got some exciting news.
A graduate student from Spain and I have been working together for a few months now – she’s been using the text of The Confederacy of Heaven to make a mock publicity campaign for her thesis project. Part of the project is to create a mock-up of a paper copy of the book. She just sent me photos.
Needless to say, I’m pleased as all getout with what she’s done here. And if you’re curious about the translation from Spanish, here’s a best effort:
Title: The Journey to Calgary
Text on the back: For two hundred years, the human race has been punished by the stars. Since then, it hasn’t rained a single time. The Earth is dying little by little, and the only one who can save the planet, Nasan of the Clan of the Rattling Bones, feels too lost to confront that task … alone.
(You can click on the pictures to see them bigger!)
We are go, I repeat, we are go for a bonus reward for the Ravensdaughter’s Tale campaign. I’ve talked to Kelsey King about the possibility of using the extra Kickstarter money to commission cover art for one of my novels, Grizelda. She sent me back some of her ideas here:
If the Kickstarter reaches $300 funding, I can commission Kelsey to make the cover art, and if that happens, all the backers will get a copy of the cover art along with their other rewards. There are fifteen days left in the campaign and we’re already more than halfway there, so things are looking good.
Wow, this is flabbergasting. The campaign is only about half over, but I had a couple of people make big backings yesterday that put us over the top.
(For those of you who came to this blog just now, I’m running a Kickstarter campaign to make cover art for one of my short stories.)
What does this mean? I can start aiming for one of the reach goals of the campaign. I’m going to go talk to the artist I’m working with about doing more stuff, probably cover art. If this project reaches one of its reach goals, everybody who backs it is going to get extra cool stuff. More news when it’s ready.
Hey, guys, I’m getting on the Kickstarter bandwagon.
For those of you who haven’t heard of it before, Kickstarter is this really cool website where people can post ideas for artistic projects. Other people on the Internet can help fund these projects so they can become a reality. Sometimes, so many people get together to back a project that a certain webcomic can raise over a million dollars.
I’m giving Kickstarter a go for one of my short stories. In a nutshell, I’ve found a great local artist to draw cover art for the story, and I’m raising funds to pay her commission. Her concept for the cover of Ravensdaughter’s Tale looks like this:
Check out my campaign, and then check out all the other cool projects on the site.
Hello, everybody, and happy new year!
It’s 2012. I’ve mentioned earlier that I was expecting Cannon Fodder, the book I’m working on right now, to come out in 2012. I’m writing this post to explain that it might take longer than that, but I have a very good reason: I’m going to try to sell this one.
For the past … oh … many years, I’ve been sort of learning to write and sharing it with people. If that short story about the mushroom alien was in sixth grade, that was 1999, so about thirteen years. I’ve learned a lot from the experience, and I think it’s time to give it a shot.
That sort of thing takes a lot of time, no matter whether I try for traditional publishing or go Amanda Hocking style. I’m going to run Cannon Fodder through critique group and get the thing seriously ironed out. Then I’m going to go through the process of pitch to an agent, pitch to another agent, agent pitches to an editor, editor asks me to make revisions, editor go talks to a typesetter, which can take a couple of years.
But never fear! There will still be regular updates on this blog, and I’ll let you know how it’s going. Until then, I hope you all have a great year 2012.
The inaugural issue of The Colored Lens is now online – and Ravensdaughter’s Tale is in there. You can get it as a Kindle download for a dollar.
Check it out here: http://thecoloredlens.com/.
I’m going to get published!
My short story, Ravensdaughter’s Tale, has been accepted for publication at The Colored Lens. Check them out! Their first issue is coming out this fall.