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Audio Stories, Free Stories, and the Progress on The Last Witch
So it has been a while since I last posted. I think it was around the 4th of July when I gave my last set of updates. Right after that post I was pretty much slammed at work. Being a newbie fresh out of college geologist working at agricultural consulting company, I'm finding that summer months can be crazy busy sometimes. Sure I love the overtime, but for my hobby of writing, I'm just too busy to touch it sometimes. But now that things slowed down a little bit, I wanted to give you quite a few updates about what is going on.
First of all, for a while now, I have been talking about this crazy audio book project. I was really hesitant to do it before I started, and was a bit nervous while I was doing it because I knew it would eventually make its way to the internet, and I am far from some confident public speaker. But I have been determined because I know that reading things out loud is such a great way for me to revisit my older works and revise them. And finally I have the first story ready for posting. I am beginning with the Island, which is a longer scifi audio story. I am a posting ten minute part every Sunday starting today. There will be ten parts. A part will be posted each week on Sunday. I was learning and slowly gaining confidence as I was go, so I apologize for it being a bit rough.
The Island Synopsis:
In the middle of the second World War, scientists start vanishing all over the world. When Lily's husband is snatched away, she teams up with her brother in law to unravel what is happening to all the world's geniuses. After a year of traveling the world looking for clues, they are led to a mystery island in the eye of a never ending storm. A place that holds more danger than they ever expected
So here is the link to the video.
https://youtu.be/Fj3KqwmVSZg
And as promised, I am simultaneously releasing the same part for free over on Wattpad at
https://www.wattpad.com/610601836-the...
And for support for those who enjoy, I am asking for people to by the ebook versions
On Kindle for $.99 @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VXB4MY
On Smashwords for $.99 @ https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Or support me with a donations at my Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921
Speaking of audio stories, when I have forty minutes here and there I try to record a little bit. And I recently read through one of my first short stories, Vanity. Now that I have read through it and I have audio draft, I updated the new ebook draft to the storefronts. The new revised draft is essentially the same with the absence of a minor misspelling. But in celebration completing another audio story, I wanted to let this book be free on Smashwords this week. So I will placed the synopsis and coupon down below.
Vanity Synopsis:
Two siblings, Liz and Denny are on a long drive home from college. But when they take a short cut on the back roads through the woods, they have an unexpected accident. With the car damaged, they find themselves on foot walking through the woods. To their surprise, they stumble across a enormous mansion. A house that contains dark secrets that may kill them before the night is done.
Free Story Coupon Code SP56P
This can be used at the Vanity Store front page @ https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Beyond that I am am 20% through building an audio version and revised written version of one of my earliest written and hastily published scifi romps Warped. Also in between chapters (to break up the tedium) I am recording parts of my short story Late Shift at Pennies.
And what I have been calling High Fantasy Project X for the longest time I renamed The Last Witch. Its a bit cliche of a title but its fitting giving the subject matter. I officially have the last story, The Abyss, up on Scribophile for workshopping, and now that I reviewed all the stories, serious editing is taking place and the whole project just took a huge step toward becoming a finished product.
And then lastly I want to post my book review blogs for the last few weeks.
The Incredible Exploding Man by Dave Hutchinson
https://hubpages.com/literature/The-I...
The Aeronuat's Windlass by Jim Butcher
https://hubpages.com/literature/The-A...
The Things They Carried : A Dark Gritty Emotional Tale of War
https://hubpages.com/literature/The-T...
The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney
https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-...
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
https://owlcation.com/humanities/On-S...
Anyways that is every thing I have for you this week. It's a lot of stuff. I will be back next week with the new audio story segments. I hope everyone has a great week!
First of all, for a while now, I have been talking about this crazy audio book project. I was really hesitant to do it before I started, and was a bit nervous while I was doing it because I knew it would eventually make its way to the internet, and I am far from some confident public speaker. But I have been determined because I know that reading things out loud is such a great way for me to revisit my older works and revise them. And finally I have the first story ready for posting. I am beginning with the Island, which is a longer scifi audio story. I am a posting ten minute part every Sunday starting today. There will be ten parts. A part will be posted each week on Sunday. I was learning and slowly gaining confidence as I was go, so I apologize for it being a bit rough.
The Island Synopsis:
In the middle of the second World War, scientists start vanishing all over the world. When Lily's husband is snatched away, she teams up with her brother in law to unravel what is happening to all the world's geniuses. After a year of traveling the world looking for clues, they are led to a mystery island in the eye of a never ending storm. A place that holds more danger than they ever expected
So here is the link to the video.
https://youtu.be/Fj3KqwmVSZg
And as promised, I am simultaneously releasing the same part for free over on Wattpad at
https://www.wattpad.com/610601836-the...
And for support for those who enjoy, I am asking for people to by the ebook versions
On Kindle for $.99 @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VXB4MY
On Smashwords for $.99 @ https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Or support me with a donations at my Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921
Speaking of audio stories, when I have forty minutes here and there I try to record a little bit. And I recently read through one of my first short stories, Vanity. Now that I have read through it and I have audio draft, I updated the new ebook draft to the storefronts. The new revised draft is essentially the same with the absence of a minor misspelling. But in celebration completing another audio story, I wanted to let this book be free on Smashwords this week. So I will placed the synopsis and coupon down below.
Vanity Synopsis:
Two siblings, Liz and Denny are on a long drive home from college. But when they take a short cut on the back roads through the woods, they have an unexpected accident. With the car damaged, they find themselves on foot walking through the woods. To their surprise, they stumble across a enormous mansion. A house that contains dark secrets that may kill them before the night is done.
Free Story Coupon Code SP56P
This can be used at the Vanity Store front page @ https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Beyond that I am am 20% through building an audio version and revised written version of one of my earliest written and hastily published scifi romps Warped. Also in between chapters (to break up the tedium) I am recording parts of my short story Late Shift at Pennies.
And what I have been calling High Fantasy Project X for the longest time I renamed The Last Witch. Its a bit cliche of a title but its fitting giving the subject matter. I officially have the last story, The Abyss, up on Scribophile for workshopping, and now that I reviewed all the stories, serious editing is taking place and the whole project just took a huge step toward becoming a finished product.
And then lastly I want to post my book review blogs for the last few weeks.
The Incredible Exploding Man by Dave Hutchinson
https://hubpages.com/literature/The-I...
The Aeronuat's Windlass by Jim Butcher
https://hubpages.com/literature/The-A...
The Things They Carried : A Dark Gritty Emotional Tale of War
https://hubpages.com/literature/The-T...
The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney
https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-...
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
https://owlcation.com/humanities/On-S...
Anyways that is every thing I have for you this week. It's a lot of stuff. I will be back next week with the new audio story segments. I hope everyone has a great week!
Part 3 of The Island Audio Story is Now Available
Hey there everyone! I hope you all had a fantastic week and not boiling in this crazy heat wave on the west coast. Yikes! Its hot! But enough of that. This is yet another post about the audio project and updates. There's not a lot to update you on.
I didn't have much time this week, but I did have a couple windows here and there where I could continue my audio projects. I just started reading through the ghost story Late Shift at Pennies and I am about a third through Warped. And wow. Warped is interesting. I know it's one of the first things I ever published right after high school, but now reading through it ten years later, I'm not only finding it as great as I believed it was back then. It it is a bit dull compared to stuff I typically write now. When I started reading it out loud my goal strictly was to fix errors, improve flow, add minor details when needed, and deleting unneeded text. I did not and still do not want to change the essential story, because it is the product of an entirely different mindset back then than what I would have written today. If I were to start completely rewriting certain parts of it, I would be rewriting the whole darn thing and it would not be the same story at all. But I'm finding I am cutting a bit more out than I intended. Many are jokes or useless goofy characters that I must have thought was at the time I original wrote it, but I now find very pointless and immature. So I don't know what will become of Warped by the end. This B movie style dinosaur scifi story may end up being a short story by the end of the audio recording re-read, and I may have to re-release it as such. But again, that is what this who audio project is about. It isn't just about audio books. The audio books is a by product of the revision process. A year after college, I decided to really head back into all my book stuff, and found it was a little bit of a mess, and I am trying to make every thing better and the best they can be.
But right now what's being posted is Part 3 of the audio version of the Island, which is posted on Youtube @ https://youtu.be/eJJUbwJCpQc
And the same chunk is posted over on Wattpad @ https://www.wattpad.com/617148592-the...
And as always, if you enjoy this, please support by buying the ebook version or making a small patreon. The links are below.
On Kindle for $.99 @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VXB4MY
On Smashwords for $.99 @ https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Or support me with a donations at my Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921
And this weekend there was a short story review I posted or on Hubpages, so you can check that out too if your interested.
Harris Bergeron By Kurt Vorrengut
https://hubpages.com/literature/Harri...
And with all that said, I hope you enjoy what's here. And I will be back next Sunday for another post.
I didn't have much time this week, but I did have a couple windows here and there where I could continue my audio projects. I just started reading through the ghost story Late Shift at Pennies and I am about a third through Warped. And wow. Warped is interesting. I know it's one of the first things I ever published right after high school, but now reading through it ten years later, I'm not only finding it as great as I believed it was back then. It it is a bit dull compared to stuff I typically write now. When I started reading it out loud my goal strictly was to fix errors, improve flow, add minor details when needed, and deleting unneeded text. I did not and still do not want to change the essential story, because it is the product of an entirely different mindset back then than what I would have written today. If I were to start completely rewriting certain parts of it, I would be rewriting the whole darn thing and it would not be the same story at all. But I'm finding I am cutting a bit more out than I intended. Many are jokes or useless goofy characters that I must have thought was at the time I original wrote it, but I now find very pointless and immature. So I don't know what will become of Warped by the end. This B movie style dinosaur scifi story may end up being a short story by the end of the audio recording re-read, and I may have to re-release it as such. But again, that is what this who audio project is about. It isn't just about audio books. The audio books is a by product of the revision process. A year after college, I decided to really head back into all my book stuff, and found it was a little bit of a mess, and I am trying to make every thing better and the best they can be.
But right now what's being posted is Part 3 of the audio version of the Island, which is posted on Youtube @ https://youtu.be/eJJUbwJCpQc
And the same chunk is posted over on Wattpad @ https://www.wattpad.com/617148592-the...
And as always, if you enjoy this, please support by buying the ebook version or making a small patreon. The links are below.
On Kindle for $.99 @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VXB4MY
On Smashwords for $.99 @ https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Or support me with a donations at my Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921
And this weekend there was a short story review I posted or on Hubpages, so you can check that out too if your interested.
Harris Bergeron By Kurt Vorrengut
https://hubpages.com/literature/Harri...
And with all that said, I hope you enjoy what's here. And I will be back next Sunday for another post.
The Midnight Special: Bishop is on Kindle Unlimited & The Island is Free
Hey everyone! I have some news to share. In the last week, I got a few things accomplished.
First of all, The Midnight Special: Bishop has been revised and has been enrolled into Kindle Unlimited. So if you if you are a member, then you can read it for free. What is it about? I'll post the synopsis below:
"Life in a traveling side show can be complicated one. Especially when every member has some sort of supernatural baggage. At a stop in a North Dakota town, mind reader Bishop finds that death is near when a close one passes away. In a desperate attempt to live on, he ventures into a dangerous vampire bar for a cure."
This short is available in ebook @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C7YN9S6
Free on Kindle Unlimited and $.99 for Purchase.
Second, the audio story project is back in progress. I have found a new software that allows me to get the audio into MP4 again. And now it is picking up right where it left off a few weeks ago. You can listen to The Last Witch: The Broken Princess Part 4 @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGzHD....
And remember if you like these things, there are a few ways to support:
1) By making a small donation thru Patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921
2) By Purchasing the ebook version @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YK6CYGT
3) Or if you are a Unlimited Member, download the title and flip through the pages. There is pay for every page read according Amazon's algorithm and every little bit helps.
Then lastly, I'm deciding to continue the free book promotions. This week from June 9th to June 13th, the scifi story, The Island is going to be free. I will post the synopsis down below.
"In the middle of the second world war, scientists start vanishing all over the world. When Lily's husband is snatched away, she teams up with her brother in law to unravel what is happening to all the world's geniuses. After a year of traveling the world looking for clues, they are led to a mystery island in the eye of a never ending storm. A place that holds more danger than they ever expected."
From June 9th to June 13th this tale will be free @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VXB4MY
And that is all that I have for this week. I hope there is something you might enjoy here. And I hope to have more fun stuff to share in the next few weeks. Have a good week everyone!
First of all, The Midnight Special: Bishop has been revised and has been enrolled into Kindle Unlimited. So if you if you are a member, then you can read it for free. What is it about? I'll post the synopsis below:
"Life in a traveling side show can be complicated one. Especially when every member has some sort of supernatural baggage. At a stop in a North Dakota town, mind reader Bishop finds that death is near when a close one passes away. In a desperate attempt to live on, he ventures into a dangerous vampire bar for a cure."
This short is available in ebook @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C7YN9S6
Free on Kindle Unlimited and $.99 for Purchase.
Second, the audio story project is back in progress. I have found a new software that allows me to get the audio into MP4 again. And now it is picking up right where it left off a few weeks ago. You can listen to The Last Witch: The Broken Princess Part 4 @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGzHD....
And remember if you like these things, there are a few ways to support:
1) By making a small donation thru Patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921
2) By Purchasing the ebook version @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YK6CYGT
3) Or if you are a Unlimited Member, download the title and flip through the pages. There is pay for every page read according Amazon's algorithm and every little bit helps.
Then lastly, I'm deciding to continue the free book promotions. This week from June 9th to June 13th, the scifi story, The Island is going to be free. I will post the synopsis down below.
"In the middle of the second world war, scientists start vanishing all over the world. When Lily's husband is snatched away, she teams up with her brother in law to unravel what is happening to all the world's geniuses. After a year of traveling the world looking for clues, they are led to a mystery island in the eye of a never ending storm. A place that holds more danger than they ever expected."
From June 9th to June 13th this tale will be free @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VXB4MY
And that is all that I have for this week. I hope there is something you might enjoy here. And I hope to have more fun stuff to share in the next few weeks. Have a good week everyone!
