Samie Foster's Blog - Posts Tagged "the-island"

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!

Hi there, everyone. I hope you been having a great week. I have been battling a summer cold, so I haven't been able to do much other than my day job. So there is little to update you on concerning upcoming projects. But because I'm sick, it doesn't mean I'm going to break my promises. I said by every Sunday, I will posted a chunk of audio story while simultaneously releasing the same portion on Wattpad and I am holding to that. So here are the links below.

First here is the link the Part 2 of The Island Audio Story
https://youtu.be/FAhi1n2MLJw

And now here it Part 2 of The Island on Wattpad
https://my.w.tt/P7RDm3Vm7O

Along with that, there is the weekly book review I post on Hubpages. This week its on Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets by J.K.Rowling.
https://hubpages.com/literature/Harry...

And if you like the free audio stuff, please support by buying the ebook version or making a small donation to Patreon at Project Stories.  The link is https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy what's here and I hope you all have a great week. I'll be back next weekend with more stuff.

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.

Hi there. This has been such a busy week. The only book related thing I did was jot down the beginnings to a possible story while waiting on a job interview. But beyond that, I've just been too busy for anything related to my stories. Good thing I decided to record the stories well ahead of time for the audio project. So this is what I got for you below. 

So here is Part 4 of the audio version of The Island, which is posted on Youtube @ https://youtu.be/ArcPdwJZvIU

And the same chunk is posted over on Wattpad @ https://my.w.tt/xih7hzHXuP

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 book review I posted or on Hubpages, so you can check that out too if your interested.

Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
https://hubpages.com/literature/Labyr...

And with all of that said, that is what I got. I'm sorry that there were no further updates. I really hope life will get a little less busy in the future, and I can start having free time again to do more work related to writing because I really do love it. Anyways, I hope you all have a great week!

Hi there. For the third week in a row, life has kept me quite busy. But I did do a little bit of recording last night for the audio projects in works. (The first time I really got to touch my projects in weeks) I got a little further into  recording the short story Late Shift at Pennies, and in recording Warped. Not a lot of work got done overall, but every little bit of progress counts. But I did post the weekly stuff.

So here is Part 5 of the audio version of The Island, which is posted on Youtube @ https://youtu.be/VlyEtZYXz8c

And the same chunk is posted over on Wattpad @ https://www.wattpad.com/610601836-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 book review I posted or on Hubpages, so you can check that out too if your interested.

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeere
https://hubpages.com/literature/Annih...

With that said, I hope you all have a  great week, and hopefully I will have more exciting stuff to post in the future.

Hey there everyone. The post this week is going to be short. I have nothing to really say about the updates for my current projects. Work has been slow and steady on those, so there isn't anything too exciting to share. But I am still on schedule posting The Island Audio Story and books reviews. So I'll post the stuff below so you can enjoy.

So here is Part 6 of the audio version of The Island, which is posted on Youtube @ https://youtu.be/OKmekEjGlCw

And the same chunk is posted over on Wattpad @ https://www.wattpad.com/626203795-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 that is all I have. And I am sorry for not having much. Usually around this time every year I have something such as a short novel or a couple of short stories to publish and share with the world.But because I decided this would be the year that I would start revising my old stuff to  make up for the mistakes I made in the past, progress on new projects moving forward is slow. Still I think the trade off in the end will be worth it. Anyways, I hope everyone is having a great labor day weekend in the U.S. and if you don't live in U.S, I hope you're having a fantastic weekend regardless!

Hi there everyone, I 'm trying my hardest to get into a weekly blogging. But two weeks in a row, my work schedule has been keeping me a little too busy. So I was so excited when it came to this week and I learned it was going to be thirty hour week. So I got started. balancing my work week to work on my projects. I got a bit farther in making audio versions of Warped and Late Shift at Penny's. And as for The Last Witch, I put a lot of work into that and realized I was almost done with edits. I couldn't believe I was really that close to a final product.  I felt so accomplished with what I did that at the end of that last night, I released a tweet announcing that the The Last Witch will be coming out early 2019, if not around Christmas.

Then the unthinkable happened. My computer would not turn on mid-week. I used every trick in the book and called Microsoft. At the end of  it all, I learned that the CPU has died and I had not backed up my work since the beginning of the year. I had to buy a new computer, and the tech guys up at the shop have my from the dead computer trying their best to retrieve my data. And from my understanding, they are having a lot of trouble. Last I heard, its 50/50 chance that I can get my stuff back.

And what stuff is that? That is all of the audio stories. The last two parts of The Island is stuck on that hard drive, as well as the audio version of Somewhere Beyond The Sea and Vanity. The Last Witch is trapped on the hard drive, along with a new horror story Wrong Turn at Albuquerque, and various  new shorts. All of which were in line for editing before any new big project. Also all my book reviews I post on my blogs, are on there as well. So its a bit of a mess, There is only one silver lining to this. The original copies of my work is handwritten in notebooks. And I believe I still have these handwritten copies somewhere but at the end of it all, I lost nearly a year's worth of work, and i am kicking myself for not backing my work up.

Anyways, I did not post in the last couple of weeks. And I did post the  parts 7 and 8 of the Island on Wattpad and Youtube. I will post the links down below.

Parts 7 and 8 of the Island is up on Wattpad at   https://my.w.tt/mtDNyscGnQ

Part 7 of the Audio story can be found @
https://youtu.be/kaLeBAuolOo

Part 8 of the Audio story can be found @
https://youtu.be/IR1sqdhUBCk

Sadly that is all the news I have. It isn't good. I don't know when the audio story project will continue, or what will happen next as everything is in limbo. If you have been enjoying the audio story project, I apologize if there is no ending to The Island a long time. Its just a big mess and everything is still in limbo. I really am hoping everything will end with a happy ending though.  Anyways, I thought I should send out this update, so people  will not wonder why everything suddenly stopped.

Anyways, I hope everyone has a good weekend. New updates will be posted sometime soon, whether its good or bad,

Hey everyone! I have fun update for today. Mainly, the penultimate episode in the audio version of The Island is up. So I hope you really enjoy that. The links are down below. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCJ-...

If you do enjoy, and want to support, please do. You can support by :

Purchasing the ebook @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VXB4MY

or

Making a donation @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921

And that is all I have to share this week. I hope to have more stuff to share soon. Have a great week everyone!

Hello there. I hope everyone is doing okay. I hope your safe and not are not melting from the heat wave. But once again there are some fun updates this week. There are two major things.

First of all, Lonesome Town has been revised and is now part of Kindle Unlimited program. So if you have a membership you can read it for free. In case you don't know what it is about I will post the synopsis down below.

When Kaylee dumped Jake she didn't know what he would do. She didn't know he would mope around in self pity and then take off to the mythical place called Lonesome Town, where broken hearts can be mended. But as Kaylee becomes increasingly worried about her friend she goes to find him. I her journey she learns Lonesome Town is a very sinister place that preys on its customers.

Check it out @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DHC789L

It's free with Kindle Unlimited and $1.00 for Purchase.

The second thing I have to share is the grand finale of the audio version of The Island is now posted. So check that out if your interested. The link will be down below.

https://youtu.be/ahkhMTxtfG4

And remember if you enjoy these audio stories, please help support. You can do so two ways.

You can purchase the ebook version for $1.00 @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VXB4MY

or

You can head to my patreon page and make a donation @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921


And that is what I have for this week. I hope to have more fun stuff to share soon. I hope everyone has a good week!

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!