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A New Alice Story, Siren On Berry Ave Status, & Other Updates
Hello everyone. I hope you have all been well. I know it has been a few weeks since my previous blog, and there’s a good reason for that. Because the summer of weekly giveaways is over, I didn’t want to blog again until I had more to actually share. So now that I actually have some updates to share, I wanted to blog.
First off, I think the summer of free e story giveaways went okay. Seventy something people took advantage of the free short stories. And a couple people have actually left good reviews recently, and hopefully more will trickle in over time. So time will tell if it will boost my Goodreads and Amazon rating or not. But I’m glad that at least I know a couple people are enjoying my work.
Beyond that I have finally settled on a short to go through editing process and eventually to Kindle. It is another Alice story. It’s yet another tale of an Alice set in a dark Wonderland. This Alice is Alice Rosa. She’s a Brazilian Alice who fell into the world of Hatters and madness. It follows her as she tries to escort a prince away from the City of Clubs, while trying to keep her madness in check. It’s just been uploaded to Scribophile to see what Beta readers think of it. This one is a little more experimental as the lead suffers from mental illness, and I am curious what people will think. Hopefully the reactions will be good and the editing process will be short and will be on Kindle in some timely manner.
Then, the project, The Siren on Berry Ave is a work in process and I think I may have figured out how to tackle the project. The first story is up on Scribophile with very good reviews.
But I enjoyed the characters and the world so much that I wanted to do a lot more with it. I wanted to make a collection of stories with an overall arch like I did with The Last Witch, and then release them all at once. But after a couple months it’s not working. Where with The Last Witch, I wrote all the stories back to back in a number of months with a strong vision of what each one should be and how it should all end, that is not the case for Siren on Berry Ave. In fact I feel like I am forcing these stories to happen to meet a desired ending, instead of writing individual tales that would be fun on their own.
So I am going to change my plan. I am not going to wait months or years for the right ideas to come to me for a collection with an appropriate underlying story. Instead, I am going to take my time and release them one at a time and hope readers will one day want to follow these shorts as they are written opposed to the all at once approach I wanted to do originally. Right now I have three sequel stories written. Two are not on par with original tale, but the third is good enough. That tale is called The Scarabs from Tullah. So right now, since the reviews are so good on
The Siren on Berry Ave, I hope to finish editing that in the near future. And The Scarabs from Tullah will be typed off out of the notebook it currently sits in and will be uploaded to Scribophile for Beta readers to review as well. That is the status of the whole project right now. I should have just published the original story months ago, but I over complicated things thinking I could make it part of something grander and now here I am again at square one. I apologize more that.
Also there’s some news about Palm’s Inn. I am currently revising the book. Seeing how I self-published it so young, I wanted to really go through it and clean it up. And I am about a third through it now. Every Sunday I am updating the draft on KDP with the revisions finished up until that point. And so far, aside from some small typos and awkward sentence structures it really wasn’t as rough of a draft as I was expecting. So it’s not as daunting as I would have suspected. Hopefully that will be completely revised in the near future.
And that is all I have to share this week. Hopefully some I’ll have new stuff in the future. But that is in works right now. I hope you all have a good week, and I will be blogging again when I have more to share.
First off, I think the summer of free e story giveaways went okay. Seventy something people took advantage of the free short stories. And a couple people have actually left good reviews recently, and hopefully more will trickle in over time. So time will tell if it will boost my Goodreads and Amazon rating or not. But I’m glad that at least I know a couple people are enjoying my work.
Beyond that I have finally settled on a short to go through editing process and eventually to Kindle. It is another Alice story. It’s yet another tale of an Alice set in a dark Wonderland. This Alice is Alice Rosa. She’s a Brazilian Alice who fell into the world of Hatters and madness. It follows her as she tries to escort a prince away from the City of Clubs, while trying to keep her madness in check. It’s just been uploaded to Scribophile to see what Beta readers think of it. This one is a little more experimental as the lead suffers from mental illness, and I am curious what people will think. Hopefully the reactions will be good and the editing process will be short and will be on Kindle in some timely manner.
Then, the project, The Siren on Berry Ave is a work in process and I think I may have figured out how to tackle the project. The first story is up on Scribophile with very good reviews.
But I enjoyed the characters and the world so much that I wanted to do a lot more with it. I wanted to make a collection of stories with an overall arch like I did with The Last Witch, and then release them all at once. But after a couple months it’s not working. Where with The Last Witch, I wrote all the stories back to back in a number of months with a strong vision of what each one should be and how it should all end, that is not the case for Siren on Berry Ave. In fact I feel like I am forcing these stories to happen to meet a desired ending, instead of writing individual tales that would be fun on their own.
So I am going to change my plan. I am not going to wait months or years for the right ideas to come to me for a collection with an appropriate underlying story. Instead, I am going to take my time and release them one at a time and hope readers will one day want to follow these shorts as they are written opposed to the all at once approach I wanted to do originally. Right now I have three sequel stories written. Two are not on par with original tale, but the third is good enough. That tale is called The Scarabs from Tullah. So right now, since the reviews are so good on
The Siren on Berry Ave, I hope to finish editing that in the near future. And The Scarabs from Tullah will be typed off out of the notebook it currently sits in and will be uploaded to Scribophile for Beta readers to review as well. That is the status of the whole project right now. I should have just published the original story months ago, but I over complicated things thinking I could make it part of something grander and now here I am again at square one. I apologize more that.
Also there’s some news about Palm’s Inn. I am currently revising the book. Seeing how I self-published it so young, I wanted to really go through it and clean it up. And I am about a third through it now. Every Sunday I am updating the draft on KDP with the revisions finished up until that point. And so far, aside from some small typos and awkward sentence structures it really wasn’t as rough of a draft as I was expecting. So it’s not as daunting as I would have suspected. Hopefully that will be completely revised in the near future.
And that is all I have to share this week. Hopefully some I’ll have new stuff in the future. But that is in works right now. I hope you all have a good week, and I will be blogging again when I have more to share.
Siren on Berry Avenue is Out & Free For The First Five Days
Hello there. I hope you all doing well. I wanted to post a blog to share some fun news today. What is it? The Siren on Berry Avenue is finally out. The short story is released as an ebook and is currently enrolled in Kindle Unlimited. And this week, for the first few days it will be FREE! I will post the synopsis and other information down below.
Half-bood. It’s a term for those not quite human. Off spring of monsters and humans. It is an issue that the United States has not known how to deal with. The solution for the longest time was to lock them away from the public. But when a new law is passed to make them citizens, and they are released into the world.
One of these half-bloods is Cyan. A teenage girl with a Siren blood flowing through her veins. With her mom long gone, her step father takes her in and, for the first time, enters the real world. But it’s not an easy one for a half-blood. In a world that hates monsters, it’s hard to find her place in it. And as she tries to find her way, she knows the monstrous half of her family is out there. And she fears he may come for her.
This short story ebook is going to be FREE from April 7th to April 11th. You can grab your free copy at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X4STDYY.
That is what got to share. If this story sounds like your sort a thing, grab a free copy and give it read. And with that said, I hope you have a great week.
Half-bood. It’s a term for those not quite human. Off spring of monsters and humans. It is an issue that the United States has not known how to deal with. The solution for the longest time was to lock them away from the public. But when a new law is passed to make them citizens, and they are released into the world.
One of these half-bloods is Cyan. A teenage girl with a Siren blood flowing through her veins. With her mom long gone, her step father takes her in and, for the first time, enters the real world. But it’s not an easy one for a half-blood. In a world that hates monsters, it’s hard to find her place in it. And as she tries to find her way, she knows the monstrous half of her family is out there. And she fears he may come for her.
This short story ebook is going to be FREE from April 7th to April 11th. You can grab your free copy at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X4STDYY.
That is what got to share. If this story sounds like your sort a thing, grab a free copy and give it read. And with that said, I hope you have a great week.
Once Upon a Time in Boston is the Next Indie April Giveaway…...Also The Giveaway Last Week Went Very Well.
Hello everyone! I’m back with another blog all about my writings and fun stuff like giveaways. So what’s been going on since the last blog, which was a week ago? And the answer is not a lot.
I actually had an awful virus over the past week. So I couldn’t do much of anything. But in my windows of feeling not quite so dead, I did dust off an old notebook and started writing a story. It has a young woman who inherits an estate from billionaire grandfather she never knew she had, a djinn, and it might be a murder mystery of some sort. It is a fun project so far. I hoping it will turn out to be something nice that I can publish and share with all of you in the future.
And then there is another thing that happened. This last week was the first Indie April give away. I gave away the kindle version of Rainy Day Hotel. And for this giveaway I used the powers of Twitter, Threads, Goodreads, and Substack combined to push this. And despite the terrible launch of this book, it did pretty well. For the first time, one of my works landed on an Amazon top ten list. It ranked number 7 in pulp thrillers, and that is amazing for me. None of my stuff ever ranked that high on Amazon. I also got a four-star review, which I am happy with. And I hope there are more positive reviews to come. Did I giveaway hundreds? No. But a modest number of people now have or will at some point read the story. And I call that a success. It went very well.
But what is next? Well this week, it the giveaway switching from scifi horror, to horror dark fantasy, featuring the walking dead, monstrous birds being worshipped as angels, an eternal winter, and teen who’s trying to set the world right again It’s called Once Upon a Time in Boston, and it will be free from April 10th to April 14th.
The world broke decades ago. An eternal winter has engulfed the Earth. The dead no longer pass on, becoming souls trapped in decaying bodies. Humanoid feathered creatures known as Ravens come to collect the souls to escort them to the mysterious council to move on to the afterlife. Many people have come to believe the Ravens are angels; doing God’s work until the cosmos are fixed.
Tai is a teenager who learns this is a lie. The Ravens are doing something nefarious with the souls, and those who die are not moving on after death. Angry and frustrated with the recent loss of a loved one, Tai does something rash. He decides he will try to stop the Ravens. He will try to fix the world and overthrow this mysterious council. But he’s not doing it alone. He has found the aid of a Raven who holds a grudge against the council as well.
Grab free ebook copy @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09947RR69
And that’s all I really got for this week. Just another giveaway. Will this go as well as Rainy Day Hotel? Will another one of my novellas end up on a top ten list again? Who knows? Let’s just see what happens. I will be blogging again soon.
P.S. Thank you to any all of you who gave my work a chance last week. You have no idea how much I really do appreciate it!
I actually had an awful virus over the past week. So I couldn’t do much of anything. But in my windows of feeling not quite so dead, I did dust off an old notebook and started writing a story. It has a young woman who inherits an estate from billionaire grandfather she never knew she had, a djinn, and it might be a murder mystery of some sort. It is a fun project so far. I hoping it will turn out to be something nice that I can publish and share with all of you in the future.
And then there is another thing that happened. This last week was the first Indie April give away. I gave away the kindle version of Rainy Day Hotel. And for this giveaway I used the powers of Twitter, Threads, Goodreads, and Substack combined to push this. And despite the terrible launch of this book, it did pretty well. For the first time, one of my works landed on an Amazon top ten list. It ranked number 7 in pulp thrillers, and that is amazing for me. None of my stuff ever ranked that high on Amazon. I also got a four-star review, which I am happy with. And I hope there are more positive reviews to come. Did I giveaway hundreds? No. But a modest number of people now have or will at some point read the story. And I call that a success. It went very well.
But what is next? Well this week, it the giveaway switching from scifi horror, to horror dark fantasy, featuring the walking dead, monstrous birds being worshipped as angels, an eternal winter, and teen who’s trying to set the world right again It’s called Once Upon a Time in Boston, and it will be free from April 10th to April 14th.
The world broke decades ago. An eternal winter has engulfed the Earth. The dead no longer pass on, becoming souls trapped in decaying bodies. Humanoid feathered creatures known as Ravens come to collect the souls to escort them to the mysterious council to move on to the afterlife. Many people have come to believe the Ravens are angels; doing God’s work until the cosmos are fixed.
Tai is a teenager who learns this is a lie. The Ravens are doing something nefarious with the souls, and those who die are not moving on after death. Angry and frustrated with the recent loss of a loved one, Tai does something rash. He decides he will try to stop the Ravens. He will try to fix the world and overthrow this mysterious council. But he’s not doing it alone. He has found the aid of a Raven who holds a grudge against the council as well.
Grab free ebook copy @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09947RR69
And that’s all I really got for this week. Just another giveaway. Will this go as well as Rainy Day Hotel? Will another one of my novellas end up on a top ten list again? Who knows? Let’s just see what happens. I will be blogging again soon.
P.S. Thank you to any all of you who gave my work a chance last week. You have no idea how much I really do appreciate it!
