Mark Henwick's Blog - Posts Tagged "serial"
Long Island Athanate and update
Vampires of the Caribbean
Released this week and made #1 on UF anthologies! Thank you!
Angel Stakes audiobook
*Still* one file needs fixing. Technical difficulties at studio. I’ll keep posting as it inches towards release.
Main books
Bian’s Tale, book 1 & Bite Back 6 progressing slowly. This was always going to be a disprupted week with the release of Iron Fist, featuring my daughter as Colleen Wing. :-)
Long Island Athanate
I started this as a little stand-alone Christmas present on the blog site to my readers, and have been persuaded to keep adding episodes to it. Now it's going to be a novella, but you can read it for free on the blog site. It's set in the Athanate world, but features only Skylur from the usual cast. It occurs immediately after Angel Stakes, and is set in New York.
If you've been reading this as it came out, here is the link for the latest chapters:
https://henwick.wordpress.com/2017/03...
If you haven't seen any of this story before, or you've missed a couple of episodes:
In the comments at the bottom of the latest post, I've put in a link so you can get all the first 13 chapters in a Word document.
Enjoy!
Released this week and made #1 on UF anthologies! Thank you!
Angel Stakes audiobook
*Still* one file needs fixing. Technical difficulties at studio. I’ll keep posting as it inches towards release.
Main books
Bian’s Tale, book 1 & Bite Back 6 progressing slowly. This was always going to be a disprupted week with the release of Iron Fist, featuring my daughter as Colleen Wing. :-)
Long Island Athanate
I started this as a little stand-alone Christmas present on the blog site to my readers, and have been persuaded to keep adding episodes to it. Now it's going to be a novella, but you can read it for free on the blog site. It's set in the Athanate world, but features only Skylur from the usual cast. It occurs immediately after Angel Stakes, and is set in New York.
If you've been reading this as it came out, here is the link for the latest chapters:
https://henwick.wordpress.com/2017/03...
If you haven't seen any of this story before, or you've missed a couple of episodes:
In the comments at the bottom of the latest post, I've put in a link so you can get all the first 13 chapters in a Word document.
Enjoy!
Serials
Having experimented with writing a short story in episodes on the blog, I'm now working on a full serialised novel.
This is done, in its entirety, at weekends, and there should be updates every weekend. It does not affect the schedule on my main novels.
I've chosen to write in a different genre, so this is Sci Fi Romance, and the name is probably going to be "A Name Among The Stars".
I work hard to leave each week's episode on a cliffhanger, which gets me a fair amount of 'hate' mail, as shown below. :-)
"Wow! What a place to stop!!! I want more!"
"The story is fantastic and I want MORE! Your cliffhangers are becoming more and more diabolical."
"Way to keep the cliffhangers coming. I hate you. (Not really)."
Take a peek. First two episodes together:
https://henwick.wordpress.com/2017/05...
And the third:
https://henwick.wordpress.com/2017/06...
This is done, in its entirety, at weekends, and there should be updates every weekend. It does not affect the schedule on my main novels.
I've chosen to write in a different genre, so this is Sci Fi Romance, and the name is probably going to be "A Name Among The Stars".
I work hard to leave each week's episode on a cliffhanger, which gets me a fair amount of 'hate' mail, as shown below. :-)
"Wow! What a place to stop!!! I want more!"
"The story is fantastic and I want MORE! Your cliffhangers are becoming more and more diabolical."
"Way to keep the cliffhangers coming. I hate you. (Not really)."
Take a peek. First two episodes together:
https://henwick.wordpress.com/2017/05...
And the third:
https://henwick.wordpress.com/2017/06...
Bian's Tale book 1 on the blog
Another 'serial' on the blog.
The last couple of experiments with writing serials on my blog were well received. The results are now available on Amazon:
Urban Fantasy Athanate novella (25k words) : Change of Regime
https://www.amazon.com/Change-Regime-...
SciFi Adventure/Romance novel (107k words) : A Name Among The Stars
https://www.amazon.com/Name-Among-Sta...
Both of these came about as experimental writing for the blog, and as such, I tended to end episodes on a cliffhanger, to encourage people to return the following week. This worked well! I've had to take the episodes off the blog to avoid falling foul of Amazon's rules, but I left the comments up, as they're fun to read. :-)
There have been calls for another serial, but I'm not quite ready. What I'm doing instead is releasing my current work-in-progress in 'episodes'. This novel has not been written for serialisation and so does not end every episode on a cliffhanger (though there are some). I'm releasing a couple of episodes every week at the moment and I'm hoping the episodes won't quite catch up with the final book being ready for publication.
The novel is called Saigon: The Reach of Lies. It's book 1 in Bian's Tale. Those of you already reading my Bite Back series will need no introduction to Bian. For others, this follows a young Vietnamese girl, Bian, from her early life in 1890 Saigon to her role as Diakon (second in command) of the leading Athanate House, Altau, in Denver, Colorado. (You call them vampires, they call themselves Athanate, and they're not at all what the legends suggest).
Bian's Tale is Dark Urban Fantasy, with historical beginnings, in the detailed Bite Back world. Here's a link to the first episode on the blog (others available through the 'next' button at the bottom of each post):
http://henwick.wordpress.com/2017/11/...
The last couple of experiments with writing serials on my blog were well received. The results are now available on Amazon:
Urban Fantasy Athanate novella (25k words) : Change of Regime
https://www.amazon.com/Change-Regime-...
SciFi Adventure/Romance novel (107k words) : A Name Among The Stars
https://www.amazon.com/Name-Among-Sta...
Both of these came about as experimental writing for the blog, and as such, I tended to end episodes on a cliffhanger, to encourage people to return the following week. This worked well! I've had to take the episodes off the blog to avoid falling foul of Amazon's rules, but I left the comments up, as they're fun to read. :-)
There have been calls for another serial, but I'm not quite ready. What I'm doing instead is releasing my current work-in-progress in 'episodes'. This novel has not been written for serialisation and so does not end every episode on a cliffhanger (though there are some). I'm releasing a couple of episodes every week at the moment and I'm hoping the episodes won't quite catch up with the final book being ready for publication.
The novel is called Saigon: The Reach of Lies. It's book 1 in Bian's Tale. Those of you already reading my Bite Back series will need no introduction to Bian. For others, this follows a young Vietnamese girl, Bian, from her early life in 1890 Saigon to her role as Diakon (second in command) of the leading Athanate House, Altau, in Denver, Colorado. (You call them vampires, they call themselves Athanate, and they're not at all what the legends suggest).
Bian's Tale is Dark Urban Fantasy, with historical beginnings, in the detailed Bite Back world. Here's a link to the first episode on the blog (others available through the 'next' button at the bottom of each post):
http://henwick.wordpress.com/2017/11/...
