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Book Release & Conference Over

The First Stop from A Thousand Li has released today. I'm sure you've all read it, but it's out! WOOT!

Conference is done. Waiting at a coffee shop in Edinburgh right now. First chapter of Bo...

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Welcome new patrons

Hi guys;

Not much posting this month because I'm traveling. I do have some chapters written but not as much as I'd like and I'm working on getting the short story done. I love the idea, it's ...

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Writing Update

Alright, spent most of Sunday on a train. That - along with getting up at 4am-6am - means I got more writing done. I'm nearly finished with all the pre-written work, though I'm wondering if some of...

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Travelling with kids & work

Trying to get work done while travelling and not messing up the holiday. Of course, the entire holiday is like 2 months long (not fully a holiday since I've got like... 2 1/2 weeks of conventions a...

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Quick Updates

So, got back First Stop and book is now uploaded. Need the paperback cover before I can upload that, but once that's ready, I'll get it up.

Do people want the PDF or a mobi file for the final...

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Admin work, the anthology and slow-typing

This month is going to be an editing and admin month.

I'm currently editing issue of the System Apocalypse Comics comic script. Would 10+ patrons be interested in seeing the original scripts ...

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Spending time camping & reading

Spent most of this weekend camping and reading. Didn't do any writing but I did read 7 out of 9 entries which puts me nearly at the point where I'm ready to start making choices. Some good work the...

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Happy Canada Day!

Hope you all had fun. It's really smoky up here - not as bad as Vancouver was last year, but smoky nonetheless. Damn wildfires.

Spent the day at a knife making workshop (only handles), but it...

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The Three Adventurers (Children Short Story)

Because I've been telling these stories to my kid and he loves them. And I took forever to get a series of books out, I figured I'd write this on the back (in parts).

Heee.

Thinking I m...

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The First Stop Cover

Cover for the First Stop. Releasing August 1.

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New FB Group

As many of you know, I run the Cultivation Novel group. It's a generic group for letting anyone who likes cultivation / xanxia novels chat about them. It's not really meant to be my own personal FB...

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190624 Writing Update

Had a non-working weekend. 

Did some research reading, spent a few hours doing the edits for book 2 of the Thousand Li. And that was pretty much it. Once I finish the edits, I'm on to bo...

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System Apocalypse Short Story Anthology Character

Alright, I've got to add a short story for the anthology (assuming it happens). The plan is to write the short story during the writing workshop I'm going to in early August.

Let me know who ...

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Posting slowdown - Pain break

Hi guys;

Sorry. Going to be slow on doing posts. I promise to get the rest of the 6 chapters (13 total right now) that are done up soon.

But i got to take a few days off from doing stuf...

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Self-employment blues

Written about 500 words in the last 4 days. I took the weekend off entirely.  I was sick for most of that, not horribly, just enough of a cold / fever thing that my motivation to write died. S...

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Random Story Fragment - Prologue Isekai Superhero

So, I mentioned I did this when I had no access to the Internet and felt like writing something. It was tossed together and mostly written for fun. So... here's the prologue.

Prologue...

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Launch day nerves

I know a lot of authors get them. I... don't, or at least, not directly - inability to focus, nervousness, lack of sleep or appetite. None of that really affects me.  

In fact, I've spe...

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The goods & the bad

Yay! Stars Awoken released. 

That's the good.

The bad...

I accidentally worked on the wrong file for The First Stop. So now, I have to read the entire thing again - or at lea...

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Business Musings

So. I think I might have mentioned this before, but I went wide with 3 of my Adventures on Brad audiobooks. Doing that means I lose 15% of my royalty rates from ACX (i.e. sales on iTunes and Audibl...

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Patreon Benefits

I'm going to be adjusting the Patreon membership levels in a bit. 

While I want to keep the higher levels (even if there is no one on it), I might reduce the number a bit to only $20 and...

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Editing, editing, editing

So. I'm editing now. What does that  mean? It's worth noting that editing and the writing process is very different for everyone. I call my first, complete book my first draft. But, as some of...

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Patron Feedback

Alright. So you've read the comic & the books. 

Comments? Thoughts? 

How about the Patreon itself? Enjoying yourself and what not? For obvious reasons, there's going to be...

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Thousand Li Book 3 Prep

Just a hint of what might be coming...

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The System Apocalypse Comic #1

Here's the link to download it. It's in PDF form . Download and use as necessary.

As always. Don't share. This was an expensive process and it still isn't up on the most important site for c...

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Comic Cover

So. I had JC make the comic cover too and of them all, I think this is probably the most appropriate. Once I get the high res files, I'll be ready to publish the comic.

Hopefully this works...

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Thousand Li: First Stop Update

This is what I just typed:


THE END

Wu Ying will be back as the shadows of war loom in book three of A Thousand Li: The First War


Ju...

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The business of writing and choices

There's a term that some authors use to discuss what we do - indie publishing. They prefer the term from self-publishing because it better emphasizes what we actually have to do - all the various a...

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Audible Codes - Get them While they're Hot

So. I posted this on FB. I'm sure you are all on it. But if not. Audible is changing the way they are doing codes. So.

I have a BILLION UK codes and still a bunch of US codes.

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Comic Covers

So, this isn't the finished product. I wanted him to edit the tree because I wasn't happy with the way they looked. It's definitely post-apoc, but the work itself is... well, not what I expected. S...

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Short Story Anthology - thoughts and musings

So. If you haven't realised, I'm intending to launch a short story anthology (http://www.mylifemytao.com/652-2/).  View Post