Ramblings of an old man with pretentions of authordom
99 cents on Amazon. It’s only about 1,100 words, so don’t complain about the length, please. If it doesn’t sell, I’ll do what I planned to do in the first place and publish it here for free. The problem with Amazon is, 99 cents is the least they’ll allow you to charge. Pisses me off.
Not available for KU because I’d only make about a penny a read.
Not connected with either of my existing series. Just a story.
I just pushed the button on a new short story/novella and it’s available on Amazon now. Started writing it on November 30, finished it December 15, edited and proofread it today and put it up.
Starting tomorrow, Tuesday, 6/22, and running through Saturday, 6/26, my two fantasy shorts will be available to download from Amazon for free (not KU, this is a free FREE free book promo).
I do have a third one of these Seasons stories in the works, but it’s going slowly, due to other engagements and the third Timelines novel taking precedence.
Enjoy!
Two requests:
I’m sitting here right now working on the sequel to The Lion of God, so that will be along at some point. I was hoping around Christmas, but the general craziness around here has been such that it probably won’t be till after New Year’s. Which may be good, because the faster we get out of this fucked-up year, the better…
The sequel to Saving The Spring:
Direct link to A Midsummer Night’s Hunt
and a prequel to The Lion of God:
If you notice in your Kindle content management page that there is an update to Saving the Spring, it’s only an update to place the story into the Seasons series as #1. I had no plans to make a series out of my fantasy short story, so it wasn’t originally published that way. It hasn’t yet updated as of 9PM tonight, so it will probably be a day or two before that happens. Literally the only changes made were to add “Seasons #1” to the cover and the title page, and add a couple of notes to the copyright page. No change was made to the text of the story. [Update, next day: Apparently I did not make enough changes to warrant Amazon putting up an “Update Available” link in the content manager, so there you have it.]
This is, of course, preparatory to the release of the second story, A Midsummer Night’s Hunt, “soon”. I’m aiming for the end of September. If I can just get the last scene written, that will happen. It’s that close. The last time I wrote about it, the story was 8,475 words long. It’s now nearly twice that, 16,273 words and probably about a thousand words to go. There are also several color illustrations (!) which even look good on a greyscale 10th gen. Kindle Oasis. In fact, if I can get Joelle’s dForce-enabled dress to stop exploding when I simulate it in DAZ3D, I might have another one done here shortly.
If you liked Saving the Spring, you will find A Midsummer Night’s Hunt a little different; third person rather than Jack doing the narrative, all four of the Asgardians more involved in the story, a couple more fight scenes, and chupacabra. So far Odin hasn’t made an appearance, but Hugin and Munin have, and Geri and Freki may make a cameo near the end since Sarah likes them so much. (For her, they’re like the pet dogs she never had.) Oh…do I have a picture of that? Sure I do.
Woof!
(Where’s the scythe? That gets discussed.)
Anyway, I hope you like the story when it’s done. It’ll still be 99 cents to buy or free to read on Kindle Unlimited.
Only $0.99 to buy, or read with Kindle Unlimited.