Amazon offers this service (I'm an idiot, I just discovered it), and I'll be reformatting Villain and Wayward to publish in an actual paper copy.
I know were moving away from it, but some folks like it, so why not?
I don't know how the price points are, but like Villain's Kindle edition, I'll put it as cheaply as possible, with just a buck or two coming my way.
First I'm finishing the Wayward edits, though!
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Done with the edit!
DONE! I'm finished with the edit. All done, except for two problems I need to fix that make no sense. One is 13 pages, the other is 9. So done for all intents and purposes.
My content editor, Josh Hoade, is through the first act and working on the second. Once we're both done, it goes to my final editor, Ashley Daoust, then I format and publish. I'll throw it up as soon as it's ready, and right now it looks like I'm going to beat my March 2013 deadline (I published Villain on 3/28/12).
This version will come out of the gate after Ashley's edit so we won't experience the problems from the first book, where readers found a ton of stupid grammatical errors. I didn't expect anyone to read the thing, so I didn't think to worry about a professional edit. My mistake.
Erik Von Lehman is hard at work on the cover, and I'm including his first sketch of some of the interior art. I just love how he draws Blackjack and Apogee.
My content editor, Josh Hoade, is through the first act and working on the second. Once we're both done, it goes to my final editor, Ashley Daoust, then I format and publish. I'll throw it up as soon as it's ready, and right now it looks like I'm going to beat my March 2013 deadline (I published Villain on 3/28/12).
This version will come out of the gate after Ashley's edit so we won't experience the problems from the first book, where readers found a ton of stupid grammatical errors. I didn't expect anyone to read the thing, so I didn't think to worry about a professional edit. My mistake.
Erik Von Lehman is hard at work on the cover, and I'm including his first sketch of some of the interior art. I just love how he draws Blackjack and Apogee.
More in a bit!
Friday, October 19, 2012
Editing is coming along
Working hard on the edit, so in the meantime here's a few links to the reviews. 41 from Amazon and 20-something ratings from Pubit (Barnes & Noble).
http://www.amazon.com/Blackjack-Villain-The-Series-ebook/dp/B007PV3QW6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350668839&sr=8-1&keywords=blackjack+villain
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15724648-blackjack-villain
All those good reviews are setting a high bar for book two...
http://www.amazon.com/Blackjack-Villain-The-Series-ebook/dp/B007PV3QW6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350668839&sr=8-1&keywords=blackjack+villain
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15724648-blackjack-villain
All those good reviews are setting a high bar for book two...
Saturday, September 1, 2012
First draft to Blackjack Wayward done!
That's right. The first draft is done and ready for edit. It's quite a mess, but I think there's a good core there, and the action is out of hand, perhaps topping Villain.
The process is now as follows, make a heavy edit on the second pass, then have the two editors go at it. Then publish and start on the third one, which is already plotted out and partially outlined.
I know some of you guys are eager to get your hands on the second book. At this pace, it looks like December we'll be ready.
Thanks again for all your support!
The process is now as follows, make a heavy edit on the second pass, then have the two editors go at it. Then publish and start on the third one, which is already plotted out and partially outlined.
I know some of you guys are eager to get your hands on the second book. At this pace, it looks like December we'll be ready.
Thanks again for all your support!
Friday, June 15, 2012
People like it!
Nine reviews as of this morning with an average of 4.444 stars out of a possible 5. I'm humbled by and thankful to all the kind reviewers (even those that called me BeGuer - it's a "Q" people :P).
I'm hard at work on book 2, almost 220 pages into the first draft, and if anyone is wondering, it looks like about the end of 2012 when I'll be completely done with all the drafts and subsequent edits at my present pace.
There are also two more series percolating in my head. One is futuristic space opera stuff, inspired by Niven, Asimov and Roddenberry (oh, and Clint Eastwood...). I don't have this one in my head fully, save the leading character, and the over-arching plot thread. It's intended to be something more serialized, shorter than Villain, but with the same Beguer style.
The other comes courtesy of my latest reading of George R. R. Martin, and a wealth of other inspirations from Weiss/Hickman's Dragonlance saga to Cornwell's Arthurian tales, to Robert E. Howard. This idea is sort of an overreaction to watching HBO's excellent Game of Thrones series and subsequently starting to read the first book. Part of what's motivating me here is a prevalence of late-middle ages technology and socio-economy in describing the time periods of much of the fantasy I'm seeing published or on TV/Movies. I miss the old sword and sandal epics of the fifties and sixties as well as some of the older heroes that led to everything we're doing now, like Conan and John Carter. I know gleaming metal plate armor is cool looking, as are massed charges of destriers laden with heavy armored lance bearing knights. But it seems that most of what I'm seeing these days revolves around a European pseudo-feudal political system with clean castles, and heavy-handed laws to protect everyone. I recall the joy of reading Howard's The Scarlet Citadel and Lieber's Ill Met in Lankhmar and having a feeling that the ground was muddy, and there was little to protect our protagonist but his guile and the edge of his sword. Now, I know a lot of Roman stuff is out there, including great books by Valerio Massimo Manfredi and Simon Scarrow, but these are governed by the rules of history, and can't venture in the the shadowy realm of fantasy. I mean, you're not going to see a coiled serpent rise out of the Rubicon as Julius Ceasar and Legio XIII crossed it. Besides, I mean to go back farther, perhaps inspired by a period far back as the Uruk period of Mesopotamia, but with an original world and lore that I'm already putting together.
But, Blackjack Wayward (as it's tentatively called so far) is next, and I'm already making plans for the third and fourth books.
I'm hard at work on book 2, almost 220 pages into the first draft, and if anyone is wondering, it looks like about the end of 2012 when I'll be completely done with all the drafts and subsequent edits at my present pace.
There are also two more series percolating in my head. One is futuristic space opera stuff, inspired by Niven, Asimov and Roddenberry (oh, and Clint Eastwood...). I don't have this one in my head fully, save the leading character, and the over-arching plot thread. It's intended to be something more serialized, shorter than Villain, but with the same Beguer style.
The other comes courtesy of my latest reading of George R. R. Martin, and a wealth of other inspirations from Weiss/Hickman's Dragonlance saga to Cornwell's Arthurian tales, to Robert E. Howard. This idea is sort of an overreaction to watching HBO's excellent Game of Thrones series and subsequently starting to read the first book. Part of what's motivating me here is a prevalence of late-middle ages technology and socio-economy in describing the time periods of much of the fantasy I'm seeing published or on TV/Movies. I miss the old sword and sandal epics of the fifties and sixties as well as some of the older heroes that led to everything we're doing now, like Conan and John Carter. I know gleaming metal plate armor is cool looking, as are massed charges of destriers laden with heavy armored lance bearing knights. But it seems that most of what I'm seeing these days revolves around a European pseudo-feudal political system with clean castles, and heavy-handed laws to protect everyone. I recall the joy of reading Howard's The Scarlet Citadel and Lieber's Ill Met in Lankhmar and having a feeling that the ground was muddy, and there was little to protect our protagonist but his guile and the edge of his sword. Now, I know a lot of Roman stuff is out there, including great books by Valerio Massimo Manfredi and Simon Scarrow, but these are governed by the rules of history, and can't venture in the the shadowy realm of fantasy. I mean, you're not going to see a coiled serpent rise out of the Rubicon as Julius Ceasar and Legio XIII crossed it. Besides, I mean to go back farther, perhaps inspired by a period far back as the Uruk period of Mesopotamia, but with an original world and lore that I'm already putting together.
But, Blackjack Wayward (as it's tentatively called so far) is next, and I'm already making plans for the third and fourth books.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
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