Sorry for the lack of updates, been dealing with some personal things that you're probably not interested in because you came here to find out about my books. I assume. I mean, I guess you could just like my name... or something... Book 3 is nearly done with Phase Three of beta (that's the final phase). I figure that since I'm so late already I'll go ahead and set the release date for December 9, the one year anniversary of Wind-Scarred. Because, as a math major, I'm contractually obligated to like symmetry. And here's a promotional video for my upcoming release:
Of course, this offer is open to any and all of you who have reviewed my books. Just send me a message, let me know who you are, and I will give you a copy of Child of Lightning and put your name into a song. And anything else that I may or may not have promised to do... Finally, sales figures for last month. I sold a grand total of 19 copies of book 2, Water-Seer. I also got the chance to meet Patrick Rothfuss in person at his San Francisco book signing...
...and picked up a copy of his charity calendar, which brings the total donated to Worldbuilders so far to $208! That's like one and three quarters goats! So, to everyone who purchased a copy of Water-Seer in October, thank you. You and me, we're making the world a better place. Thanks again for reading, and sorry for being a lazy bum. Pass the video along if you feel like it. Or, you know, whatever.
So apparently I'm bad at posting updates. Also, keeping promises. So here's what's going on: For the last third of this year I'm donating 100% of my book profits to Patrick Rothfuss's charity, Worldbuilders. As such, I'll be posting my sales stats to keep myself honest.
Source
Units Sold
Amazon
28
Barnes & Noble
10
Ibooks
2
Smashwords
1
So 41 sales of book 2! I'm not counting book 1 because it's free. We'll pretend I make $3 off of each of those sales (it's actually a little less, but who's counting?). It comes out to $123 for the month of September. So congratulations to everyone who bought book 2 last month! You've helped make people's lives better. Oh yeah, I'm also still writing a book, huh? Well, the good news is I finished it, and finished editing it. The bad news is...I didn't like it. So I've cut out the parts I had problems with and am now rewriting large swaths of the book. Alright, it's only about 7 chapters, but I like the word 'swath'. You'd think that I'd have learned my lesson about promises, but I can safely say that this book will, in fact, be finished. So thanks again for reading my books and dropping by my blog. I'll keep you posted. Darn it. Promises.
Some quick updates: I finished the first draft of the book. It was horrible. I'm fixing it now, and revising my time line for a mid-September release. So if you've been waiting for the book...I'm really sorry. I intend to release the book...well, not when it's DONE, but at least when it's (hopefully) good. In other news, I was recently interviewed by the Bay Area News Group for an article on self-publishing! You should check it out, they came out and spent an hour taking pictures of me in my writing cave. Weirdest experience ever. And now, to top it all off, here's a picture of my cats.
20 minutes of just passing and shooting nearly killed me... I apparently
took water polo for granted. At least I can still skip a backhand shot
cross pool...
In other news, 123k words, and I still have 8
chapters to write and another 5 that need a full re-write... which makes
this my longest book. As a series, I think I'll be pushing 380-400k
words. But I've heard the first million are a warm up... and I intend to
sprint.
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