Another Year of Worldbuilding

Worldbuilders ends tomorrow. I just posted my last set of pledges, and I'm feeling pretty good about it.

You see, every year I donate all the profits from my book sales to Worldbuilders, because Pat Rothfuss is awesome, and because Heifer International is awesome, and because helping them out makes me feel pretty awesome too.

This time around, that came to just over $2,530.00. I know, not really a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but hey, it's just over double what I brought in last year.

When I think about how The Will of the Elements started - as a story that I told my fiance every night while we were a state apart - it kind of boggles the mind. I mean, that's like 5 cows and 5 water buffaloes for people who need them in 2 years. 

From a story. 

That I related over the phone. 

Two hours at a time.

You know what? That does feel kind of awesome.

So, to anyone out there reading this, thank you for taking a chance on my books. Thank you to the people who reviewed them, to the people who recommended them to friends and family, and to the people who kept me having fun along the way. And thank you for helping to make the world a better and more awesome place.

Wow, that sounded kind of final... don't worry though! I've got stories and surprises aplenty to come. Maybe I'll even post something more than once every six months!

A Year in Retrospect

So 2012 was a big year for me. Promotions, video games, YouTube videos... Oh, and I wrote a science fiction trilogy.

A good year, all around.

Just as a quick recap, over the last quarter of the year my book sales have raised at least $802 for Worldbuilders (since I won't see sales reports for anything other than Amazon for a little while).

So for those of you who have been with me through it all, those of you who are new to the world of the elements, and even the random people who ended up here by mistake, here's a short story for you.

Enjoy!

The Shape of Things

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.

Promises, Promises

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.