This is a very short post

Still alive. Still writing. Have some new stuff coming up soon, but in the meantime my wife and I will be playing some Pathfinder starting this weekend. Expect stories. Ooooh yes...expect stories.

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!

Child of Lightning

One year ago today, I started a little trilogy called The Will of the Elements. I figure it's about time I finished that up.

The Will of the Elements, Book 3: Child of Lightning is now available on Amazon and Smashwords.

Thanks again to everyone who has given my books a try. I know you have a lot of options when deciding what to read, and I just cannot even begin to convey how much I appreciate that you took a chance on the stuff I wrote.

Here's another little promotional video.

Well, I haven't been sufficiently discouraged from writing yet... So I guess I'll keep doing it. Stay tuned, I have more stories to tell.

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.

Sundry Happenings

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.

Book 3 Cover Art Preview!

Courtesy of my lovely wife, cover art!

Now to finish that book...

Book 3 Update

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.

Book 3 Progress

I guess I should post something about my progress on book 3...or something...


Anyways, Child of Lightning is coming along nicely. It's all plotted out and broken into chapters (at the moment there are 70 of them). I am writing full time. And by full time, I mean whenever I'm not at work. Or swimming. Or playing video games. Or wasting time while I think of a reason to not write... Look, I'm sure that I'm spending some time writing. I anticipate it'll be done (i.e. edited and ready for release) at some point in August. The Kirsten O'Donnell chapters are pretty fun, if I do say so myself...

Thanks for giving my books a try, I'll post more updates as they come.