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.
Book 3 is coming along pretty nicely. My wonderful wife is making up the cover art. At least, when she's not playing Starcraft 2 and being wildly entertaining. (She talks to the units and scolds them for not doing what she thinks they should be doing. And she doesn't realize that she's doing it. It's adorable.)
I'm still trying to cut down on the smiling. And eye rolling. My characters were apparently smiling and rolling their eyes non-stop in the last 2 books...
But a nice, solid 18k word day, including some massive reorganization of the timeline. I played it pretty loose with that in book 2, especially toward the end... trying to avoid hand waving and misdirection this time around. But yes, the three point of views have finally split into their own stories, so I can literally do whatever I want to them and NO-ONE WILL KNOW. MWAHAHHAAHAH!
Ahem. That is to say that yes, the story is actually on track. Not that I ever doubted that it would be. Nope. Not even a little bit...
