Look what arrived in the mail today
Included: eleven copies of the new edition of Immortal and bookmarks and promotional Moo cards for Immortal AND Hellenic Immortal.
So it’s been a good day.
April 2, 2012
Promotional purposes
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March 9, 2012
IMMORTAL on Kindle
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Kindle
Just a quick note to let everyone know the second edition of Immortal is now up on the Amazon site for the Kindle. The print edition is not yet listed there, and for some reason the reviews of the prior edition have not rolled over to the new edition, but we’re getting there.
March 8, 2012
IMMORTAL: happy second edition day
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Run right over to the publisher’s site
Yes, readers, Immortal is back on the marketplace! You can buy it right now from The Writer’s Coffee Shop Publishing House in either e-book or print format by clicking this link right here. Listings on Amazon and ebook purveyors such as Apple are still pending (Amazon is being a pain as I type this, but when is Amazon not a pain?) but why deal with a middle-man when you can get it directly from the publisher?
A guest blog and a giveaway
To celebrate today’s release, I’d like to direct you to TNBBC’s The Next Best Book Blog, hosted by Lori Hettler (@TNBBC, whom you should all be following) for a guest blog penned by yours truly and an ebook giveaway.
Click here to stop by, and be sure to comment to enter to win your own copy.
Press release
Also, please follow the link below, read and share the press release!
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March 7, 2012
IMMORTAL review from Litstack
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A nice review
I urge all of you who are hearing about Immortal for the first time to avail yourselves of Google or Bing or whatever your search engine of choice is to look up reviews for the novel over the past year. There are quite a few, and since none of them are bad or negative, I feel confident you’ll like what you hear.
Today, I’m going to point you to the review of Bryan Camp, who originally wrote about Immortal for a now-defunct site called The Best Damn Creative Writing Blog. It is now carried by Litstack, and the team there was kind enough to bring it out to the front page with a new preamble in anticipation of tomorrow’s second edition rollout.
February 7, 2012
IMMORTAL now available for preordering
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New edition rollout begins
As of today, you can preorder your copy of the new edition of Immortal, which is set for a release date of March 8, 2012. This is to pre-order it directly from the publisher, which as we all know is the most awesome way possible to buy something.
Should I buy this…
…if I already own a copy of Immortal?
Yes!
- It will have a cool new cover that you can’t resist having
- It will include On Gods and Succubi, which will NOT be included in Hellenic Immortal
- It went through a new edit, so if you want a version of the text where the word “really” doesn’t appear as often and there are fewer commas, it’s a MUST
…if I don’t already own a copy of Immortal?
Yes!
- What the hell is wrong with you?
February 1, 2012
My author page
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The Writer’s Coffee Shop Publishing House author page
As of today you can find me listed at the Writer’s Club Coffee Shop Publishing House’s author page.
Also as of today I will be calling them TWCS_PH so as to avoid carpal-tunnel.
Book pages
Also up today are the book pages for both Immortal and Hellenic Immortal. You will find there the publication dates, the pre-order dates, the new covers, and the book summaries.
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January 16, 2012
Hellenic Immortal cover draft
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Appropriately cryptic
Unlike the last cover I showed you (for Immortal) the cover for Hellenic Immortal is likely to be something you’re not going to fully “get” right away, in the sense that it’s depicting something from the contents of the book. Thematically, the new cover is linked to the previous cover in obvious ways and still retains the “ancient man in modern world” motif. I hope you find it interesting.
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January 9, 2012
Immortal new cover draft
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New design
This is a draft, but it’s pretty close to what the new cover of Immortal is going to look like. More language might be added to the front (“New edition” and/or “Bonus short story: On Gods and Succubi”, or not) and the back cover language and layout hasn’t been dealt with yet. But the hard work is done. And now, on to Hellenic Immortal.
December 14, 2011
Immortal updates
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New publisher
As I explained here, Immortal is changing publishing houses, and Hellenic Immortal is on board with the same publisher. That publisher? The Writer’s Coffee Shop Publishing House, henceforth known as TWCS because that’s a mouthful of a name.
I met some folks from TWCS at the Indie Book Event over the summer, and honestly I think the only reason it took this long to inquire about working with them was that I thought they only handled romance.
You will find that TWCS has a website! And marketing! And promotions! And you will likely find that the least expensive place to buy their books is directly from their website, so keep that link on-hand.
Publishing dates
The new edition of Immortal will be available February 9, 2012. This edition will have a new cover design (about which you will hear more about just as soon as we figure out what the hell the new cover should look like) and it will be marketed as having a bonus chapter/teaser for Hellenic Immortal. I would LOVE it if you, a fan who has already read Immortal, picked up a new copy of the book. But I’m going to be honest with you: the bonus chapter is the same thing I shared with you at the beginning of the summer. You can read it for free right now here.
The publishing date for Hellenic Immortal is April 5, 2012.
Keep in mind these dates are written in very dark pencil, not ink. Ahead still is: editing; cover design for both books; navigating the mayhem likely to ensue when attempting to issue a new edition of a book from a different publisher than the one who published the old edition, which is going to wreak havoc with online retailers.
Now then: anyone want to pitch a cover idea to me? I’m open to anything.
December 7, 2011
Fixer: a free chapter
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Because I can’t help myself
I don’t think I will ever get used to the delay. I’ve been an Internet writer/blogger/columnist/tweeter/whateverthefuckwecallitnow for most of my adult life, and the great thing about being… that… is the immediate gratification that derives from trotting something out to readers immediately.
Novel writing, on the other hand, means accepting that a finished book won’t be seen by readers that are not in my immediate family for years.
Fixer
Today’s example of this is Fixer. I wrote this book between Immortal and Hellenic Immortal, which means it has been lying around in some completed form for at least five years. It needed an edit though, badly, and so I left it alone while busying myself with various screenwriting endeavors and all matters concerning Adam the immortal. I finally got a chance to re-finish Fixer only recently, and that editing concluded a few days ago.
And there is a very good chance this book won’t debut until 2013. Because that’s just the way this has to work.
Sample chapter
But since I went through all the trouble to rewrite it, I’d really like you to read it, so to accommodate my need for interest and feedback and your (hopefully) need for new material from me, I’m going to introduce you to the main character by bringing out chapter one of Fixer. If you read it and hate me for not posting the remaining 98,000 words of the novel immediately, I understand. Not that that wouldn’t be a really excellent reaction.
